Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) Reviews & Product Details

Percona has an ability to be powerful in configuration options. This database and the company behind it outperforms the industry but is somewhat the unsung hero while doing it. I recommend entirely this database for a small startup that has incredibly intense data workloads. This database if setup correctly is a 5 9's environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The complexity is the major drawback to this service. I recommend being very careful about what flags you introduce. It's worth it to learn the database, but when it starts having technical difficulty due to usually the software that works with it, it can be a challenge to understand exactly what is wrong with it. A strong DBA on your team is a requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Percona XtraDB Cluster is an amazing cluster because it is open source and scalable and also it's a MySQL clustering solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing that I dislike about this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to configure, simple enough to grasp administrative tasks

Absolutely complete speaking of observability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still some rough edges with errors. Errors sometimes consist of cryptics dumped c++ objects without enough infos to track (sometime understand) source code

An example of a rough edge: if one node fails to synchronize, it could log a "file not found" error in mysql logs while the proper "backup log" from the chosen SST tool will correctly display the real error.

Having this issue at 3 AM, you always start to check if binaries still exist, which they do, and then you remember this corner case and check the correct log file if you happen to know it exists

This is a user experience issue only, everything is there to debug if you know where to search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.