Percona Live Amsterdam to unite open source database users

Percona will host Percona Live Amsterdam in the Netherlands, describing it as the largest independent open source database conference.

The event will bring together engineers, architects and developers focused on open source database systems, with sessions covering MySQL, PostgreSQL, Valkey, MongoDB and MariaDB.

The agenda includes more than 50 presentations from companies including Booking.com, Mastercard, Oracle, BBVA, Wise, SUSE, Nomura and Yandex Cloud. Topics range from database pipelines and auditing to query tuning, data retention, multi-region deployments and migration from Hadoop NoSQL to Percona Server for MongoDB.

The event will also feature a keynote from Peter Farkas, Chief Executive Officer of Percona. He is expected to address how open source depends on licensing and related conditions to work effectively.

The conference highlights the continuing importance of open source databases in large organisations running critical applications across multiple regions and regulatory environments. Attendees are set to discuss technical and operational issues including resilience, sovereignty, optimisation and infrastructure design.

In comments released with the announcement, Farkas pointed to pressure on database teams from regulation and broader economic conditions.

"Percona Live brings the open source community together around the changing landscape for databases, including how different technology shifts and macro-economic conditions might affect technology teams. Database teams have to deal with issues like sovereignty, resilience and with regulation affecting their working processes, while still delivering the performance and security that their organizations expect around their data. At Percona Live Amsterdam, we will have experts from some of the world's biggest database deployment teams sharing insights on the latest advances in their infrastructure, and how their teams have been taking advantage of new innovations in open source," said Peter Farkas, Chief Executive Officer of Percona.

Community focus

Beyond vendor and user presentations, the programme will include a range of community-led projects. These include the OurSQL Foundation, PostgreSQL contributors discussing the run-up to version 19, and projects such as MyVector, MyDumper and OpenEverest.

Those projects reflect the breadth of the open source database ecosystem around core engines and related tools. Backup, provisioning, vector search and developer community building will feature alongside mainstream database administration and infrastructure topics.

Percona also listed BuildDevCon and Comunidade MySQL Brazil among the groups involved. That mix suggests the event is intended not only as a corporate conference, but also as a meeting point for maintainers, practitioners and regional user communities.

Sponsors include VillageSQL, AWS, Liberatii, Solanica, Coroot, Readyset, ProxySQL and Sixta. Their presence underlines the commercial market that has grown around open source database software, support and associated tooling.

The conference brings Percona Live back to Europe, where database users face a distinct set of policy and infrastructure questions, particularly around sovereignty and compliance. Those themes have become more prominent as organisations reassess where data is stored, how systems are isolated and which suppliers they depend on.

Laura Czajkowski, Director of Community at Percona, said the in-person format remains important for the open source database sector.

"Bringing Percona Live back to Europe this year is something I've been looking forward to for a long time. Our community is at its best in person - this is where the real conversations happen, the connections get made, and the open source projects we all rely on get stronger. Percona Live Amsterdam is about more than talks and sessions; it's where our community comes together to share what they've built and learn from each other, and I'm genuinely excited for the chance to meet the people who make this community what it is, face to face," said Czajkowski.