Percona XtraDB Cluster: Our Commitment to Open Source High Availability

At Percona, we’ve always been dedicated to providing robust, open source high availability solutions that meet our users’ evolving needs. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) stands as a testament to this commitment, offering a highly available and scalable solution for your MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL deployments.

We understand that database high availability is critical for your operations, and we’ve invested significantly in PXC over the years to ensure it remains a leading choice. Our engineering teams have consistently delivered innovations and improvements, focusing on performance, stability, and ease of use.

This ongoing development includes:

• Continuous enhancements: We’ve regularly released updates for PXC, introducing new features, optimizing existing functionalities, and addressing critical issues to ensure a smooth and reliable experience.
• Broad compatibility: PXC is designed to maintain strong binary compatibility across MySQL, Percona Server for MySQL, and PXC itself. This ensures that you have flexibility and confidence when integrating PXC into your existing environments, including switching to use MySQL or Percona Server (with or without Group Replication) in the future without having to rebuild the node’s dataset or perform any schema change.
• Driving innovation: Percona is at the forefront of MySQL innovation. We actively contribute to and release new features and improvements for MySQL, often making these available in experimental repositories. All source code, including features that might be considered “pro” in other offerings, is publicly available (https://github.com/percona/galera/tree/4.x-8.0).

It’s important to remember that Percona XtraDB Cluster has its own independent development trajectory. We have long ensured that our version of Galera is distinct and unconstrained, allowing us to rapidly innovate and respond to the needs of the community. This independence guarantees that PXC will continue to evolve and remain a strong, reliable, and open source high-availability solution, regardless of changes in the broader ecosystem.

We are committed to the future of PXC and will continue to provide the best possible open source high-availability solution for your critical database needs.