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Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is an integrated, fully open source solution for deploying and managing PostgreSQL in production. It brings together trusted tools, extensions, and management components—tested and configured to work reliably as a unified stack.

Built to handle real-world workloads at scale, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL includes everything organizations need for high availability, backup and recovery, monitoring, performance tuning, and advanced data workloads like geospatial and vector search.

With Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL:

Deploy a fully featured PostgreSQL environment with all essential components tested for compatibility and tuned for production. ✔

Run advanced workloads like geospatial (PostGIS) and vector search (pgvector) with built-in extension support. ✔

Manage and scale PostgreSQL in Kubernetes using the included Percona Operator for PostgreSQL. ✔

Key benefits of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

All-in-one PostgreSQL stack

Includes backup, HA, pooling, monitoring, auditing, and performance tools—all fully open source and tested together.

Built-in security and compliance

Features like encrypted backups, audit logging, and controlled privilege escalation help protect your data and meet regulatory requirements.

Consistent performance at scale

Optimize query performance, storage usage, and connection efficiency with integrated extensions.

Consistent performance at scale

Freely available reference architectures and pre-configured components reduce setup complexity and operational risk.

Supported by Percona and the open source community

Regular updates, enterprise-grade support options, and ongoing engineering investment.

Do more with Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL

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Increase application reliability

Built-in HA, backup, and recovery features help keep workloads running and recoverable.

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Simplify production operations

Avoid the overhead of piecing together extensions on your own. Everything works out of the box.

3

Support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies

Deploy consistently across varied environments without lock-in.

4

Enable advanced workloads

Use built-in support for spatial data, vectors, and time-series use cases without proprietary tooling.

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Distribution Components
PostgreSQL Community
Percona for PostgreSQL ✔
EDB
Crunchy Data
Open source and free from vendor lock-in
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All components are open source
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Enterprise features
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With expertise in choosing and testing the right extensions
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Production-ready out of the box
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Commercial software
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Commercial software
Distribution component testing
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Components are tested separately
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Components are tested to work together
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Components are tested to work together
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Components are tested to work together
Operational support and bug fixes
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Strong global community support
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Additional support from Percona Community, production support from Percona Services
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Via commercial support
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Via commercial support
High availability, load balancing, and replication
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Various extensions
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Patroni, HAProxy
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EDB Postgres Distributed
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With commercial version
Connection pooling
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Various extensions
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pgpool2, PgBouncer
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Backup and restore
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Various extensions
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pgBackRest
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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
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Various extensions
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pg_tde - extension created and supported by the Percona team
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Available for a fee in EDB Postgres Advanced Server and EDB Postgres Extended Server
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Available for a fee in Crunchy Hardened PostgreSQL
Authentication
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Various methods
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Support for various Authenticaton methods, including LDAP
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Support for various Authenticaton methods, including LDAP
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Support for various Authenticaton methods, including LDAP
Sharding support for on-premises and private cloud infrastructures
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Various extensions
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Coming soon via Citus integration
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Time series database support
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Various extensions
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Coming soon via TimescaleDB integration
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Spacial data handling
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PostGIS
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PostGIS
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PostGIS
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PostGIS
Monitoring and observability
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Various extensions
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Percona Monitoring and Management, an open source monitoring solutionbased on Grafana pg_stat_monitor
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Postgres Enterprise Manager built on pgAdmin. Available by subscription
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Prometheus stack and pgMonitor
Audit logging
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Various extensions
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pgAudit, pgBager, pg_gather
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edb_audit_statement
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pgAudit
“Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL's scalability and performance-focused features have equipped us with a resilient and scalable infrastructure, capable of seamlessly accommodating growing customer demands.”

Mehmet Fatih Bekin Data Center, Infrastructure and Cloud Services Director at Türk Telekom

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