We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and MariaDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"MariaDB is a fast and flexible tool."
"MariaDB has a straightforward initial setup with easy-to-understand documentation."
"MariaDB is a user-friendly solution. Performance wise, it's better than SQL. With SQL, I would need to write a number of queries. In contrast, MariaDB is light."
"The product has been stable and reliable."
"From the user's perspective, the performance of the columnar queries is very good in terms of the database when comparing it to the Oracle, and MySQL."
"MariaDB performs well as the backend database for our cloud-based telephony solution."
"The stability of MariaDB is good, it has high availability."
"The most valuable feature of MariaDB is the replication mode."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
"The GUI could be improved a bit. The user interface needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"When we have had issues with accidental computer shutdown or a power outage, our MariaDB database was corrupted."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"I'd like to see improved materialized views, like the ability to save select queries. This feature is missing in MariaDB compared to other relational databases like Oracle and SQL Server."
"Master-master replication is something that needs to be simplified."
"One feedback I can quickly provide is the need for a robust IDE for MongoDB. The existing PHP admin console doesn't meet the client's requirements effectively."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while MariaDB is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. See our Amazon Aurora vs. MariaDB report.
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