Whois & Analysis for percona.com

MySQL (officially pronounced as "My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius' daughter, and "SQL", the abbreviation for Structured Query Language.

The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

MySQL was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.

For proprietary use, several paid editions are available, and offer additional functionality.

MongoDB (from humongous) is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program.

Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas.

MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc. and is free and open-source, published under a combination of the GNU Affero General Public License and the Apache License.

Percona is an open source software company specializing in MySQL, MongoDB, and other open source database support, consulting, managed services, and training.

The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The company launched a MySQL backup service in June 2014 as part of its managed services.

The company contributes to the open source MySQL community through its blog site, the MySQL Performance blog.

The company also hosts annual open source database user conferences named "Percona Live" in Silicon Valley and Europe.

The company's founders have also published the O'Reilly book "High Performance MySQL.".

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.

It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in either privately owned, or third-party data centers that may be located far from the user–ranging in distance from across a city to across the world.

Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over an electricity network.

Enterprise software, also known as enterprise application software (EAS), is computer software used to satisfy the needs of an organization rather than individual users.

Such organizations would include businesses, schools, interest-based user groups, clubs, charities, or governments.

Enterprise software is an integral part of a (computer-based) information system.