Performance and scalability have long been the requirements of successful websites and applications. However, recent world events have seen sudden and massive shifts toward modernization of processes, with overnight increases in traffic resulting in systems being pushed to their limits.
Why Database Performance Matters
Delivering outstanding application experiences requires continuous database availability — especially during periods of peak demand. Uptime, performance, growth, security – these are all considerations when managing application data.

20% of companies experienced unplanned downtime in the last year

2 out of 5 companies had database performance issues that impacted their user base

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Read More“Providing an eager-to-learn and highly competent engineer with access to an expert from Percona — that’s when sparks really start to fly. Everyone wins! For a small business that’s a huge value proposition.”
— Alejandro Pérez, Chief Happiness Officer and CEO, Komet Sales
Improve Database and Application Performance
Achieving your business goals means guaranteeing reliable applications, websites, and services. Your database environment performance — on-premises or in the cloud — is a crucial component of your database operations. With optimization and tuning, you can realize significant business impact:

A faster, more responsive system with improved workloads and performance up to 50%.

Lower database costs, saving millions of dollars on your database costs.

Happier customers, with increased database response speeds to meet user needs.
How Solid Database Planning Can Future Proof Your Business
Building your application on a stable database backend can prevent costly and time-consuming problems.
Download WhitepaperDatabase Checklist for High Traffic Events
Download our checklist to discover what you should be doing in your database environment to better prepare for high traffic events.
Download Solution BriefThe Hidden Costs of Not Properly Managing Your Databases
Discover the true cost of downtime and the potential losses that can happen without a well-configured database and infrastructure setup.
Download WhitepaperThe Percona Performance Process
As an industry-leading expert on database performance and optimization for over 13 years, we have helped thousands of customers solve even the most complex database challenges.

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We hire the best database experts in the world and pair the right expert with the right customer.
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Percona Tools uncover bottlenecks and slowdowns even across thousands of databases.
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The Percona Performance Audit: We tune your environment to your unique needs.
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Percona software, based on free open source code, fixes slowdowns and improves stability.
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Review, revisit and adjust — tools, knowledge, and capabilities to adjust as things change.
Database Optimization Tips and Tricks
Explore our posts and webinars to help you learn more about how to optimize your MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL database.
Uncover Insights Into the Performance of Your Applications and Databases
Percona Monitoring and Management is the performance monitoring and diagnostic tool built by the Percona experts to help you quickly uncover those needle in the hack stack problems. Used by thousands of organizations around the globe to manage complex database environments, Percona Monitoring and Management enables you to embrace different platforms, while maintaining confidence in your ability to monitor the performance of your data.
Why Choose Percona
Percona has helped set up, tune, and optimize most of the databases that run and power the modern web since 2006. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Percona experts know open source database software — MySQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and more. We help our clients achieve better application performance by maximizing database performance, whether on-premise, in the cloud or a hybrid of the two.
Optimize Your Database
Let us show you how to scale your systems to meet even the most extreme growth.