Percona Live Amsterdam 2026
as the organisers put it
Percona Live 2026 in Amsterdam is the premier open-source database conference, featuring deep technical sessions on MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Valkey, and emerging data innovations.
who it's for
database administrators, MySQL developers, PostgreSQL developers, MongoDB engineers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, open source maintainers
topics
Percona binlog server; built-in vector search in MySQL; ClickHouse columnar with LSM ingestion; DuckDB embeddable Parquet workflows; MySQL Kubernetes operator autoconfig; Percona Server for MariaDB fork; Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3; Percona Search and local embeddings; VillageSQL VAF extension framework; PMM observability with OpenTelemetry and AI assistant; KeyDB RocksDB backend; PostgreSQL Transparent Data Encryption patches
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| I Was Going to Show You a Roadmap | Marco Tusa | 18m |
Percona states concrete actions: a Binlog server is produced and slated to evolve from a lightweight tool into a full product, vector capabilities land inside… | ||
| Columnstore Revolution | Peter Zaitsev, Alexy Milovidov, Hannes Mühleisen | 28m |
ClickHouse claims to handle billions of daily clickstream rows and delivers two orders of magnitude faster analytic scans than legacy MySQL, powering… | ||
| Stop Hand Tuning MySQL Teach Kubernetes Operator | Slava Sarzhan, Kate Obiidykhata | 14m |
Percona’s MySQL Kubernetes operator adds an auto config Go library that computes config from pod CPU/memory limits and workload type and writes a ConfigMap… | ||
| MariaDB at Percona | Tarus Balog | 12m |
Percona commits to making MariaDB a first-class option by delivering Percona Server for MariaDB, forking MaxScale to true open source (MaxScale uses a BSL that… | ||
| Ready for the Agentic Era Where Percona for MongoDB Is Going Next | Radoslaw Szulgo | 19m |
Percona announces Percona Server for MongoDB 8.3 (claims near‑2x time‑series insert speed vs MongoDB 7.0) plus Percona Search for MongoDB 1.7.0 and automatic… | ||
| Eating an Elephant Converting PostgreSQL extensions to MySQL | Dominic Preuss | 27m |
VillageSQL builds a stable VAF extension framework for MySQL that implements about 12 of ~50 Postgres extension capabilities and ships 22 extensions (12… | ||
| PMM Beyond Monitoring Observe, Understand, Act | Tibor Korocz | 15m |
PMM expands from metrics to a closed loop that observes with OpenTelemetry support, understands via an AI assistant that produces root‑cause analysis, and acts… | ||
| Your favourite second database | Kyle J Davis | 14m |
Claims that Valkyien Redis is small enough to learn entire DB in ~8 hours and flexible enough to be the “Pinot Noir” of datastores, pairing with Postgres/MySQL… | ||
| World of Open Source European Spotlight 2026 | Mirko Boehm | 01h 04m |
Annual Europe spotlight previews governance maturity as the deciding factor for open source value capture, reporting half of European orgs maintain private… | ||
| Upstream First Building Databases, AI , Communities, and Trust | Casper Coertze | 30m |
AWS says it actively contributes fixes and features to MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB (Bloom filters, JSON modules, JDBC/ODBC work, PG plan and BGVector… | ||
| Welcome to Percona Live | Peter Farkas | 14m |
Percona celebrates 20 years and reboots Percona Live in Amsterdam, reframing from a MySQL shop to an agnostic open-source data company supporting MySQL… | ||
| Contribution Over Control Open Source Responsibility in PostgreSQL | Jan Wieremjewicz | 12m |
Percona describes concrete contributions to PostgreSQL: 650 emails to hackers, 146 blog posts, 72 conference talk submissions, 16 open-source projects… | ||
| Open Source Database Operations in the Age of AI | Peter Zaitsev | 20m |
AI drives bursts of tiny ephemeral databases and huge data generation, pushing adoption of Neon serverless Postgres and sharded/distributed stores, plus demand… | ||
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