We performed a comparison between MariaDB and Percona Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about PostgreSQL, Oracle, MariaDB and others in Open Source Databases."The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently."
"It is a scalable solution. It easily scales up and scales down."
"It's a very easy product to set up."
"One of the great features of MariaDB is its scalability. It's easy to handle even with large databases."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the power it provides. It is a powerful solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support."
"We find the product mostly stable."
"An improvement would be scaling it up to the levels of Oracle, especially when it comes to resilience, so that we can do higher transactions for two databases or power our operation."
"Data continuity could be improved."
"The customer service and support are okay. But the response time is slow. Moreover, the material is not available freely."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"It doesn't have the same level of maturity metrics as Postgres."
"The price could be less expensive."
"If Percona had flashback capabilities, it would be ideal."
MariaDB is ranked 3rd in Open Source Databases with 26 reviews while Percona Server is ranked 8th in Open Source Databases with 1 review. MariaDB is rated 8.0, while Percona Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Allows for fetching data from multiple correlated or related databases in a single query, user-friendly and easy to handle". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Percona Server writes "Open-source and free to use with a good community". MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora, whereas Percona Server is most compared with MySQL, EDB Postgres Advanced Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service.
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