Percona Server for MySQL Reviews

Summary: Despite being a free and open source software, it has helped us with the implementation of some business software that we previously used with proprietary software, which has helped us to save money, in addition, Percona Server can be fully implemented in the cloud, which has been very useful for the migration of some products.

Positive: Installation and use are very easy, it is open source and I can know its development internally. The learning curve is short. Percona XtraDB cluster migrations become easy thanks to this software. It is equipped with security functions and can be used through the cloud.
We were able to achieve better performance with Percona Server, best of all, it is free.

Negative: I could only add as a disadvantage, the need to expand the documentation, and the support for large-scale applications.

Summary: Considering It's open-source and free, we are happy to use it. Also, Percona Server can be fully deployed on the Google cloud that is very helpful.

Positive: We were able to achieve better performance using Percona Server. Costly features are made available free of cost. The Installation of the Server is easy and fast.

Negative: The Documentation and video guide of the product needs improvement.

Summary: Using Percona Server for MySQL in companies is to have a robust database with many features that meet expectations
companies in the short, medium and long term.

Positive: 1. All features made available for free.
2. Redeployment of upstream resources.
3. Evolution of resources.
4. Frequent benchmarking tests helping the community in best practices.
5. Community support.

Negative: So far I haven't found anything that could discourage use.

Summary: It was very smooth. Didn’t face any challenges installing it. The support structure was awesome. Overall, good product.

Positive: Its ease of use. Support is very handy. Pricing is reasonable. We use this for lot of transactional workloads. It is scaling well for our needs.

Negative: There isn’t any thing I didn’t like. I am sure Percona will continue to improve the pricing.

Summary: Documentation is crystal clear.

Positive: Amazing product, stability, documentation and the performance is very nice.

Negative: Nothing , seriously is the best engine currently on the market.

Summary: Percona Server for MSQL is the only DBMS I use for all my projects and clients. It's robust, reliable, and easy to set up and maintain.

Positive: I really enjoy the tools that are provided FREE with Percona. It makes backups, resource tuning, and performance analytics easy and saves me so much time. It's also very reliable and I've never had an issue, even in the event of a crash.

Negative: I haven't revisited XtraDB Cluster, but it was a little cumbersome when I first started. But setting up a slave and falling back to it was pretty easy and straight forward.

Summary: It’s really easy to troubleshoot and perform maintenance using Percona tools.

Positive: We have been using Percona products and it has significantly improved our operations with reduced productions issues and improved performance.

Negative: Learning new product documentation .
Multi cluster replication is sometime confusing.

Summary: I used it for its free trial and I think it's an incredibly simple product to get started with. If you're learning or just finding a drop-in replacement, this is what you want.

Positive: Percona's service is incredibly intuitive and easy to work with. I have not had any downtime. Sharding is never a problem.

Negative: There is a price that is more expensive than setting up your own server....but that is a headache.

Summary: Well documented, high quality solution. I wouldn't think of using a stock MySQL distribution. To me MySQL means Percona MySQL. When I've needed it the Percona support engineers have been subject matter experts and quickly identified our problems and provided solutions.

Positive: Required enhancements to MySQL. Even without the improvements made to MySQL distribution, the tooling around backups, replication etc is worth using over the standard distribution alone.

Negative: None that I can think of. Using Percona Server for MySQL makes it basically MySQL++.

Summary: Really awesome for working with SQL. I used it for free trial and it is just awesome. I will recommend it to my friends and staff.

Positive: I really like the server which is very useful implementing SQL tasks.
I recommend it to everyone, really appreciate able. I used it for free trial and it is just awesome.

Negative: Everything is awesome, I didn't found and cons. I can only give 5 star for working with it in the free trial.

Summary: My experience with this is very good throughout and i would recommend everyone to use it. Though it's different from oracle mysql tools but it's also easy to use.

Positive: 1. Good blogs
2. Free enterprise level
3. Easy to use
4. Design is good
5. Pricing is also good

Negative: I have nothing in my hand to dislike it.
It's different from oracle mysql enterprise tool but i will recommend it 100%.

Summary: Percona Server For MySQL is used all over the world. It's doing additional testing which gives the added level of stability that we need for massive volumes of processing. It has other multiple features that provide high performance.

Positive: Easy to use and install.
It's open Source.
It's easy migration path to Percona XtraDB cluster.
It's quite secure.
Cloud Features.

Negative: No cons, It works really well and performs great with security.

Summary: The product is a great deal for the bucks we pay and there can be improvements in future but for now it does the job pretty well.

Positive: I personally loved the product and I am using it personally to develop my MySQL databases and to my work stuff.

Negative: I didn't find any cons yet with use cases. The server get slow a bit when you are hitting it multiple times simultaneously but that's an obvious lag.

Summary: Ever since I started to use this, I really liked it as it made my task easy. MySQL server offers advantages over other databases like the ease of use and advanced database functions and has the ability to handle complexity at the enterprise level. Percona Server is capable of monitoring MySQL in greater detail, capturing statistics that are otherwise hidden.

Positive: Percona server is best for database solutions. It is faster and safer than other servers. Working excellently with our applications.

Negative: There were lots of useful functions depending on what you wanted. It is a powerful tool with lots of inbuilt operations, and that could be quite overwhelming for a beginner.

Summary: Great server to work on with added features compared to Oracle MySQL.

Positive: Easy to install and config Percona server software.
XtraDB engine which is a default one helps in storage purpose.

Negative: It would be great if the response time is lowered for Percona support tickets.