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 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 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."
"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 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 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."
"I like the global transaction IDs (GTIDs) feature. It's quite reliable for replication between a master and a replica server, and it's a feature that MySQL also has but implemented differently."
"MariaDB can solve things better than MySQL. Maria DB has better performance than MySQL."
"It is very simple to install, and the commands are exactly the same as MySQL."
"We like the easy way that we can collect data from other databases."
"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 is stable and the initial setup is straightforward."
"Installation is straightforward."
"The product has good documentation and you can find many examples online."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"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."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"Integration with AWS could be improved."
"It doesn't have the same level of maturity metrics as Postgres."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"The price could be less expensive."
"The difficult part related to the product stems not from the tool itself but is related to learning how to implement the product in the right way without creating any wrong configuration that could cause security issues or performance issues."
"In future releases, mainly the addition of security features would be beneficial for MariaDB."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 10th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 30 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while MariaDB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "User-friendly, performs well and is easy to install, but it is expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Allows for fetching data from multiple correlated or related databases in a single query, user-friendly and easy to handle". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, MySQL and SQLite. See our Amazon Aurora vs. MariaDB report.
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