# Percona Server vs Supabase

| Attribute | Percona Server | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60 (41% (low)) | 63.7 (70% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 28 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 1,271 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A Postgres-based development platform that provides a full relational database with built-in authentication, REST APIs, edge functions, realtime data synchronization, file storage, and vector embeddings. |
| features.capabilities | `{"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"self_hosted","serverless":false,"consistency":"strong","geo_spatial":"native","replication":"sync","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"copyleft","horizontal_scale":"read_replica","acid_transactions":"full","automatic_failover":true,"wire_compatibility":"mysql"}` | `{"isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","deployment":"managed","consistency":"strong","extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"acid_transactions":"full","wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` |
| integrations.count | - | 12 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Algolia"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Flutter"}]` |
| language.primary | C++ | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Completely free and open source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-live-europe-discounted-pricing-community-dinner/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:35:48.210Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage_cached_egress":"5 GB","storage_uncached_egress":"5 GB"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","commitment":"annual","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage_cached_egress":"250 GB","storage_uncached_egress":"250 GB"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"storage_cached_egress":"250 GB","storage_uncached_egress":"250 GB"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Storage cached egress","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier with 5 GB storage egress. Paid plans (Team, Enterprise) with annual commitment available via AWS Marketplace; cached egress $0.03/GB.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://supabase.com/blog/storage-500gb-uploads-cheaper-egress-pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:53:09.223Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/percona/percona-server/releases/tag/Percona-Server-5.5.55-38.8","date":"2017-07-05T20:27:17Z","type":"stable","version":"Percona-Server-5.5.55-38.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/percona/percona-server/releases/tag/Percona-Server-5.7.17-13","date":"2017-07-05T20:28:28Z","type":"stable","version":"Percona-Server-5.7.17-13"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.2 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Relational Databases)

| Capability | Percona Server | Supabase |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 | - |
| **Replication** |  |  |
| Replication | Sync | - |
| **Availability** |  |  |
| Automatic failover / HA | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / scale-to-zero | ✗ | - |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Wire compatibility | MySQL protocol | Postgres protocol |
| **Extensibility** |  |  |
| Extensions / plugins / UDFs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Copyleft | - |
| **Data types** |  |  |
| JSON / document support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geo / spatial | Native | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:02:23.114Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*