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Percona Distribution for MongoDB

Performant, enterprise-grade MongoDB software free of licensing fees and lock-in.

Free your applications from proprietary software

Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a source-available alternative for enterprise MongoDB.

A bundling of Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB, Percona Distribution for MongoDB combines the best and most critical enterprise components from the open source community into a single feature-rich and freely available solution.

An all-in-one, enterprise-grade solution
Run highly performant and secure MongoDB on-premises and in the most demanding public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
Alternative to community and proprietary MongoDB
More enterprise-ready than MongoDB Community Edition. None of the licensing fees or lock-in of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Atlas.
Tested, configured, and expert-backed
All components are tested and designed to work together, with regular updates and 24×7 support.
Built-in enterprise-grade security and backup features
Meet enterprise application requirements with a purpose-built set of backup and security features.
Cloud-native

Compatible with Percona Operator for MongoDB to deploy and manage MongoDB in Kubernetes. Support cloud-native applications and deliver consistent and easy-to-reproduce environments.

What’s included in Percona Distribution for MongoDB?

Percona Distribution for MongoDB gets you both Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB. Alternatively, you can download the software individually.

Percona Server for MongoDB

A freely available, drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition, Percona Server for MongoDB offers:

Enterprise-grade security features

Access and audit controls to protect your sensitive data in transit and at rest, no matter where it is stored.

Data availability, reliability, and scalability

Delivers the elasticity and data protection features you require to meet your enterprise application needs.

Simplified application development

A document database enables you to alter and grow your database to meet business goals.

Percona Backup for MongoDB

A fully supported, open source backup tool, Percona Backup for MongoDB offers:

Freedom from vendor costs and lock-in

Percona Backup for MongoDB ensures consistent back-ups that you can run and manage without needing to pay for, or involve, a third-party vendor.

Improved performance and reliability

Backup large data stores with physical, incremental, or logical backups, and automated point- in-time-recovery. Save backups directly to Amazon S3 or S3-compatible systems.

Compatibility on-premises and in the cloud

Fully compatible with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and others.

Enterprise-ready features

Tools you need to ensure the consistency and safety of your data files

Do more with Percona Distribution for MongoDB

Remain secure with audit control

Protect your sensitive data in transit and at rest no matter where it is stored with access and audit control.

  • Safeguard user data by enabling data at rest encryption with KMIP and HashiCorp Vault
  • Standardize user access with external LDAP authentication and authorization
  • Improve compliance reporting with log and audit activity

Ensure data availability, reliability, and scalability

Percona Distribution for MongoDB delivers the scalability and data protection features you need to meet your enterprise application requirements.
  • Minimize unexpected downtime with native high availability capabilities.
  • Recover quickly from unexpected issues with a non-blocking hot backup of your database.
  • Meet changing business demands and easily scale your environment using sharding.

Simplify the development of new applications

Enjoy a flexible document database that enables you to grow and scale as your business does.
  • Alter the structure of your data in order to meet changing business needs.
  • Interact and manipulate data efficiently with a document format that easily maps to objects in your code.
  • Reduce development cycle times with Percona Kubernetes Operator.

Stay ahead of the curve

New code releases and MongoDB technical insights are regularly published on the Percona Database Performance Blog.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Percona Distribution for MongoDB?
Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a source-available drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition that includes enterprise-grade security and backup features. A bundling of Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona Backup for MongoDB, Percona Distribution for MongoDB combines the best and most critical enterprise components from the open source community into a single feature-rich and freely available solution.
Is Percona Distribution for MongoDB free?
Yes. Percona Distribution for MongoDB is freely available. With Percona Distribution for MongoDB, you get a drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition enhanced with enterprise-grade features on par with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Atlas without licensing agreements or lock-in.
What are the key benefits of using Percona Distribution for MongoDB for enterprises?
Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available, enterprise-grade MongoDB alternative. You get enterprise-grade features on par with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and MongoDB Atlas without licensing agreements or lock-in. You can also use Percona Distribution for MongoDB on any infrastructure — on-premises or in the cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud environments.
What is included when I download Percona Distribution for MongoDB?
Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a collection of solutions to run and operate your MongoDB efficiently with the data being consistently backed up. Percona Distribution for MongoDB includes the following components:

  • Percona Server for MongoDB is a fully compatible source-available, drop-in replacement for MongoDB.
  • Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for achieving consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets.

More information can be found in our documentation.

What is the difference between MongoDB Atlas and Percona?
Percona Distribution for MongoDB is a freely available, enterprise-grade MongoDB alternative. It offers many features and benefits on par with products like MongoDB Atlas and MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. You can view a full feature comparison here.

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