FirebirdSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL

It is able to handle simultaneous connections when using the embedded software version. It is well suited for organizations looking for standalone servers that can handle high data volumes and still perform well and which is also cost-effective database management system especially when they are working on a low budget.

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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

• Performance is really fast.
• It is portable and easy to take back ups.
• Its open n source and free.

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• Faster than other server solutions
• Installation and configuration process is easy from the user's standpoint
• Easy to learn and good support

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• Documentation.
• No GUI tool to view data.
• Slow via remote access.

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• Better documentation
• A better UI

Because it is free and usually zero maintenance. Just the issue of more difficult format updates in the future lower the rating a bit.

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Usability has improved by unifying the architecture. The only thing's missing out of the box is a simple GUI DB tool for viewing DB contents and maybe running some SQL queries.

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It is easy to install and use. Using it along with Percona Monitoring and Management makes it even easier to use.

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This is an open source project. It provides a fair amount of free documentation and I think forums somewhere...

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We are using opensource so we have not used customer support.

Even somebody just starting to use RDBMS himself should get it working quickly, at least if he's got a GUI tool and some SQL knowledge.

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Because it is having Open Source License and easy to deploy on windows and linux environment

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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

• Cost effective saving us from paid relational database.
• Community support.
• Efficiency in handling simultaneous connections.

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• 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.

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