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."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."
"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."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"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 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."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature of MariaDB is that it is open-source and we can easily migrate from other databases, such as Oracle to MariaDB."
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"The solution's high availability is its most valuable aspect."
"What I like best about MariaDB is that it is open-source and reliable."
"The documentation is quite straightforward."
"From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap."
"MariaDB has a straightforward initial setup with easy-to-understand documentation."
"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."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"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 pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"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."
"Integration with AWS could be improved."
"It would be good if they can maybe improve the mass import in the database. Currently, for importing a large number of data, we create a CSV file and upload all the things in the system. The system does not activate them by default. We have to do this manually. This may be due to the version we are using, but this is something we would like to see improved."
"We'd like more data intelligence."
"There is room for improvement in terms of security."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"The GUI could be improved a bit. The user interface needs to be improved."
"The license should be cheaper and closer to that offered by MySQL, Oracle and other products."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 52 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 "Easy to deploy, cost-effective, and integrates seamlessly with other products". 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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