See how Percona stacks up

• Server
• Backup
• Components
• Monitoring &
  Management
• Kubernetes
  Operator
• DBaaS
• Support and
  Services

Server Features	Percona Server for MySQL	MySQL Community Server	MySQL Enterprise Server
Open source, freely available software
High availability
MyRocks storage engine
Audit
Encryption functions
Data at Rest Encryption	With Integrations: AWS, KMS, Hashicorp, KMIP	Basic functionality only	With integrations: AWS, KMS, Hashicorp, KMIP
External authentication	LDAP, FIDO, Kerberos, PAM		LDAP, FIDO, Kerberos, PAM, Windows
Thread pool
Data masking
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Backup Features	Percona Distribution for MySQL	MySQL Community	MySQL Enterprise Edition
Back up to AWS cloud
Back up to GCP cloud
Back up to Azure cloud
Back up to OpenStack storage
Back up to MinIO (K8s storage)		Basic functionality only
Physical backup
Logical backup
Selective backup	With logical backups	With logical backups
Point-in-time recovery
Hot non-backing backups

Components	Percona Distribution for MySQL	MySQL Community	MySQL Enterprise Edition
Load balancer	ProxySQL, MySQL Router, HAProxy	MySQL Router	MySQL Router
Failover automation	Orchestrator, Percona XtraDB Cluster, InnoDB Cluster	InnoDB Cluster	InnoDB Cluster
Scripts to automate DBA tasks	MySQL Shell, Percona Toolkit	MySQL Shell	MySQL Shell
Client and code editor
InnoDB Cluster (Group Replication)
Percona XtraDB (Galera Cluster)
Asynchronous replication

Monitoring and Management	Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)	MySQL Workbench	MySQL Enterprise Monitor
Open source
Specialized dashboards: trends, replication, I/O, query analyzer, etc.		Limited
Performance Schema/Performance Schema Waits Analysis		Limited
InnoDB metrics		Limited
MyRocks storage engine metrics
Query analysis		Limited
Table statistics		Limited
User statistics		Limited
Advisors and alerting

Kubernetes Operator	Percona Operator for MySQL	MySQL Operator for Kubernetes	MySQL Operator for Kubernetes
Integrated multi-cloud deployment configuration
Automated upgrade
Scheduled backups
Incremental backups
Point-in-time recovery
Monitoring	Percona Monitoring and Management
Load balancing	ProxySQL and HAProxy	MySQL Router	MySQL Router
Transport encryption
Data at Rest Encryption
RedHat® OpenShift® certified

DBaaS	Percona Everest (Beta)	Not available	Oracle Enterprise Database Services
On-premises / hybrid		Available via third-party cloud providers
Cloud		Available via third-party cloud providers	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Support and Services	Percona for MySQL	MySQL Community	MySQL Enterprise
Post-EOL support for MySQL 5.7
Multi-database support		Available with third-party vendors like Percona
Managed services		Available with third-party vendors like Percona
Tech-agnostic consulting		Available with third-party vendors like Percona

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• Server
• Backup
• Advanced
  Features
• Security
• Monitoring and
  Management
• Kubernetes
  Operator
• DBaaS
• Support and
  Services

Server Features	Percona Server for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Fully compatible with MongoDB Community Server
Document data store
Default storage engine	WiredTiger	WiredTiger	WiredTiger	WiredTiger
In-memory storage engine				Above M40 sized systems Atlas memory caching providing in-memory capable performance
Supported deployment types	On-premises, cloud, hybrid	On-premises, cloud, hybrid	On-premises, cloud, hybrid	Cloud
Multiple availability zones
Multiple regions
Multiple cloud availability
Redundancy via replica sets
Built-in replication, up to 50 replica set members
Automatic failover sharding

Backup Features	Percona Backup for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Open source backup
Binary database export (logical backup)
Built-in point-in-time recovery support
Physical backup
Incremental backup (physical)
Backup management interfaces	-Percona Backup for MongoDB (CLI) -Percona Monitoring and Management -mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	-mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	-Ops Manager -Cloud Manager -mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)	-Atlas backups -mongodump / mongorestore (CLI)
Sharded collections restores supported
Cluster-to-cluster sync

Advanced Features	Percona Distribution for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Multiple programming language support
BI Connector
Live resharding
Time series collections
Integrated advanced search
Advanced operators, functions, and aggregation pipeline

Security Features	Percona Distribution for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Queryable encryption	Explicit encryption	Explicit encryption	Automatic encryption Explicit encryption	Automatic encryption Explicit encryption
Data At Rest Encryption
Key management compatibility	Hashicorp Vault KMIP Locally managed key files		KMIP Locally managed key files	AWS KMS Google Cloud KMS Azure Key Vault Locally managed key files
Data-in-transit encryption	SSL/TLS	SSL/TLS	SSL/TLS	SSL/TLS
Client-Side Field Level Encryption	Explicit encryption	Explicit encryption	Automatic encryption Explicit encryption	Automatic encryption Explicit encryption
Authentication / authorization	SCRAM X.509 LDAP Kerberos	SCRAM X.509	SCRAM X.509 LDAP Kerberos Fine-grained auditing	SCRAM X.509 LDAP Fine-grained auditing / Field-level redaction
Auditing
Log redaction
Role-based access control
FIPS-140 module

