Percona Server for MySQL is a

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of the

MySQL MySQL () is an Open-source software, open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A rel ...

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created by

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 der ...

. It is similar to MySQL Enterprise from

Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...

. Percona Server for MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is a free, fully compatible drop in replacement for Oracle

. The software includes a number of scalability, availability, security and backup features only available in MySQL's commercial Enterprise edition. The software includes

XtraDB Percona XtraDB is a storage engine for the MariaDB and Percona Server databases, and is intended as a drop-in replacement to InnoDB, which is the default engine in MySQL MySQL () is an Open-source software, open-source relational database man ...

, an enhanced distribution of the InnoDB Storage Engine. The developers aim to retain close compatibility to the official MySQL releases, while focusing on performance and increased visibility into server operations.

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