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CrateDB vs Percona Server comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CrateDB
Ranking in Open Source Databases
19th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Percona Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of CrateDB is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Percona Server is 2.4%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Percona Server2.4%
CrateDB1.0%
Other96.6%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

FC
product owner at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Data platform has delivered real-time casino gameplay insights but still needs broader expertise
The best features CrateDB offers in my experience include many functionalities that allow you to purge data, maintain data, keep the database clean and essentially updated. CrateDB also allows us to store many records, and I think the performance is very strong compared to other databases or technologies. CrateDB's performance stood out for me as it allowed me to query results in less than seconds, which was optimal and enabled real-time analytics. I found it to be a very distributed SQL engine, which was beneficial considering our specific requirements. It supports multi-model and flexible schemas for structured and semi-structured data, JSON, time series for loads, and BLOBs, along with integrated performance improvements and faster ingestion than what I recall from other databases, plus better query optimizations. CrateDB has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to store several years of gameplay from our Asian customers, which involves millions and millions of records generated every day. Positively, we did not experience significant downtimes or outages, meaning the gameplay was not affected at all during these two years.
Frederico De Almeida - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Embratur
Clustered databases have improved consistency and reduced downtime for critical applications
Percona Server offers excellent scalability and easy configuration. The configuration feature is particularly valuable to me because adding a new server requires minimal effort, which streamlines my workflow. Database consistency is the most important feature for me. Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing downtime for applications and improving backup capabilities. Percona Server has improved downtime and backup management by making it easy to switch to another server when necessary, and it includes built-in backup functionality.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"CrateDB positively impacted my organization by reducing the time needed for processes, and its impressive scalability made it easy to start with one server and then horizontally scale to multiple nodes to retrieve data, which helped my company gain more customers."
"CrateDB fit into my project very well as it was an excellent database that allowed me to query analyses I did not think I would be able to perform."
"CrateDB has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to store several years of gameplay from our Asian customers, which involves millions and millions of records generated every day, and we did not experience significant downtimes or outages, meaning the gameplay was not affected at all during these two years."
"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."
 

Cons

"One area for improvement in CrateDB could be the command line interface, as sometimes it was not very easy to understand."
"CrateDB can be improved as it is not very popular, which means there are not many people dedicated or experienced with this particular technology, making it less usable or suitable for many companies."
"CrateDB was good regarding scalability, though not excellent."
"It doesn't reclaim disk space when rows are deleted."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
22%
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrateDB?
CrateDB was free when I used it, so there was no pricing associated with it, as we used the free version.
What needs improvement with CrateDB?
I wanted to use CrateDB for visualization as well, but it did not provide what I needed, so we had to opt for Grafana for the visualization instead. Regarding needed improvements, I was quite able ...
What is your primary use case for CrateDB?
I used CrateDB for a one-off project from April to August in 2025. My main use case was a digital twin project designed to create a FIWARE-based application with a focus on optimizing the data mana...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I am using the free version.
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
Percona Server could be improved by adding more advanced query fields, which would be very helpful.
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
Percona Server is my main solution for electronic information systems, and I use Percona XtraDB Cluster for this purpose. Percona Server has facilitated the configuration of clusters compared to us...
 

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