What is Percona Server for MongoDB?

Percona Server for MongoDB is a free and open-source drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition. It combines all the features and beneﬁts of MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-class features from Percona. Built on the MongoDB Community Edition, Percona Server for MongoDB provides ﬂexible data structure, native high availability, easy scalability, and developer-friendly syntax. It also includes an in-memory engine, hot backups, LDAP authentication, database auditing, and log redaction.

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Jose Manuel Ortega View profile

Software Engineer && Security researcher in Research & Development at UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

High performance
Integration with other tools and services
Big data projects oriented
High availability and scalability

Cons

The learning curve makes it a bit tricky to use at first.
Documentation is an aspect to improve, especially for people who are just starting out.
At the interface level, the user experience could be improved.

Return on Investment

It offers a good alternative solution compared with other open source databases.
We have many resources at the documentation level and other tools that help the integration with different programming languages.