I don’t know if anyone can advise anything around ODBC plugins with Percona MySQL.
I have tried three different ODBC connectors to try and join SPSS to data in a Percona DB server. Each plugin informs me that I require MySQL enterprise or Commercial for the plugin to work. This includes the Progress Direct Plugin seems to have this problem, this is confusing as SPSS state that this shouldn’t have a problem connecting to community versions of MySQL.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/data-direct-odbc-drivers-53-support-only-mysql-enterprise-edition