Acra vs MySQL
Acra
cossacklabs.com
MySQL
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| Figure | Acra | MySQL |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $833.33/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 18 |
| Spec score · Cloud Encryption Software | 9.5 (#1) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Support | The maker offers multiple support tiers and describes integration assistance, solution support, and 24/7 solution support among its offerings. | MySQL Enterprise technical support provides 24x7 direct access to MySQL support engineers. |
Plans
Acra
- Acra Community EditionFree
- Acra Enterprise Edition$10,000 a year
- Acra bespoke solutionPriced on request
MySQL
- Community EditionPrice not published
- Community EditionPriced on request
- Standard EditionPriced on request
- Standard EditionPrice not published
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise EditionPrice not published
- Cluster Carrier Grade EditionPriced on request
- Cluster Carrier Grade EditionPrice not published
- MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade EditionPriced on request
- MySQL Enterprise EditionPriced on request
In their own words
Acra
Acra protects sensitive data in SQL and NoSQL databases, web applications and backend applications. It offers field-level and searchable encryption, tokenization and data masking. Teams can deploy it as a transparent SQL proxy, an HTTP/gRPC encryption API or client-side SDKs. AcraServer supports PostgreSQL and MySQL wire protocols, including MySQL 5.7+, PostgreSQL 9.4+ and MariaDB 10.3; listed NoSQL and KV stores include MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra and TimescaleDB. Key-management integrations include Amazon KMS, Google Cloud KMS, HashiCorp Vault, Keywhiz and HSMs. Acra can detect requests for planted poison records or honeytokens, raise alarms and halt decryption. It provides security logging for SIEM/SOC analytics and a crypto-signed audit log. Server components run on Linux, with Docker and Kubernetes-compatible images documented; the maker describes Acra as cloud-agnostic and actively supported on Google Cloud Platform, AWS and DigitalOcean. Windows clients can connect to Acra on Linux, but server components should not run on Windows. Community Edition is free forever for non-profit and business use; Enterprise Edition starts at $10,000 a year, with price dependent on deployments and requested features.