Percona Server for MySQL feature comparison

Percona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation.

Percona Server for MySQL is trusted by thousands of enterprises to provide better performance and concurrency for their most demanding workloads. It delivers higher value to MySQL server users with optimized performance, greater performance scalability and availability, enhanced backups, and increased visibility.

We provide these benefits by significantly enhancing Percona Server for MySQL as compared to the standard MySQL database server:

MySQL Version Comparison

This comparison table compares Percona Server for MySQL 8.4 with MySQL 8.4 Community Edition. When a feature shows “Enterprise-Only” for MySQL, it means that feature is only available in MySQL 8.4 Enterprise Edition, not in the Community Edition. Percona Server for MySQL includes many Enterprise features at no cost.

Features	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
Open Source	Yes	Yes
ACID Compliance	Yes	Yes
Multi-Version Concurrency Control	Yes	Yes
Row-Level Locking	Yes	Yes
Automatic Crash Recovery	Yes	Yes
Table Partitioning	Yes	Yes
Views	Yes	Yes
Subqueries	Yes	Yes
Triggers	Yes	Yes
Stored Procedures	Yes	Yes
Foreign Keys	Yes	Yes
Window Functions	Yes	Yes
Common Table Expressions	Yes	Yes
Geospatial Features (GIS, SRS)	Yes	Yes
GTID Replication	Yes	Yes
Group Replication	Yes	Yes
MyRocks Storage Engine	Yes	No

Improvements for Developers	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
NoSQL Socket-Level Interface	Yes	Yes
X API Support	Yes	Yes
JSON Functions	Yes	Yes
InnoDB Full-Text Search Improvements	Yes	No
Extra Hash/Digest Functions	Yes	No
UUID_VX Component	Yes	No

Instrumentation and Troubleshooting Features	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables	95	65
Global Performance and Status Counters	853	434
Optimizer Histograms	Yes	Yes
Per-Table Performance Counters	Yes	No
Per-Index Performance Counters	Yes	No
Per-User Performance Counters	Yes	No
Per-Client Performance Counters	Yes	No
Per-Thread Performance Counters	Yes	No
Global Query Response Time Statistics	Yes	No
Enhanced SHOW INNODB ENGINE STATUS	Yes	No
Undo Segment Information	Yes	No
Temporary Tables Information	Yes	No
Extended Slow Query Logging	Yes	No
User Statistics	Yes	No

Performance and Scalability Features	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
InnoDB Resource Groups	Yes	Yes
Configurable Page Sizes	Yes	Yes
Contention-Aware Transaction Scheduling	Yes	Yes
Improved Scalability By Splitting Mutexes	Yes	No
Improved MEMORY Storage Engine	Yes	No
Improved Flushing	Yes	No
Improved Binlog Transaction Dependency Tracking	Yes	No
Parallel Doublewrite Buffer	Yes	Yes
Configurable Fast Index Creation	Yes	No
Per-Column Compression for VARCHAR/BLOB and JSON	Yes	No
Compressed Columns with Dictionaries	Yes	No

Security Features	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
SQL Roles	Yes	Yes
SHA-2 Based Password Hashing	Yes	Yes
Password Rotation Policy	Yes	Yes
PAM Authentication Plugin	Yes	Enterprise-Only
Data Masking Component	Yes	Enterprise-Only

Encryption Features	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
Storing Keyring in a File	Yes	Yes
Storing Keyring in Hashicorp Vault	Yes	Enterprise-Only
Encrypt InnoDB Data	Yes	Yes
Encrypt InnoDB Logs	Yes	Yes
Encrypt Built-In InnoDB Tablespaces (General, System, Undo, Temp)	Yes	Yes
Encrypt Binary Logs	Yes	No
Encrypt Temporary Files	Yes	No
Enforce Encryption	Yes	No

Operational Improvements	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
Atomic DDL	Yes	Yes
Transactional Data Dictionary	Yes	Yes
Instant DDL	Yes	Yes
SET PERSIST	Yes	Yes
Invisible Indexes	Yes	Yes
Threadpool	Yes	Enterprise-Only
Backup Locks	Yes	No
Extended SHOW GRANTS	Yes	No
Improved Handling of Corrupted Tables	Yes	No
Ability to Kill Idle Transactions	Yes	No
Improvements to START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT	Yes	No

Features for Running Database as a Service (DBaaS)	Percona Server for MySQL 8.4	MySQL 8.4 Community Edition
Enforce a Specific Storage Engine	Yes	Yes