# The Percona Alternative for Postgres-First Teams

> Looking for a Percona alternative for PostgreSQL? Command Prompt is Postgres-dedicated — the same engineers on your systems since 1997, with written EOL support commitments.

# The Percona Alternative

Since 1997, Command Prompt is Postgres-dedicated and here to support your PostgreSQL and Open Source enterprise

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## The Percona Alternative for Postgres-First Teams

Percona is a strong open-source support company whose bench spans MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. Command Prompt does one thing: Postgres and the open source stack around it, since 1997. If Postgres is your primary database, you want specialists, the same engineers who know your environment, every incident.

## Why teams look for a Percona alternative

Percona earned its reputation in MySQL, and its open-source ethos is genuine. Teams who come to us from a multi-database vendor usually say some version of:

  *  **"Postgres is our main database, and we want a Postgres-first partner."** A generalist bench covers three ecosystems; depth on any one of them is diluted by design.
  *  **"We want the same engineers each time."** Large support organizations rotate; context gets rebuilt on every ticket.
  *  **"We need more than the database supported."** Incidents rarely respect the boundary between Postgres, Linux, and the application layer.



What  |  Command Prompt  |  Percona   
---|---|---  
Focus  |  PostgreSQL and its open source stack, exclusively  |  MySQL + MongoDB + PostgreSQL   
Postgres history  |  Since Postgres95 (1997)  |  Postgres practice added to a MySQL-origin company   
Who answers  |  The engineer who knows your system  |  24/7 global support organization   
Advertised response  |  Under 1 hour for SLA clients, 24x7x365  |  15 minutes on mission-critical tiers   
Full-stack scope  |  Postgres + Linux + dev (Python/Ruby) + Ansible + monitoring  |  Database-focused, with managed options (ExpertOps)   
EOL versions  |  PgLTS: 8 years per release, 3 beyond community EOL — published timeline  |  Ask for terms per version   
Pricing  |  Fixed hourly + SLA retainer; no per-instance pricing  |  Subscription tiers   
Ownership  |  Independent, founder-operated  |  Privately held   
How Command Prompt compares

## Who should switch

  * **Postgres is your primary or only database** and you want a partner whose entire bench lives there.
  * You value a **standing engineer relationship** over a ticket queue — someone who already knows your schema, your replication topology, your quirks.
  * You need **written EOL commitments** — our supported-releases timeline is published, per version, through 2033.
  * Your incidents are **full-stack** — you want the same vendor debugging Postgres, the Linux host, and the app connection pool.



## Ready to switch?

Contact us today

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## Who should stay with Percona

If you run a **mixed MySQL + MongoDB + PostgreSQL estate** and consolidating on one support vendor matters more than per-database depth, Percona is built for exactly that. Their open-source tooling (PMM in particular) is good, and their scale suits organizations that want a large global org behind the SLA.

## Switching is a support transition, not a migration

Nothing about your databases changes. A quick phone call, a little paperwork (really) and we will have you up in running in no time.

## Talk to a Postgres engineer

## **Talk to a Postgres engineer**

[Contact us](</contact-us/>) with a description of your environment. See [support plans](</support/>) for engagement options, and [Postgres support](</support/postgres-support/>) for the platforms we cover.

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