# About the Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 category

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**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.7\
**Created:** [December 30, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/about-the-percona-server-for-mysql-5-7-category/23 "2020-12-30T16:18:21Z")\
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Percona Server for MySQL® is a free, fully compatible, enhanced and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database. It provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation.