Percona Platform aims to boost open source database support

Open up source databases help vendor Percona on Tuesday created its namesake platform commonly available. Percona Platform allows organizations to much more quickly deal with databases on premises and in the cloud.

Considering that it was established in 2006, Percona, based in Raleigh, N.C., has presented corporations with support products and services for open supply database platforms, including MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.

To date, Percona has largely shipped those people companies as a set of different abilities. With the Percona System, which has been in beta for the previous calendar year, the vendor has integrated its abilities into a single system that offers databases application and administration capabilities.

Percona Platform incorporates the new Advisors support, also now generally accessible, which integrates automated database optimization abilities that were not existing in the vendor’s particular person company choices right before.

Percona’s transfer to generate what he identified as an “intelligent open up facts system” is a phase in a constructive way for the seller, said Omdia analyst Bradley Shimmin.

“The company’s prolonged heritage in supporting disparate open up resource projects inside some highly demanding and challenging environments will make them the perfect associate for prospective customers hunting to reign in the complexities of deploying a heterogeneous, open up source-savvy info stack to the cloud,” Shimmin said.

Shimmin also claimed he sees potential for the Advisors services. With Advisors, Percona is in result codifying its professional solutions working experience as a company, enabling shoppers to choose a deployment pattern that the two matches their specific requires and has been tested in the subject between Percona customers. 

The firm’s lengthy history in supporting disparate open up source projects in some remarkably demanding and complex environments tends to make them the great lover for likely buyers on the lookout to reign in the complexities of deploying a heterogeneous, open up supply-savvy info stack to the cloud.