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DigitalOcean Managed Databases vs Rackspace Cloud Database: What are the differences?
DigitalOcean Managed Databases: Fully hosted and managed database engines for your applications, so you can focus on building, not patching. Build apps and store data in minutes with easy access to one or more databases and sleep better knowing your data is backed up and optimized; Rackspace Cloud Database: 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.
DigitalOcean Managed Databases and Rackspace Cloud Database can be categorized as "SQL Database as a Service" tools.
Some of the features offered by DigitalOcean Managed Databases are:
- Multi-node database clustering
- Automated failover support
- Daily backups with Point in Time Recovery (7 days)
On the other hand, Rackspace Cloud Database provides the following key features:
- 24x7x365 monitoring
- Spend less time managing infrastructure
- Performance Optimized
