Amazon RDS vs Azure Database for MySQL vs Google Cloud SQL

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Decisions about Amazon RDS, Azure Database for MySQL, and Google Cloud SQL
Phillip Manwaring
Developer at Coach Align · | 5 upvotes · 25.7K views

Using on-demand read/write capacity while we scale our userbase - means that we're well within the free-tier on AWS while we scale the business and evaluate traffic patterns.

Using single-table design, which is dead simple using Jeremy Daly's dynamodb-toolbox library

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Pros of Amazon RDS
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    Reliable failovers
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    Automated backups
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    Backed by amazon
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    Db snapshots
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    Multi-availability
  • 30
    Control iops, fast restore to point of time
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    Security
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    Elastic
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    Push-button scaling
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    Automatic software patching
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    Replication
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    Reliable
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    Isolation
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      Fully managed
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      Backed by Google
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      SQL
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      Flexible
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      Encryption at rest and transit
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      Automatic Software Patching
    • 3
      Replication across multiple zone by default

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    What is Amazon RDS?

    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.

    What is Azure Database for MySQL?

    Azure Database for MySQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a MySQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

    What is 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.

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    What are some alternatives to Amazon RDS, Azure Database for MySQL, and Google Cloud SQL?
    Amazon Redshift
    It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
    Apache Aurora
    Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.
    MySQL
    The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
    Oracle
    Oracle Database is an RDBMS. An RDBMS that implements object-oriented features such as user-defined types, inheritance, and polymorphism is called an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). Oracle Database has extended the relational model to an object-relational model, making it possible to store complex business models in a relational database.
    Heroku Postgres
    Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.
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