INTERVIEW Percona CEO Peter Farkas reckons AI caught the database industry off guard and that agentic workloads may eventually require a new kind of database – once anyone works out what those workloads actually need. Farkas spoke to The Register at the company's Percona Live event in Amsterdam, where members of the often-fractious open source database community gathered to discuss best practices, case studies, and the future. Percona provides software and support across a growing range of open source database technologies. Over its 20-year history, it has worked with MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Valkey, and Redis. MySQL's first release arrived in 1995. The PostgreSQL project marked its 30th anniversary in July 2026, although its roots in...
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