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Amazon RDS for Aurora vs Rackspace Cloud Database: What are the differences?

Developers describe Amazon RDS for Aurora as "MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database with several times better performance". Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability. On the other hand, Rackspace Cloud Database is detailed as "Get a performance-optimized database for your application in minutes". It gives you simple, on-demand provisioning and open APIs—so you can deploy MySQL, Percona Server, or MariaDB with minimal effort. It is available in all of our global data centers, and it's backed by MySQL experts who tackle the management challenge for you.

Amazon RDS for Aurora and Rackspace Cloud Database belong to "SQL Database as a Service" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amazon RDS for Aurora are:

  • High Throughput with Low Jitter
  • Push-button Compute Scaling
  • Storage Auto-scaling

On the other hand, Rackspace Cloud Database provides the following key features:

  • 24x7x365 monitoring
  • Spend less time managing infrastructure
  • Performance Optimized
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Pros of Amazon Aurora
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Database
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    MySQL compatibility
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    Better performance
  • 10
    Easy read scalability
  • 9
    Speed
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    Low latency read replica
  • 2
    High IOPS cost
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      Vendor locking
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      What is Amazon Aurora?

      Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability.

      What is Rackspace Cloud Database?

      It gives you simple, on-demand provisioning and open APIs—so you can deploy MySQL, Percona Server, or MariaDB with minimal effort. It is available in all of our global data centers, and it's backed by MySQL experts who tackle the management challenge for you.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

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        Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.
        Google Cloud SQL
        Run the same relational databases you know with their rich extension collections, configuration flags and developer ecosystem, but without the hassle of self management.
        Azure SQL Database
        It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.
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        PlanetScaleDB
        It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. A MySQL compatible highly scalable database. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.
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