MySQL vs Open Diffix
MySQL
mysql.comOpen Diffix
open-diffix.orgSide by side
| Figure | MySQL | Open Diffix |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 18 | 0 |
| Spec score · Data Masking Software | 8.9 (#2) | 7.2 (#17) |
| Support | MySQL Enterprise technical support provides 24x7 direct access to MySQL support engineers. | The maker invites questions and requests for help or advice by email and bug reports or feature requests through GitHub issues. |
Plans
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
Open Diffix
Open Diffix is a free, open-source project for anonymizing structured data, available through APIs and self-hosted deployments on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Its SynDiffix Python package generates statistically accurate synthetic data with strong anonymity. It is aimed especially at descriptive analysis, including histograms, heatmaps, column correlations, counts, averages, and standard deviations. You can generate a separate synthetic table for each analytic task and distribute a blob from which others create tables after installing SynDiffix. The project says this approach can preserve anonymity across many column combinations, but blobs currently do not scale well beyond about 10 columns. SynDiffix installs with pip and requires Python 3.10 or later. It can also support machine learning, though the maker says ML use is somewhat less easy. For data containing multiple rows per protected entity, provide the entity identifier separately or anonymity may be compromised. Open Diffix also includes pg_diffix, a PostgreSQL extension for aggregate anonymized answers to a very limited SQL subset; development is paused.