DATASKOPE vs TencentDB for MySQL Database Proxy

DATASKOPE monitors, analyzes, alerts on, and reports database activity in real time. It records who accessed sensitive data, where access came from, which transactions occurred, and when. Audit visibility can be limited by user, database, table, and command. Recorded operations include SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and EXEC, showing what changed and by whom. DATASKOPE tracks successful and unsuccessful logins plus administrative actions such as creating or deleting users. Predefined alarm rules classify database events and notify responsible people. Its NoSQL search engine distributes searches across nodes and is described as scaling horizontally and vertically. Audit data can be automatically backed up and archived, with geographic replication and local redundancy. The product supports multiple database engines and is presented for activity monitoring, access governance, audit reporting, and threat detection. Pricing is not published; Plainex offers contact and demo requests.

TencentDB for MySQL Database Proxy is a managed service positioned between an application and TencentDB for MySQL. Applications connect through a proxy address while the service routes reads to read-only instances and writes to the source instance. Connection pooling reduces the burden of frequent or excessive new connections, and transaction splitting can separate reads and writes within transactions. A multi-node cluster across availability zones supports failover. Proxy resources are isolated per instance, with stated capacity of up to 100,000 requests per second per proxy. Nodes can scale from 1 to 60, while request, CPU, and memory metrics are monitored at second-level granularity. Configuration can be hot-loaded after source switches, changes, or read-only instance changes without disconnecting or restarting. Access modes either balance connections across nodes or select a nearby node. Supported databases are MySQL 5.7, MySQL 8.0, and the TencentDB read-only analysis engine. The pay-as-you-go plan is listed at $0.07 a month, with regional CU pricing details.