Percona Server for MySQL

Superior visibility

• Get a better understanding of server activity and loads with low overhead table, user, and index access statistics
• Better query performance analysis with Enhanced Slow Query Logging
• Detailed, defined-time-interval on read and writer queries with Query Response Time Distribution

Enhanced security and performance

• Enable scaling to 10,000 + connections per server with ThreadPool
• Authenticate MySQL users with PAM (Plugin Authentication Modules)
• Advance your security posture with FIPS mode support (available only in Percona Server for MySQL Pro)
• Enable policy-based monitoring and connection and query activity login with Audit Plugin
• Get low impact backups with Backup Locks
• Benefit from built-in encryption capabilities like vault keyring plug-in, encryption for InnoDB general tablespaces, encryption for binary log files

Ultimate flexibility

• Cloud-ready – dramatically reduces downtime on servers with slow disks and large memory, such as 4XL EC2 servers on EBS volumes.
• Saas-deployable – increases flexibility for architectures such as co-located databases with hundreds of thousands of tables and heterogeneous backup and retention policies.

Reduced costs and greater efficiencies

• Lower IT expenses with an open source, enterprise-grade, drop-in replacement for MySQL eliminates costly software license fees.
• Consolidate servers and improve efficiency
• Get better ROI via reduce hosting fees and power usage
• Spend less time tuning and administering and more time on key priorities