Percona
Percona is an American company based in Durham, North Carolina and the developer of a number of open source software projects for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and RocksDB users. The company’s revenue of around $25 million a year is derived from support, consultancy and managed services of database systems.
The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko.
Open source software
Percona maintains a GitHub repository for their open source software, which can also be downloaded from the Percona website.

MySQL database software:
- Percona Server for MySQL
- Percona XtraDB Cluster
- Percona XtraBackup
- Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster
MongoDB database software:
- Percona Server for MongoDB
- Percona Operator for MongoDB
- Percona Backup for MongoDB
PostgreSQL database distribution:
- Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL
- Percona Operator for PostgreSQL
Database Management Tools
- Percona Monitoring and Management
- Percona Toolkit
Other information
The company’s founders, Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko co-authored with Baron Schwartz the book High Performance MySQL (3rd edition), published by O’Reilly.