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Self-hosted / open sourceDatabase & Data ManagementHeadquarters: US

Percona: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Percona develops and supports open-source database software for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey and MongoDB. Its offering covers database distributions, Percona Monitoring and Management, the Percona Toolkit for database administrators, and paid support, consulting and training. Organisations run these products on their own infrastructure or in their own cloud accounts. The vendor describes its MongoDB offering as source-available rather than open source.

Percona LLC is a United States company. Its privacy policy names the US entity and states that personal data is stored on servers in the United States and Canada. The company describes itself as remote-only, with staff in many countries. The vendor's public pages do not describe its ownership beyond a parent group that includes a US-based company. Because the core databases can run on infrastructure chosen by the customer, a European organisation can keep its data in its own environment. Support contracts, however, involve a US provider, and the privacy policy relies on EU-US Data Privacy Framework participation and standard contractual clauses for transfers.

Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (US, OTHER)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelOpen-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hostingUS, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryDatabase & Data Management
TypeProduct
Websitepercona.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Percona

The European alternatives to Percona come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Percona

Percona is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Percona hosts data outside the EU (US, OTHER). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Percona is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Percona together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Percona?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Percona include Aiven, ArangoDB and DuckDB. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Percona?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Percona include DuckDB, Elastic, Firebird SQL, MariaDB and Meilisearch. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Percona GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Percona is headquartered in US and hosts data in US, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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