Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is designed to handle mission-critical workloads, ensuring data preservation, security, and protection of revenue streams by providing high availability for business-critical applications, regardless of deployment location. It is an open-source solution for MySQL clustering, eliminating software license fees and reducing IT expenses. PXC minimizes unexpected downtime and data loss through multi-source synchronous replication, ensuring data is saved and available. Galera replication reduces failover time, increasing application availability and improving user experience. Optimized configuration settings guarantee data consistency across all nodes in the cluster, preventing unsupported actions from impacting business applications. Enhanced encryption features provide a more secure storage and communication layer for the MySQL environment. The solution increases DBA efficiency through easy integration with Percona Monitoring and Management, offering a single tool to manage and monitor MySQL cluster environments, enabling quick identification and resolution of performance issues. PXC improves scalability across multiple cores and uses memory more efficiently, lowering hardware needs and reducing TCO. It enhances the performance of MySQL databases, achieving high I/O operations per second on solid-state hardware for faster data operations. Flexibility to add or remove nodes based on application demands optimizes the cluster environment, while Kubernetes support allows for automated provisioning of additional nodes to meet changing business demands.