DB-tools.com - AWS Aurora and MySQL System Comparison

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System

Name

AWS Aurora

MySQL

Version

Version 4.2.8

MySQL 8.0.11 (2018-04-19, General Availability)

Drawbacks

-Does not support a very large database size as efficiently
-Does not support ROLE, COMMIT, and Stored procedures in versions less than 5.0
-Transactions are not handled very efficiently
-It has got a few Stability Issues
-It suffers from Relatively Poor Performance Scaling
-Its functionality Heavily Dependant On Addons

Advantages

Managed RDBMS from AWS

-Open-Source
-Easy To Use
-Support is always readily available
-Inexpensive and still very much industry standard

Languages Supported

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

Perl, PHP, Python, ASP, C, C++, JAVA

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

www.mysql.com

XML Support

yes

JSON Support

yes

Brief description

Aurora is available as part of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Although it is a proprietary technology it offers MySQL compatible service since its release . This was made PostgreSQL compatible since October 2017

-open-source relational database management system
-fast, reliable, scalable, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded sql database server
-works in client/server or embedded systems

Database Model

Relational Database

Relational Database, Supports ER Diagram Model and we can create and manipulate a model graphically

Technical Documentation

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Overview.html

dev.mysql.com/doc/

License

Commercial

MySQL is Open Source, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Cloud-based / SaaS

SaaS Service from AWS

Integrated with Oracle Cloud Services for development and deployment

Implementation Language

C and C++

Operating System Supported

Not Applicable as its managed by AWS

AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-UX, eComStation, i5/OS, IRIX, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, OS/2 Warp, QNX, Oracle Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64

Options for Integration / Access API

Restful HTTP

Both X DevAPI, Connectors & APIs available. Connector/C++ X DevAPI, Connector/J X DevAPI, Connector/NET X DevAPI, Connector/Node.js X DevAPI, Connector/Python X DevAPI, Shell JavaScript API, Shell Python API, PHP Connector, Connector/ODBC, ClusterJ, C API, MySQL for Excel, MySQL for Visual Studio

Consistency

Yes

Foreign Keys

Yes

Streaming Support

Yes

Data Storage Schema

Analytics Support

Notable Users

Most of the startups and SME use this stable open source database.

Key Differentiator

Supports MySQL as a SaaS service (Inno Db Engine). Disk Space provisioning done in 10 GB chunks automatically upto 64 TB.

Was the GoTo Open Source Database. new features have been slow after oracle acquisition.

Concurrency

Yes

Partitioning

Replication

Yes

Secondary Indexes

Yes based on secondary indexes using Solr

Yes

SchemaLess

Yes

SQL Query

Yes

meta-title

MySQL is an open source RDBMS. Free, fully managed, scalable with high availability and security built Database.

meta-desc

MySQL - Most popular free open source RDBMS database (under GPL License), mostly used as LAMP Stack. Its major features are Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursor, Views and Transactions with save point.

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