Percona Server provides users with a variety of powerful benefits including enterprise-grade features, high performance in demanding use cases, rich diagnostics, and access to unique Percona XtraBackup capabilities, all for free and open source. In addition, Percona Server is a drop-in MySQL replacement. Compatibility with MySQL has important ramifications (as well as some risks) as Giuseppe Maxia highlighted in a recent blog post about MySQL alternatives. Our commitment to drop-in compatibility with MySQL has important benefits for Percona Server users and drives our development process as I’ll describe.
Drop-in …
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