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Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs Percona Server comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Ranking in Open Source Databases
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (14th)
Percona Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
14th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is 1.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Percona Server is 2.4%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service1.9%
Percona Server2.4%
Other95.7%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

RS
Director at Adamos Tecnologia
Efficiently manages extensive datasets with rapid connections and wide tool support
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is easy to manage and install. It does not require a DBA for management. The connections are very fast and it supports several thousand users simultaneously without any issues. New connections do not hang server operations. As soon as new releases are put out, they work as expected. Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is supported by every vendor and tool, including architectural, integration, and generation tools, offering wide protocol support. This makes Oracle MySQL Cloud Service a valuable solution.
Pieter Geelen - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at geelen.io
Reliable open-source database has supported our migration and improved e-commerce performance
Percona Server seems great to me overall. If I had to think of any small area for improvement for Percona Server, it would be around the proxy story. When adding a proxy to manage traffic better, we first tried SQL Proxy, but it never really worked for us, which was unfortunate because SQL Proxy offers better optimizations for read performance. We did have success with HAProxy, but it works on a network level, while SQL Proxy was designed to be SQL-aware and distribute parts of the query across the database cluster. The performance gain we were hoping for with SQL Proxy did not materialize, so we remained on the network level with HAProxy. Databases can be finicky regarding the performance they need. We had some disk I/O latency issues, which led us to use different types of nodes in our Kubernetes cluster where we provisioned Percona Server explicitly. There is a lot of IOPS happening under the hood, and while I suspect the application was not very efficient, it was also challenging to identify that we were experiencing performance issues due to disk performance. It would be helpful to clarify the metrics related to disk I/O latency so we could understand where our bottlenecks are.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"MySQL is a centralized RDBMS in itself, and you don't have the overkill of having the full Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. It's ideal, and it helps with the developer console. It has three versions for developers. It's a very good tool for open source."
"It is an established open-source database with a vast array of resources available, ensuring you can learn everything needed."
"MySQL is very stable and works beautifully with large amounts of data."
"The product is easy to learn."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service handles data easily."
"All the features are excellent."
"It’s easy to implement and affordable."
"The product is good for tuning."
"Percona Server's scalability is very strong, as it features thread pooling for over 10,000 connections, scales out horizontally, and comes with XtraDB Cluster and ProxySQL, making it very effective."
"After switching to Percona Server, we were able to resolve those issues quickly."
"In my use of Percona Server, I've found that the replication and High Availability features are the most valuable."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization because it is open source, and if the official MongoDB goes in different directions or makes its product expensive, we can still use Percona Server, which serves as a sort of safety net."
 

Cons

"The product has many bugs."
"There might be minor improvements, however, I can’t identify any particular areas for improvement at the moment."
"The user interface is not simple."
"There could be improvements, particularly in Firebird, where the indexing is limited to just a single B-tree index, leading to poor performance for large-scale queries."
"Sometimes MySQL does upgrades on the server. When we are still using the old server and when they integrate the upgrade, they don't carry along some of the old syntaxes. The versions don't sync."
"They could include more advanced features like clustering and replication in the Oracle databases."
"Relational databases, in general, are not known to be as scalable as NoSQL databases."
"The support is not that great. They're not really supporting directly anymore and relying on experts to figure out technical issues."
"Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
"Percona Server could be improved to keep pace with other flavors of MySQL, such as MariaDB, and could pivot to be Percona Server for MariaDB given Oracle's reduced investment in MySQL recently."
"I also think there should be more use cases and documentation on deploying in Kubernetes with real-life examples, as currently, the documentation is minimal, making it difficult in a production situation."
"If I had to think of any small area for improvement for Percona Server, it would be around the proxy story."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is free since it is an open-source tool."
"While the core solution itself is not exorbitant, the support services are associated with a significant maintenance fee, often ranging from twenty to thirty percent."
"The product is expensive."
"The license is expensive."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"The solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"It is an open-source product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
22%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
I have never paid for the full version of Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. We use the free version or the version available in RDS ( /products/amazon-rds-reviews ) from AWS ( /products/amazon-aws-review...
What needs improvement with Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service should be easier to replicate and integrate into further solutions. Although it targets Linux and UNIX environments, its performance is not as optimized on Windows platfo...
What is your primary use case for Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?
I work in finance, financial services, banking, and financial services.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
I was involved on the sideline when it comes to pricing, setup cost, and licensing. I think the pricing was good. What I appreciated was that they packaged support with the licenses, ensuring that ...
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
Percona Server seems great to me overall. If I had to think of any small area for improvement for Percona Server, it would be around the proxy story. When adding a proxy to manage traffic better, w...
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
My main use case for Percona Server was for an e-commerce platform, operating as a webshop. The customer had a migration underway where they wanted to move from a certain service provider to managi...
 

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Sample Customers

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