MySQL is a very popular database and a good choice for new projects. But is it the best choice?
Luckily you have several options for this choice.
MySQL Community vs. Enterprise Editions
Traditionally, the MySQL Community Edition has been a mainstay in the open source community for decades, and it is available for free. Originally, MariaDB was a drop-in replacement, but over the years, it has evolved into something close but not MySQL. But many find the Community Edition’s lack of enterprise features frustrating. That leaves two other options.
Oracle offers, at a cost, the Enterprise edition of the MySQL Server. It comes with a connection pooler, the ability to data mask fields, encryption capabilities, and other useful options. Sadly, the enterprise features are not open-source.
Enterprise at Community price
Percona, for free, offers enterprise features and more. And those features are open source. In addition, you get the RocksDB storage engine, a choice in load balancers (ProxySQL, MySQL Router, HA Proxy), and DBaaS abilities.
And Percona has been in the ‘MySQL business’ longer than Oracle has.
In the next few weeks, there will be a series of articles discussing the features of Percona’s MySQL offering. And hopefully, you will be convinced that your best choice for MySQL is Percona.
Percona Distribution for MySQL is a complete, stable, scalable, and secure, open source MySQL solution, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications. Deploy anywhere and implement easily with one-to-one compatibility with MySQL Community Edition.
Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!
