Comparison

Percona Server vs YugabyteDB

No clear leader: Percona Server (60.0) and YugabyteDB (58.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Percona Server60

YugabyteDB59

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Percona Server	YugabyteDB
Vioscale score	60 / 100low · 41%	59 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	high
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	1
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	-	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	6.2	-
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Github starsadoption.github_stars	1,271	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	28	-
Release
Historyrelease.history	2 items	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	C++	-

Score

Vioscale score

Percona Server60 / 100low · 41%

YugabyteDB59 / 100medium · 71%

Pricing

Free tier

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Model

Percona Servercommercial

YugabyteDBcommercial

Price level

Percona Serverfree

YugabyteDBhigh

Transparent

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

Count

Percona Server–

YugabyteDB1

Security

Disclosure policy

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Gdpr

Percona Server–

YugabyteDB✓

Iso27001

Percona Server–

YugabyteDB✓

Scorecard

Percona Server6.2

YugabyteDB–

Soc2

Percona Server–

YugabyteDB✓

Reliability

Status page

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Adoption

Github stars

Percona Server1,271

YugabyteDB–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Percona Server28

YugabyteDB–

Release

History

Percona Server2 items

YugabyteDB–

Language

Primary

Percona ServerC++

YugabyteDB–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Relational Databases
Capability	Percona Server	YugabyteDB
Core
SQL model	Full SQL	Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions	Full	Full
Highest isolation level	Serializable	Serializable
Consistency
Consistency	Strong	Strong
Scale
Horizontal scale	Read replicas	Natively distributed
Replication
Replication	Sync	Consensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA	✓	✓
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero	✗	-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility	MySQL protocol	Postgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs	✓	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Copyleft	Permissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support	✓	✓
Geo / spatial	Native	-

Core

SQL model

Percona ServerFull SQL

YugabyteDBFull SQL

Transactions

ACID transactions

Percona ServerFull

YugabyteDBFull

Highest isolation level

Percona ServerSerializable

YugabyteDBSerializable

Consistency

Percona ServerStrong

YugabyteDBStrong

Scale

Horizontal scale

Percona ServerRead replicas

YugabyteDBNatively distributed

Replication

Percona ServerSync

YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)

Availability

Automatic failover / HA

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Deployment

Percona ServerSelf-hosted

YugabyteDBSelf-hosted

Serverless / scale-to-zero

Percona Server✗

YugabyteDB-

Compatibility

Wire compatibility

Percona ServerMySQL protocol

YugabyteDBPostgres protocol

Extensibility

Extensions / plugins / UDFs

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Licensing

Licence class

Percona ServerCopyleft

YugabyteDBPermissive OSS

Data types

JSON / document support

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Geo / spatial

Percona ServerNative

YugabyteDB-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Percona Server

A free, fully compatible drop-in replacement for MySQL that delivers improved performance and instrumentation. It is built on MySQL foundations and designed for organizations seeking enhanced reliability and monitoring without switching databases.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Percona Server

Open sourceFree tier

Completely free and open source

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

Standard$125/vCPU/month
- PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
- Cassandra API (YCQL)
- Change Data Capture
- Single-region fault tolerance
- PostgreSQL extensions
- +7 more
Professional$167/vCPU/month
- All Standard features
- Multi-region stretched clusters
- Read Replicas
- Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
- Performance Advisor
- +3 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- All Professional features
- Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
- Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Percona Server	YugabyteDB
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
HybridDeployment	✗	✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Percona Server✗

YugabyteDB✓

Self-hosted

Percona Server✓

YugabyteDB✓

Hybrid

Percona Server✗

YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Percona Server

Not documented yet.

YugabyteDB

1 total

Arctype SQL Client

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.