Percona

Percona is an open source database software and services company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. The company employs between 250 and 499 people and offers support for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes Operators, and Percona Toolkit.

Percona focuses on helping businesses transition smoothly after MySQL 5.7 end-of-life, with enterprise-ready open source products designed to scale, innovate, and deploy databases anywhere. The company's software is performance-oriented, secure, scalable, and built for high availability, with offerings that reduce risks and lower operational costs across any infrastructure.

The company's services include Big Data Analytics and Managed Services. Percona's big data expertise covers IT security and MongoDB, while its managed services expertise covers hosting and cloud. Percona works with small businesses, medium businesses, and enterprise or corporate clients across software and IT services, transportation and logistics, finance, and fintech industries. Its portfolio includes clients in the IT, retail, and financial industries.

Percona is led by CEO Ann Schlemmer, founder Peter Zaitsev, and CTO Vadim Tkachenko, who bring expertise in open source databases, scalability, performance tuning, and software engineering.

Percona holds a 5.0 Google rating from three reviews, with reviewers noting that Percona is "better than MySQL" and describing the company as a great place to work.