Amazon RDS vs MySQL
Amazon RDS
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MySQL
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| Figure | Amazon RDS | MySQL |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 18 |
| Spec score · Database Proxy Software | 8.9 (#3) | 9.1 (#1) |
| Spec score · Database Performance Monitoring Software | 8.8 (#3) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Spec score · Spatial Databases | 8.9 (#5) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Spec score · Relational Databases | 8.8 (#5) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Spec score · Database Software | 8.8 (#14) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Spec score · Transaction Data Store Software | 8.7 (#7) | 8.9 (#5) |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| High availability | Multi-AZ deployments synchronously replicate data and automatically fail over to a standby instance. | MySQL includes Group Replication, InnoDB Cluster and replication features for fault tolerance, failover, scale-out and high availability. |
Plans
Amazon RDS
- AWS Free TierFree
- AWS Free Tier for RDSFree
- On-demandPrice not published
- On-Demand InstancesPrice not published
- Reserved InstancePrice not published
- Reserved InstancesPrice not published
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
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.