4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Percona Server for MySQL first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We specifically run percona-server because it's basically the enterprise version of MySQL, and percona makes some great tools.”
endorse · production · paulfurtado · 2016-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even highly optimized MySQL installs with FusionIO cards struggled to keep up before we switched to Aurora.”
regret · production · cookiecaper · 2016-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This was less to do with technical reasons and more to do with legal liability risk as Oracle could at any moment force licensing”
neutral · production · LinuxBender · 2025-02-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in several critical tables which are pretty large (Percona server, too), and so far I haven't heard about any serious performance degradation”
neutral · production · kgeist · 2022-01-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?