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Timeline
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
By the numbers
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
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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