Percona, Inc. is a software company specializing in database support, development and training. The company was founded in 2006 by Vadim Tkachenko[1] and Peter Zaitsev,[2] and its headquarters is in Pleasanton, California. The company provides database consultancy and development to customers including the BBC, Groupon, RightNow Technologies, Answers.com and 37signals.[3]
In November 2012, the telecommunications company Telefónica announced that Joyent appliances with Percona Server would be used for its cloud computing service Instant Servers.[4][5]
In December 2012, Percona, SkySQL and The Monty Program AB, led by MySQL's creator Monty Widenius, announced the formation of the MariaDB Foundation to oversee the development of MariaDB.[6][7]
Products [link]
- Percona Server is a fork of the MySQL relational database. It employs the company's replacement database engine XtraDB,[8] a replacement for Oracle InnoDB[9]
- Percona Toolkit is a fork of the Maatkit database utilities created by former Percona employee Baron Schwartz.[10]
- Percona Monitoring Plugins are MySQL monitoring and graphing components, designed to integrate with monitoring tools such as Nagios and Cacti, also created by Baron Schwartz.[11]
- Percona PAM authentication plugin For MySQL allows authentication of access to MySQL using the standard pluggable authentication module mechanism.[12]
References [link]
- ^ "Vadim Tkachenko". Percona. https://www.percona.com/about-us/our-team/vadim-tkachenko.
- ^ "Percona Live DC 2012 Speakers". Percona. https://www.percona.com/live/dc-2012/schedule/speakers/.
- ^ "Percona Curbs MySQL Memory Hunger". PCWorld. 30 September 2011. https://www.pcworld.com/article/240892/percona_curbs_mysql_memory_hunger.html.
- ^ "Telefonica stirs up clouds, offers steaming mug of Instant Servers". The Register. 7 November 2012. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/telefoncia_cloud/.
- ^ "Joyent Appoints New CEO And Pushes Out Joyent7 For The Emerging Scaled Out Enterprise". TechCrunch. 7 November 2012. https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/joyent-appoints-new-ceo-and-pushes-out-joyent7-for-the-emerging-scaled-out-enterprise/.
- ^ https://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-foundation-to-safeguard-leading-open-source-database/
- ^ https://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/1-million-euros-pledged-to-new-MariaDB-Foundation-1762165.html
- ^ "Percona 5.5 - neuer Datenbankserver mit Mac-Experimenten" (in German). Linux-Magazin. 29 April 2011. https://www.linux-magazin.de/NEWS/Percona-5.5-neuer-Datenbankserver-mit-Mac-Experimenten.
- ^ Jeremy Zawodny (8 June 2009). "XtraDB: InnoDB on Steroids". Linux Magazine. https://www.linux-mag.com/id/7356/.
- ^ Baron Schwartz (7 September 2011). "Percona Toolkit 1.0.1 released". MySQL Performance Blog. https://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/09/07/percona-toolkit-1-0-1-released//.
- ^ Baron Schwartz (15 June 2012). "Release 1.0.1 of Percona Monitoring Plugins". MySQL Performance Blog. https://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/06/15/release-1-0-1-of-percona-monitoring-plugins/.
- ^ "Percona announces PAM plugin for MySQL". Heise Online. 5 December 2011. https://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Percona-announces-PAM-plugin-for-MySQL-1389803.html.
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