20 Years of Open Source Database Awesomeness

20 Years of Open Source Database Awesomeness

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Timeline

Timeline

Two Decades of Growth:

Two Decades of Growth:

Milestones, People, and Technology

Milestones, People, and Technology

When we started Percona, I never imagined how far we could go. Twenty years later, we’re proud to support teams around the world, helping them run open source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Reddis reliably in real production environments.

When we started Percona, I never imagined how far we could go. Twenty years later, we’re proud to support teams around the world, helping them run open source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Reddis reliably in real production environments.

Peter Zaitsev
Founder of Percona

Technologies

Services

Products

Community

Staff

Customers

Start

2006

  • Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko start Percona with support for MySQL

  • Consulting Services Launched

  • MySQL Performance Blog and MySQL Performance Forums Launched

  • 2 Founders

  • The first customer

2007

  • The first staff member

2008

  • First Percona Open Source Product

    Percona MySQL builds with Percona patchsets

  • Percona XtraDB Storage Engine

  • 20 Employees

2009

  • MariaDB Support

  • Percona XtraBackup for MySQL

  • Percona Performance Conference in Santa Clara

2010

  • Support Services

  • Percona Server for MySQL XtraDB

    Storage Engine was included

2011

  • Percona Toolkit

  • Percona Live North America - The first

  • Percona Live is held

  • 1,000 customers

2012

  • Percona XtraDB Cluster

  • Percona Monitoring Plugins - As a predecessor of PMM

2013

  • Remote DBA service (Managed Services)

  • Percona University

2014

2015

  • MongoDB Support

  • Percona Server for MongoDB

  • Percona Live Europe

  • 139 Employees

2016

  • Percona Monitoring and Management

2017

2018

  • PostgreSQL Support

2019

  • Percona Monitoring and Management 2.0

  • Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

  • Percona Backup for MongoDB

  • Percona Kubernetes Operators

2020

  • Percona Distribution for MySQL

  • Percona Distribution for MongoDB

  • Tech Days

2021

  • 260+ Employees

  • 3,000 Customers

  • Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL

2022

  • Percona Platform

  • Percona Road Show

  • Percona Live is back to offline format after Covid-19

2023

2024

  • Percona Everest

  • Valkey Packages

This is just the beginning

2025

  • PG_TDE Extension

  • Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0

  • Kubernetes Certified Services Provider for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Status

  • 350+ Employees

  • 3500+ Customers

Technologies

Services

Products

Community

Staff

Customers

Start

2006

  • Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko start Percona with support for MySQL

  • Consulting Services Launched

  • MySQL Performance Blog and MySQL Performance Forums Launched

  • 2 Founders

  • The first customer

2007

  • The first staff member

2008

  • First Percona Open Source Product

    Percona MySQL builds with Percona patchsets

  • Percona XtraDB Storage Engine

  • 20 Employees

2009

  • MariaDB Support

  • Percona XtraBackup for MySQL

  • Percona Performance Conference in Santa Clara

2010

  • Support Services

  • Percona Server for MySQL XtraDB

    Storage Engine was included

2011

  • Percona Toolkit

  • Percona Live North America - The first

  • Percona Live is held

  • 1,000 customers

2012

  • Percona XtraDB Cluster

  • Percona Monitoring Plugins - As a predecessor of PMM

2013

  • Remote DBA service (Managed Services)

  • Percona University

2014

2015

  • MongoDB Support

  • Percona Server for MongoDB

  • Percona Live Europe

  • 139 Employees

2016

  • Percona Monitoring and Management

2017

2018

  • PostgreSQL Support

2019

  • Percona Monitoring and Management 2.0

  • Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

  • Percona Backup for MongoDB

  • Percona Kubernetes Operators

2020

  • Percona Distribution for MySQL

  • Percona Distribution for MongoDB

  • Tech Days

2021

  • 260+ Employees

  • 3,000 Customers

  • Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL

2022

  • Percona Platform

  • Percona Road Show

  • Percona Live is back to offline format after Covid-19

2023

2024

  • Percona Everest

  • Valkey Packages

This is just the beginning

2025

  • PG_TDE Extension

  • Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 3.0.0

  • Kubernetes Certified Services Provider for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB Status

  • 350+ Employees

  • 3500+ Customers

By the numbers

Percona

Percona

at a Glance

at a Glance

52

Countries
We are in

350

Perconians

20

Open Source
Products

6

Open Source DB
Technologies Supported

4.2M+

Downloads/mo

3,500

Clients

28,000

Active Forum Users

18,400

Contributions

23,000

Twitter Followers

6,000

Articles

Community

Community

Percona

Percona

Community Worldwide

Community Worldwide

Percona has a vibrant global community of open source database users, contributors, and customers who rely on its software and services every day. This worldwide network is at the heart of Percona’s mission to keep open source truly open and to make databases run better for everyone.

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Percona is part of a global open source community that builds, runs, and supports databases together. Thank you for being part of this journey over the past 20 years.

Peter Farkas
CEO at Percona

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