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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
11th
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
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 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 (%)
Percona Server2.4%
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service1.9%
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

"My advice to anybody who is researching this solution is that it is a better option than other solutions."
"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"Having multiple reliable databases has improved our business greatly because having a robust database is so integral to the company in general."
"MySQL is very stable and works beautifully with large amounts of data."
"The simplicity of the solution is very good; it's a straightforward solution and makes for a very good cloud option."
"It's easy to use."
"It is an established open-source database with a vast array of resources available, ensuring you can learn everything needed."
"The most valuable feature is the data aggregation function."
"I consider Percona Server to be MySQL Enterprise on steroids without licensing fees or restrictions, and it performs exceptionally well."
"Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to save a ton of money by not having to use RDS or Aurora in Amazon, which is the public cloud that we are in."
"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 primarily by helping with uptime a lot, as I support a lot of applications and a lot of servers, and it ensures that our services are well monitored."
"Percona Server's performance when handling large data sets was significant compared to regular MySQL, and it was excellent."
"We find the product mostly stable."
 

Cons

"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."
"It could be more user-friendly, but that depends on the user's technical skills."
"In a production environment, upgrading from a lower to an upper version is a very long process that needs to be improved."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service should be easier to replicate and integrate into further solutions."
"There could be more courses where the people could learn more easily how to use the tool."
"They could include more advanced features like clustering and replication in the Oracle databases."
"It is difficult to do any coding with this solution."
"The user interface is not simple."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
"I would like to add that the user interface is very crowded, which makes it challenging for new engineers to know where to turn, so I had to sit down and understand the documentation before I was able to manage the application myself."
"Percona Server can be improved by addressing the lag between releasing new versions of MySQL and its Percona support, and also by enhancing the configuration of performance variables to provide more user-friendly and easier to configure options."
"Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful."
"If I had to think of any small area for improvement for Percona Server, it would be around the proxy story."
"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."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 solution’s paid plans are expensive."
"The product is free since it is an open-source tool."
"The license is expensive."
"Oracle has a better licensing model compared to its competitors."
"It is an open-source product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
24%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

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?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, I know that it was not my position to pay for that or negotiate, but we received the enterprise features for free, and I am not aware of the licensing ...
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
To improve Percona Server, I recommend more marketing because many people in the MySQL world know it, but there is a need to let others know that instead of MySQL, they can use Percona Server to en...
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
Percona Server serves as our main database server handling user information, real-time GPS coordinates at a 30-second interval, and functions as our GIS database, reporting database, and secondary ...
 

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