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Percona Server for MySQL Reviews & Insights

Score9.7 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

Percona Server for MySQL Reviews

5 Reviews

Great solution for managing your MySQL database

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Percona Server for MySQL along with other solutions oriented to managing NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and others oriented to documents such as ElasticSearch.This tool complements other tools in order to complete the lifecycle of applications and measure their performance in different environments.

Pros

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

Cons

  • The performance and throughput can be improved in big databases
  • Documentation for the end user can be improved
  • The server time response can be improved since it can be a bit slow when you are doing multiple requests in parallel

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a good tool to carry out tests that measure the level of effectiveness of the database and it behaves well when, at the project level, we need to process large volumes of data in a massive way.

It is not an optimal solution for applications oriented to the distribution of data between different machines.

One of the best MySQL servers I have used

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Percona Server for MySQL is being used by the technology department for storing information regarding our customers, products, and other entities.

Pros

  • High availability
  • Great security
  • Enterprise-level features in the fully open-source version
  • Easy to install and use

Cons

  • UX can be improved
  • Needs better documentation
  • Pricing can be a bit of an issue

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for setting up reliable and secure database servers with all the advantages of an RDBMS.
Like every RDBMS, horizontal scaling could be a problem for Percona.
Vetted Review
Percona Server for MySQL
1 year of experience

Easy scalability and deployment

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We migrated to Percona Server for MySQL from another database solution, Postgres. I lead a startup team, housed within a larger organization, and presently Percona Server for MySQL is used for our team. We are working on an EdTech product, and Percona Server for MySQL is used to store, analyze, and work with user information. Our aim is fast querying, easy deployment, and good support.

Pros

  • Excellent performance
  • Fully free and open source
  • Additional tools also available for easy expansion

Cons

  • Better documentation
  • A better UI

Likelihood to Recommend

A modern day MySQL/RDBMS solution, where scalability is a pain point, logging is critical, performance is a bottleneck, and you're going to mostly work with the cloud. While it's relatively newer as opposed to more traditional offerings, it is catching up fast in features and support

Percona MySQL Server

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Percona Server for MySQL is being used as a primary OLTP database in my current organization. We are using it across the whole organization (across the group of companies). Percona Server for MySQL is solving our problems to store and retrieve data in a high transactional environment.

Pros

  • Feature Rich: Percona Server for MySQL always has some additional features on top of MySQL.
  • Performance improvements: Additional performance
  • Integration with Native and Community tooling: It supports all native and community developed tooling for MySQL

Cons

  • Regressive performance test: Currently we are relying on MySQL's load testing. Percona should have its load testing result.

Likelihood to Recommend

Percona Server for MySQL is best suited for any RDBMS workload(OLTP/OLAP). It's a drop-in replacement of MySQL. As of now, it lacks inbuild HA feature.

High Performance and Availability with Percona Server for MySQL

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Percona Server for MySQL is being used across our whole organization. We are running 50+ primary instances in our data center with DR replica's running on compute instances inside GCP in 2 different regions. Percona Server for MySQL solves our need for well-tested and stable MySQL instances with Percona doing additional testing to the upstream releases which gives that added level of stability that we need for the massive volumes of processing as well as the required performance in sharded instances.

Pros

  • Performance
  • Stability
  • Additional Variables for in-depth monitoring
  • Easy migration path to Percona XtraDB Cluster

Cons

  • A distributed database offering to scale writes with native sharding. Currently we make use of sharding managed by the application to scale writes. There is the option to place ProxySQL in front of the shards, but we need a true cloud native distributed option with an easy migration path. I would not say this is negative in terms of Percona Server for MySQL, but if Percona had a distributed database offering at some stage, we would follow Percona.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.