percona-server

Install command:
brew install percona-server

Also known as: percona-server@8.4

Drop-in MySQL replacement

https://www.percona.com

License: BSD-3-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/percona-server.json

Formula code: percona-server.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 8.4.11-11

Other versions:

percona-server@8.0 8.0.46-37 Drop-in MySQL replacement

Revision: 2

Depends on:

abseil 20260817.0 C++ Common Libraries
icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
libfido2 1.17.0 Provides library functionality for FIDO U2F & FIDO 2.0, including USB
lz4 1.10.0 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
openldap 2.7.1 Open source suite of directory software
openssl@3 3.6.4 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit
protobuf 36.1 Protocol buffers (Google's data interchange format)
zlib-ng-compat 2.3.3 Zlib replacement with optimizations for next generation systems
zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

bison 3.8.2 Parser generator
cmake 4.4.3 Cross-platform make
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: curl, cyrus-sasl, krb5, libedit

Conflicts with: mariadb (because percona, mariadb, and mysql install the same binaries), mysql (because percona, mariadb, and mysql install the same binaries)

Binaries: comp_err, create_id_token, ibd2sdi, innochecksum, ldb, my_print_defaults, myisam_ftdump, myisamchk, myisamlog, myisampack, mysql, mysql.server, mysql_client_test, mysql_config, mysql_config_editor, mysql_keyring_encryption_test, mysql_migrate_keyring, mysql_secure_installation, mysql_test_event_tracking, mysql_tzinfo_to_sql, mysqladmin, mysqlbinlog, mysqlcheck, mysqld, mysqld_multi, mysqld_safe, mysqldump, mysqldumpslow, mysqlimport, mysqlrouter, mysqlrouter_keyring, mysqlrouter_passwd, mysqlrouter_plugin_info, mysqlshow, mysqlslap, mysqltest, mysqltest_safe_process, mysqlxtest, perror, ps-admin, ps_mysqld_helper, sst_dump

Service:

Start now and at login: brew services start percona-server
Run directly: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/percona-server/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/mysql
We've installed your MySQL database without a root password. To secure it run:
     mysql_secure_installation

MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default

To connect run:
     mysql -u root

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