Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL®, MongoDB® and other open source database solutions and services, announced the success of Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017, which took place September 25-27, 2017 at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe is the premier event for individuals and businesses developing and using open source software. The conference theme this year was "Championing Open Source Databases," and the event included more than 100 speakers sharing their in-depth knowledge with more than 350 attendees.

"This year's Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe demonstrated how open source database solutions are powering digital transformation and enabling organizations of all sizes and across all industries to innovate and grow rapidly," said Peter Zaitsev, co-founder and CEO of Percona. "Once again, I want to thank all our champions of open source databases - our sponsors, speakers and attendees - for taking time to share their knowledge and insights to create an inspiring environment of learning and community."

Keynote Addresses and Breakout Sessions
This year's Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe featured 11 keynote addresses (available on YouTube) and more than 100 informative tutorials and breakout sessions, including:

• Championing Open Source Databases - Peter Zaitsev, Percona
• MySQL as a Layered Service: How to Use ProxySQL to Control Traffic and Scale Out - Rene Cannao, ProxySQL
• Real Time DNS Analytics at Cloudflare with ClickHouse - Tom Arnfeld, Cloudflare
• Why Open Sourcing Our Database Tooling Was the Smart Decision - Shlomi Noach, GitHub
• MyRocks at Facebook and a Roadmap - Yoshinori Matsunobu, Facebook
• Prometheus for Monitoring Metrics - Brian Brazil, Prometheus/Robust Perception
• State of the Dolphin - Geir Høydalsvik, Oracle
• Many Faces of Continuent Tungsten - MC Brown, Continuent
• Database Performance in High Traffic Environments - Pavel Genov, Pepper
• MySQL 8.0: Atomic DDLs - Implementation and Impact - Ståle Deraas, Oracle
• RocksDB Static Sorted Table (SST) Formats: Considerations When Building a Search Engine - Tarek Sheasha, Booking.com
• High Performance JSON - PostgreSQL vs. MongoDB - Wei Shan Ang and Dominic Dwyer, GlobalSign
• Automating and Managing MongoDB: An Analysis of Ops Manager vs. ClusterControl - Ruairí Newman, Severalnines AB
• Building Multi-Petabyte Data Warehouses with ClickHouse - Alexander Zaitsev, LifeStreet/Altinity
• Scaling and Hardware Provisioning for Databases: Lessons Learned at Wikipedia - Jaime Crespo, Wikimedia Foundation

Sponsorships
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 was made possible through the support of the following sponsors:

• Diamond Sponsor - Continuent
• Gold Sponsors - Facebook, VividCortex
• Exhibitor Sponsors - Altinity, Ispirer, PGDAY Russia '17, Rackspace, Severalnines, TimescaleDB
• Contributor Sponsors - Webyog, Oracle MySQL
• Media Sponsors - CMSWire, Datanami, InsideBigData, InsideHPC, ODBMS.org, Opensource.com, O'Reilly Media

The Next Percona Live Conference

What: Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 
Where: Santa Clara, Calif. 
When: April 23-25, 2018

The call for papers for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018 will be opened soon, look to the conference landing page for news and updates.