Actian Zen vs. Percona Server

Actian Zen

9 Reviews and Ratings

Percona Server

12 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Actian Zen	Score6 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	HCL Zen Edge Data Management (formerly Actian Zen) is a NoSQL and SQL (fully ANSI compliant) embedded database that runs on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, in VMs and Containers with AES 256-bit encryption. Version footprints range from 5MB (client only) to 50 MB (embedded client-server) to 200MB (client-server, SaaS-ready) and support up to 64TB tables. NoETL between versions. Use C/C++/C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Delphi, or Basic and connect to any ODBC/JDBC, ASP.Net source or…	$100 one-time fee per installation
Percona Server	Score9.7 out of 10	N/A	Percona Server for MySQL is a free, compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL. Percona states it provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. Boasting over 5,300,000 downloads, Percona Server’s self-tuning algorithms and support for high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability Percona Server for MySQL delivers enterprise-grade features and higher uptime, along with a number of key benefits that…	N/A

Pricing

Actian Zen

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Pricing Offerings
Actian Zen	Percona Server
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Actian Zen	Percona Server
Considered Both Products	HCLSoftware No answer on this topic	Percona No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	100% Would buy again 5 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	100% Delivers good value for the price 5 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	100% Happy with the feature set 5 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
No answers on this topic	100% Implementation went as expected 5 Answers

Best Alternatives
	Actian Zen	Percona Server
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	MongoDB Atlas Score7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	No answers on this topic	Azure Database Score8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	Google Cloud SQL Score8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Actian Zen	Percona Server
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (4 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.7 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Actian Zen	Percona Server
Likelihood to Recommend	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona Percona Server for MySQL covers 100% of our requirements in terms of our OLTP traffic and provides the High Availability levels required through a typical primary and 2 replica's using semi-synchronous replication. We're able to scale our writes using sharding, but a true distributed database would be a great option on top of this. In terms of OLAP traffic, we leverage columns stores available, but Percona Server fairs well Douglas Doo Principle Database Architect Read full review
Pros	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona Faster than other server solutions Installation and configuration process is easy from the user's standpoint Easy to learn and good support Incentivized Jose Manuel Ortega Software Engineer && Security researcher Read full review
Cons	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona Better documentation A better UI Dushyant Pathak Software Engineer Read full review
Usability	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona It is easy to install and use. Using it along with Percona Monitoring and Management makes it even easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona We are using opensource so we have not used customer support. Anil Yadav Senior Engineering Manager (Site Reliability Engineering) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona Performance and stability sets Percona Server for MySQL apart from the rest. Percona embraces the upstream version and contributes towards the upstream version making MySQL stronger on two fronts and thus having a much larger community. Many quality contributions have been made by Percona into the base code. Percona provides great tools to support Percona Server for MySQL and this makes the monitoring and management easier Douglas Doo Principle Database Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	HCLSoftware No answers on this topic	Percona At the performance level, it maintains and even improves other open-source databases such as MariaDB or some commercial ones such as Oracle. If we compare it with MySQL, we could have up to 50% improvement in performance. For some small companies or startups, the price of the complete solution and the support can be a bit high. Incentivized Jose Manuel Ortega Software Engineer && Security researcher Read full review
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