an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message percona is an open source software company specializing in mysql mongodb and other open source database support consulting managed services and training . the company was founded in 2006 by peter zaitsev and vadim tkachenko 1 2 and is headquartered in raleigh north carolina . the company launched a mysql backup service in june 2014 as part of its managed services . 3 the company contributes to the open source mysql community through its blog site the mysql performance blog . 4 the company also hosts annual open source database user conferences 5 named percona live in silicon valley and europe . the company s founders have also published the o reilly book high performance mysql . 6 the company builds and maintains free open source mysql software for percona server mysql and mariadb users . percona server is a variant of the mysql relational database management system and is a drop in mysql replacement . 7 the company also produces open source software including percona xtradb cluster 8 percona xtrabackup and percona toolkit . external links edit official website references edit the percona team peter zaitsev . percona . the percona team tom basil . percona . aslett matt 2014 07 10 . percona launches mysql backup service following clustering and management updates . 451research . com . retrieved 2014 10 24 . mysql performance blog percona s mysql & innodb performance and scalability blog . percona . preimesberger chris 2014 04 04 . percona aims at mysql leadership by hosting conference . eweek . retrieved 2014 10 24 . baron schwartz ; peter zaitsev ; vadim tkachenko march 2012 . high performance mysql 3rd edition . o reilly media . isbn 978 1 4493 1428 6 . percona server . percona . aslett matt 2012 04 10 . percona launches xtradb cluster for mysql database high availability . 451research . com . retrieved 2014 10 24 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title percona & oldid 744014145 categories mysqlhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2014all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 16 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view