# Percona XtraDB Cluster Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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Percona XtraDB Cluster

4.3 (15)

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Last updated March 25th, 2026

# Reviews of Percona XtraDB Cluster

Ease of use

4.5

Customer Service

4.7

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Rykmas M.  
SRE  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Very helpful!"

October 7, 2020

5.0

I try use it everywhere if it's suitable.

Pros

I was leading several projects which were using regular MySQL replication. This lead us to some issues from time to time. It all changed when we migrated to Percona XtraDB Cluster. It was full suitable for our cases.

Cons

Automatic provisioning, you don't need to care about lot of aspects.

Reason for choosing Percona XtraDB Cluster

Because I don't like managing regular replication. PXC + load balancing works great. Sure, it has its procs and cons, but it is good in major of the cases.

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YL

Yoann L.  
dba  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Perfect value to price and flexibility"

October 8, 2020

4.0

Pros

Ease of administration, ease of automation, verbose log informations A massive load of studies and ressources are available for nearly every subjects With information\_schema, performance\_schema, innodb\_metrics and status, you can basically measure performance of every single pieces of internal structures and tune accordingly

Cons

HA components (galera) log a lot of useful infos, but some errors remains extremely hard to exploit. EG if nodes lost communication, regain it and proceed to auto-bootstrap themselves we only have a bunch of dumped internal c++ objects with obfuscated field names, without any filename to read source. Plus Github does not support "sub" repository code queries, Galera components fall under this category which makes it harder to really grasp what is going on

Alternatives considered

[PostgreSQL](https://www.capterra.com/p/48791/PostgreSQL/)[MariaDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/132005/MariaDB/)

Reason for choosing Percona XtraDB Cluster

Only PXC had this level of monitoring possibilities. Full compatibility with Oracle MySQL made it easier to convince developpers

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US

Udbhav S.  
Analyst  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "PXC that supports business applications for stakeholders"

October 29, 2020

3.0

Pros

Has advanced data security and strong encryption, having a facility to store a large amount of data

Cons

Sometimes take a longer time to load a bulk data

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CG

Christopher G.  
Database Administrator  
Restaurants  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "PXC Has been Great For US"

December 10, 2020

5.0

Overall, we are very happy that we have moved to PXC.

Pros

We switched over from MariaDB to PXC 5.7 and we have seen improvements with our database performance. PXC has been able to handle a large transaction amounts with better ease. And the system has been more stable since the switch as well.

Cons

The only negatives to our switch to PXC 5.7 have been that we did need to update some stored procedures in order for it to work the same as they were in MariaDB and we had to adjust the strict mode settings for now to allow our code to fully work.

Reason for choosing Percona XtraDB Cluster

It was the recommended option and benchmark testing showed better performance.

Switched from

[MariaDB](https://www.capterra.com/p/132005/MariaDB/)

Performance problems during higher transactional lodes.

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Harjit L.  
MySQL DBA  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Test it thoroughly"

October 11, 2020

5.0

Not reliable in 2013. Test the product thoroughly for all your scenarios with realistic workloads.

Pros

Having multi nodes across two site was a good idea for DR purposes.

Cons

I used an older version in 2013 the whole cluster would hang if all nodes on the DR site did not keep up - which they didn't as it was WAN.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Software developer  
Health, Wellness and Fitness  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Relaible Performance"

January 25, 2022

5.0

Excellent fabulous

Pros

It has High availability and MySQL clustering solution that secures the system. It has Open source feature and Cost efficient solution. It has powerful ability in configuration process . It is simple enough to grasp administrative tasks.

Cons

The complexities are the main problem that occurs.

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PR

Pradeep R.  
Sr system mgmt analyst  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Customer support "

April 15, 2021

4.0

PXC is better than master slave topology. Application teams are happy using this product

Pros

I like the customer support of Percona, whenever there is P1 they jump into the call and troubleshoot the isuue

Cons

For large databases, SST is the problem it takes longer time. May this can be avoided in future releases

Reason for choosing Percona XtraDB Cluster

Because it is synchronous Replication. Doesn't have isues

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CT

Cihan T.  
Solution Architect  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Enterprise ready solution"

June 16, 2021

5.0

If you want to use a better product than MySQL, you can definitely choose xtradb from MySQL developers. It has built-in clustering, already tuned performance and better documentation.

Pros

It has many features than MySQL. It mixed with clustering and security. Strongly recommended for production usage. Community help is acceptable and their documentation is too good.

Cons

At documentation, it can be much easier if they explain more detailed. Such topics at cluster, you need to find a solution by googling.

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KKN

KARTHICK KUMAR N.  
Senior consultant  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Cluster"

May 8, 2021

5.0

I am liking the Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Pros

Easy to install and manage the products.

Cons

Nothing major, easily we understand the basic concepts and functional.

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Kumar S.  
Data Engineer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Data Design "

December 19, 2020

4.0

Pros

I like user friendly interface and must easy in use.

Cons

I faced some lag in software in heavy data using

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DA

Donatas A.  
SRE  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "One of the best solution in the market for medium sized clusters"

October 8, 2020

4.0

Pros

The best part is multi-master replication. We always used master-master replication with ExaZK \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\] in front to have a smooth failover. With XtraDB it's kinda easier because you don't need any external services for that. That's why this product is best suited for medium sized setups.

Cons

We used XtraDB in geo-replication setup, but it was slow due to high latencies and all nodes have to ACK writes before returning a response. We described some details in our blog post: \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\]

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
System Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "A Perspective"

December 19, 2020

4.0

Pros

The most significant feature is to efficiently manage the recruitment processes through databases and opportunities of jobs. Also the interactive feature to compare the job profiles.

Cons

curretly i dont find any inefficiencies.

Review Source

SC

Sejal C.  
Data analyst  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Open Source and reliable tool"

December 19, 2020

4.0

Overall good experience

Pros

Easy and attractive to use dashboard security

Cons

The user manual can be more friendly and informative for beginners

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GG

Gargi G.  
student  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Views on Product "

November 29, 2020

3.0

Pros

Features of this product are good in nature and helpful

Cons

The interface can be made better otherwise its helpful product

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AV

Abhishek V.  
Student  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Percona XtraDB Cluster"

November 29, 2020

5.0

Very beneficial for industry

Pros

Everything, easy to use, easy to implement, flexible, user friendly, nice interface.

Cons

Marketing, customer support, user interaction.

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