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InfluxDB vs Percona Server comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.8
Companies experienced enhanced operational efficiency and increased customer satisfaction with InfluxDB through real-time monitoring and automation.
Sentiment score
6.0
Percona Server enhances ROI via cost savings, extended hardware lifespan, improved efficiency, and skill development, especially over MySQL.
These improvements translated into both cost savings and better service reliability, directly impacting business outcomes.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
It simplifies processes and reduces the need for additional employees.
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
It has reduced a lot of time in terms of troubleshooting because the way it produces the data on a time-series basis allows me to collect and store the data for future reference.
Sdet Performance Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
What was projected for a three-year hardware lifespan extended to five years, yielding a return on investment of more than two times from migrating from MySQL to Percona Server.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have seen a return on investment from using Percona Server, especially in terms of time, as time to resolve issues and time to get notified mean that time is a lot of money.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
InfluxDB customer support is praised for enterprise-level help but needs faster response times and more complex deployment support.
Sentiment score
4.3
Percona Server relies on community forums for effective and friendly support, with users appreciating the comprehensive assistance provided.
They get on a call, resolve issues, and handle everything efficiently.
Senior Dev Ops Engineer at 11 East Capital
The InfluxDB support team was knowledgeable and helped us troubleshoot complex problems efficiently.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
Obtaining that quantity of data directly from InfluxDB is quite challenging, and that is why we ask for help from the InfluxDB team to retrieve the data to avoid timeouts and those kinds of issues.
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
Percona Server's customer support is excellent with very responsive and friendly service.
Freelancer at geelen.io
support was quite helpful in assisting us with archivers, replicators, and other commands.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
InfluxDB scales efficiently in enterprises, supports large data volumes, and integrates well, though backup stability varies by deployment.
Sentiment score
8.1
Percona Server excels in scalable configuration, supporting growth with features like thread pooling and tools enhancing functionality.
The main challenge with InfluxDB, which is common with all databases, was handling very high throughput systems and high throughput message flow.
Deployment Engineer at Derq
It can handle large volumes of time-series data and with high ingestion rates, making it suitable for enterprise-scale deployments.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
We’ve scaled on volume with seven years of continuous data without performance degradation.
Senior System Developer at Norled
Percona Server's scalability is very strong, as it features thread pooling for over 10,000 connections.
Principal Data Infrastructure Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
We find it is easy to scale out and scale in using Percona Operator, Percona XtraDB toolkits, and PXC XtraDB Cluster.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Percona Server's scalability meets our needs well, as we use it in Docker and scale the way we want with multiple MongoDB servers rather than one huge server.
Devops at a tech company
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
InfluxDB is reliable, stable, and supported, with minor issues resolved by integrations and support, except in Azure China.
Sentiment score
8.9
Percona Server is praised for stability and reliability, with rare OS-related issues, often rated eight out of ten.
It serves as the backbone of our application, and its stability is crucial.
Senior System Developer at Norled
We have used it to support mission-critical systems with continuous data ingestion and real-time analytics.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
It is very stable, with no reliability or downtime in InfluxDB.
Student at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Percona Server is perfectly stable and reliable.
Devops at a tech company
Percona Server is very stable in my experience.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Percona Server is stable based on my experience.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

InfluxDB requires improvements in query language, UI, pricing, documentation, scalability, cloud integration, and support for non-technical users.
Percona Server needs better disk space management, training resources, navigation, Docker support, and marketing to enhance user experience.
InfluxDB deprecated FluxQL, which was intuitive since developers are already familiar with standard querying.
Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency
Having a SQL abstraction in InfluxDB could be beneficial, making it more accessible for teams that prefer querying with SQL-style syntax.
Senior System Developer at Norled
It could include automated backup and a monitoring solution for InfluxDB or a script developed by a REST API.
Network engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
It would be helpful to clarify the metrics related to disk I/O latency so we could understand where our bottlenecks are.
Freelancer at geelen.io
I believe it would be great to have tools to deploy Percona Server in Docker so that we can split a huge database server into many small servers, which are easier to maintain and delegate to junior administrators.
Devops at a tech company
The introduction of materialized views in Percona Server would be a significant help, as this feature has been requested for a long time.
Principal Data Infrastructure Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
 

Setup Cost

InfluxDB's pricing shift to a monthly model prompts enterprises to consider open-source options for cost-effective scalability and flexibility.
Percona Server offers cost-effective database management as a free open-source option with optional support, appealing to budget-conscious enterprises.
We use the open-source version of InfluxDB, so it is free.
Senior System Developer at Norled
I find the cloud version pricing of InfluxDB reasonable, and for the on-premises solution we use in our service, we need to purchase licenses.
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
Pricing is based on data volume, retention, and features, which really makes it scalable but requires careful planning to avoid unexpected costs.
Senior Data Engineer at a university with 201-500 employees
What I appreciated was that they packaged support with the licenses, ensuring that we ended up with a working database.
Freelancer at geelen.io
we received the enterprise features for free
 

Valuable Features

InfluxDB excels in fast data writes, analytics, and integration, enhancing efficiency and visualization with robust community support.
Percona Server offers scalability, high availability, open-source access, and cost savings, with tools for performance monitoring and management.
The most important feature for us is low latency, which is crucial in building a high-performance engine for day trading.
Chief Technology Officer at Presta Agency
InfluxDB’s core functionality is crucial as it allows us to store our data and execute queries with excellent response times.
Senior System Developer at Norled
It helps me maintain my solution easily because it is very reliable, so we didn't face any performance issues or crashes regarding our queries; we can get the results very fast.
Solutions Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Percona Kubernetes for MongoDB is a unique offering since no other companies provide a proper Kubernetes operator that supports deployment, maintenance, and backup.
Devops at a tech company
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.
Director of Project Services at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Whenever there is an issue, Percona Server notifies us, and we resolve the issue immediately.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

InfluxDB
Ranking in Open Source Databases
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Non-Relational Databases (1st), Network Monitoring Software (14th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (12th), NoSQL Databases (6th)
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 InfluxDB is 4.9%, up from 4.3% 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 (%)
InfluxDB4.9%
Percona Server2.4%
Other92.7%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Mugeesh Husain - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead, Software at Energybox
Time series data has been managed efficiently for IoT sensors but reporting still needs improvement
How InfluxDB can be improved is relevant since for Energy Box, we face certain issues. We have customers worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, but when we expanded to China two years ago, they indicated that they do not support the cloud version there. Our application is built on the cloud, which required us to create a separate application for Azure China, which was painful for us. The second issue involves frequent version changes. For example, we started with version one, transitioned to version two, and I heard they are considering InfluxDB version three, reverting to earlier practices. InfluxDB should improve without completely changing its approach. Now we have to redo our work for InfluxDB version three. Regarding needed improvements, the documentation is sufficient, but pricing presents a challenge. InfluxDB has standard pricing, which is acceptable for large companies. However, for startups in our position, they should provide special discounts so everyone can utilize it. The pricing should adapt as companies grow, which is a reasonable expectation.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
25%
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 Business9
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with InfluxDB?
If the dashboarding facility can be improved in terms of the visualization parameters and the amount of support available from the community, as well as having smarter alerts to send those alerts t...
What is your primary use case for InfluxDB?
My main use case for InfluxDB is to inject all my performance data and visualize it as a data source into Grafana. My data comes from JMeter from a plugin, which is inserting data to InfluxDB, and ...
What advice do you have for others considering InfluxDB?
It is good to start with InfluxDB to stabilize your data, visualize your data, and have the data stored on a time-series basis. I would recommend everyone to get into InfluxDB and start using it. T...
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 ...
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

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