diff --git a/pkgs/servers/sql/percona/5.6.x.nix b/pkgs/servers/sql/percona/5.6.x.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a394d5845366
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/sql/percona/5.6.x.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, bison, ncurses, openssl, zlib, libaio, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "percona-server-${version}";
+  version = "5.6.35-80.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-5.6/Percona-Server-${version}/source/tarball/percona-server-${version}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0szjywx902da09pg8yqj8l2acplmh69hn5smrk45i291qsi5m6r5";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ cmake bison ncurses openssl zlib libaio perl ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DFEATURE_SET=community"
+    "-DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release"
+    "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo"
+    "-DWITH_SSL=yes"
+    "-DWITH_READLINE=no"
+    "-DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=no"
+    "-DWITH_EDITLINE=bundled"
+    "-DWITH_ZLIB=yes"
+    "-DHAVE_IPV6=no"
+    "-DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock"
+    "-DMYSQL_DATADIR=/var/lib/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=etc/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_INFODIR=share/mysql/docs"
+    "-DINSTALL_MANDIR=share/man"
+    "-DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR=lib/mysql/plugin"
+    "-DINSTALL_SCRIPTDIR=bin"
+    "-DINSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=include/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_DOCREADMEDIR=share/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_SUPPORTFILESDIR=share/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_MYSQLSHAREDIR=share/mysql"
+    "-DINSTALL_DOCDIR=share/mysql/docs"
+    "-DINSTALL_SHAREDIR=share/mysql"
+  ];
+
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lgcc_s";
+
+  prePatch = ''
+    sed -i -e "s|/usr/bin/libtool|libtool|" cmake/libutils.cmake
+  '';
+  postInstall = ''
+    sed -i -e "s|basedir=\"\"|basedir=\"$out\"|" $out/bin/mysql_install_db
+    rm -r $out/mysql-test $out/sql-bench $out/data "$out"/lib/*.a
+    rm $out/share/man/man1/mysql-test-run.pl.1
+  '';
+
+  passthru.mysqlVersion = "5.6";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "https://www.percona.com";
+    description = "a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation";
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ grahamc ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 353cbc4e375d..63cefddb6d4a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -10898,6 +10898,9 @@ with pkgs;
 
   mongodb248 = callPackage ../servers/nosql/mongodb/2.4.8.nix { };
 
+  percona-server56 = callPackage ../servers/sql/percona/5.6.x.nix { };
+  percona-server = percona-server56;
+
   riak = callPackage ../servers/nosql/riak/2.2.0.nix {
     erlang = erlang_basho_R16B02;
   };