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."
"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."
"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."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"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 can solve things better than MySQL. Maria DB has better performance than MySQL."
"I haven't faced any technical issues with the product, and it works fine."
"Installation is straightforward."
"I am editing."
"The performance is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it uses multiple cores, which is better than some of the other databases."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it is an open-source product and offers its users great online community support."
"MariaDB is a fast and flexible tool."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"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."
"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 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 price could be less expensive."
"The dashboard and pricing need improvement."
"The license should be cheaper and closer to that offered by MySQL, Oracle and other products."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements in the scalability and redundancy features."
"MariaDB's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution should do some fine-tuning on maybe the transaction per second so that users can get more than they can on the Microsoft SQL Server."
"I would like to see a better user interface which would make the tool less complex."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 10th 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, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL and SQLite. See our Amazon Aurora vs. MariaDB report.
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