Monitoring, Management, and Alerting	Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Open source monitoring
Configuration
Automated patches and upgrades
Alerting
Alternative alerting methods	Email Webhooks Messenger integration External tool integration		Email HTTPS endpoints Messenger integration SNMP External tool integration	Email HTTPs endpoints Messenger integration SNMP External tool integration
Index and schema recommendations
Performance Advisor
Query Analyzer

Kubernetes Operator	Percona Operator for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Multi-cloud
Monitoring	Percona Monitoring and Management		Ops Manager Cloud Manager	Atlas
Backup and restores	Scheduled backups On-demand backups Point-in-time recovery Physical backups Incremental backups through Oplog / PITR		Scheduled backups On-demand backups Point-in-time recovery	Scheduled backups On-demand backups Point-in-time recovery
Topologies	Hidden node Arbiter node Replica set Sharded cluster	Replica set	Hidden node Arbiter node Replica set Sharded cluster	Hidden node Arbiter node Replica set Sharded cluster

DBaaS	Percona Everest (Beta)	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
On-premises / hybrid
Cloud	AWS		AWS GCP Azure	AWS GCP Azure

Support and Services	Percona for MongoDB	MongoDB Community Edition	MongoDB Enterprise Advanced	MongoDB Atlas
Multi-database support
Managed services
Tech-agnostic consulting

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• Distribution
• K8s Operator
• DBaaS
• Support and Services

Distribution Components	PostgreSQL Community	Percona for PostgreSQL	EDB	Crunchy Data
Open source and free from vendor lock-in		All components are open source
Enterprise features	With expertise in choosing and testing the right extensions	Production-ready out of the box	Commercial software	Commercial software
Distribution component testing	Components are tested separately	Components are tested to work together	Components are tested to work together	Components are tested to work together
Operational support and bug fixes	Strong global community support	Additional support from Percona Community, production support from Percona Services	Via commercial support	Via commercial support
High availability, load balancing, and replication	Various extensions	Patroni, HAProxy	EDB Postgres Distributed	With commercial version
Connection pooling	Various extensions	pgpool2, PgBouncer
Backup and restore	Various extensions	pgBackRest
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)	Various extensions	pg_tde - extension created and supported by the Percona team	Available for a fee in EDB Postgres Advanced Server and EDB Postgres Extended Server	Available for a fee in Crunchy Hardened PostgreSQL
Authentication	Various methods	Support for various Authentication methods, including LDAP	Support for various Authentication methods, including LDAP	Support for various Authentication methods, including LDAP
Sharding support for on-premises and private cloud infrastructures	Various extensions	Coming soon via Citus integration
Time series database support	Various extensions	Coming soon via TimescaleDB integration
Spacial data handling	PostGIS	PostGIS	PostGIS	PostGIS
Monitoring and observability	Various extensions	Percona Monitoring and Management, an open source monitoring solutionbased on Grafana pg_stat_monitor	Postgres Enterprise Manager built on pgAdmin. Available by subscription	Prometheus stack and pgMonitor
Audit logging	Various extensions	pgAudit, pgBager, pg_gather	edb_audit_statement	pgAudit

DBaaS	PostgreSQL Community	Percona for PostgreSQL	EDB	Crunchy Data
On-premises, hybrid cloud	N/A	Percona Everest
Self-managed	N/A	Percona Everest
Fully managed public cloud	Various fully managed public cloud solutions: Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, Aiven	Percona Everest with Percona Services	BigAnimal	Crunchy Bridge

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• Distribution and
  Components
• Backup
• Monitoring, Management,
  and Analytics
• Cloud Native
• Support and
  Services

Distribution and Components	Percona Software for MySQL	MariaDB Community	MariaDB Enterprise
Open source
Load balancing and routing	ProxySQL HAProxy MySQL Router	ProxySQL HAProxy	MariaDB MaxScale*
Database firewall	ProxySQL	ProxySQL	MariaDB MaxScale*
Scalability - clustering	MySQL Group Replication Percona XtraDB Cluster (based on a further engineered Galera Cluster)	MariaDB with Galera Cluster	MariaDB Enterprise Cluster (requires the deployment of MariaDB MaxScale)*
Security - data masking	Data masking plugin for MySQL	ProxySQL	MariaDB MaxScale*
Security - encryption	Data at Rest Encryption with external key management integrations	Data at Rest Encryption with external key management integrations	Data at Rest Encryption with external key management integrations
Security - auditing	Percona Audit Plugin	MariaDB Audit Plugin	MariaDB Audit Plugin
Distributed SQL
Additional storage engines	MyRocks: storage savings	No production-ready storage engine	No production-ready storage engine

Monitoring, Management, and Analytics	Percona Software for MySQL	MariaDB Community	MariaDB Enterprise
Monitoring and management	Percona Monitoring and Management
Analytics	Clickhouse integration		MariaDB ColumnStore

Cloud Native	Percona Software for MySQL	MariaDB Community	MariaDB Enterprise
Kubernetes	Percona Operator for MySQL
DBaaS	Percona Everest (Beta)	Available through third-party cloud providers

Support and Services	Percona for MySQL	MariaDB Community	MariaDB Enterprise
Multi-database support		Available through third-party cloud providers
Managed services		Through MariaDB Cloud	Through MariaDB Cloud
Tech-agnostic consulting		Available through third-party providers like Percona

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