We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and MySQL 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 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 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 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."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"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."
"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."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The deployment process is pretty fast."
"The product is flexible and easy to use."
"This product is a good teaching tool for students who want to learn about networked databases."
"This is a lightweight product that is not demanding on the resources, which is what I think gives it the edge."
"We use MySQL for enterprise data storage as well as part of the back-end of websites and web applications."
"The relations in the database, the dynamic workflow, and the ability to connect with all columns. It's useful for e-commerce."
"Support for enterprise-grade features like clustering, master-slave replication, even Sharding (to some extent) which is an advanced feature."
"Setup is easy. MySQL of various flavours has community editions to easily test, deploy, and run."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"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."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"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 product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"Improvements are required in character set support, scalability, and big data sets."
"The documentation is pretty weak and should be improved."
"Could use some additional JSON query support in the solution."
"Sometimes, I get lost in the toggles and buttons, and a better visual design would be nice. The layout is not user-friendly or efficient."
"MySQL tutorials and guides could be improved. Often they are too complex for someone with no database experience to understand."
"If the customer is already using or has already used Oracle for a long time they will know the look and feel and the character of this database that can fit into their business."
"Even for the best database, we always want the database to perform much better, so we wish MySQL would be much better, in terms of performance."
"The user interface could be more user friendly. Mainly because most of the times we see black and white digital lines. Something like Python."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while MySQL is ranked 4th in Relational Databases Tools with 142 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while MySQL 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 MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, CockroachDB and SAP HANA, whereas MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and Tableau. See our Amazon Aurora vs. MySQL report.
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