Active Admin vs Percona XtraBackup: What are the differences?

Developers describe Active Admin as "The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications". Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration. On the other hand, Percona XtraBackup is detailed as "Open source, complete database backups solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®". It is a free, online, open source, complete database backups solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®. It performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transactional systems so that applications remain fully available during planned maintenance windows.

Active Admin and Percona XtraBackup are primarily classified as "Ruby Utilities" and "Database" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Active Admin are:

• Global Navigation
• Scopes
• Index Styles

On the other hand, Percona XtraBackup provides the following key features:

• Incremental compressed backups
• Fast incremental backups
• Incremental backups with archived logs

Active Admin and Percona XtraBackup are both open source tools. Active Admin with 8.59K GitHub stars and 3.03K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Percona XtraBackup with 503 GitHub stars and 186 GitHub forks.