MySQL vs PoWA
MySQL
mysql.comPoWA
powa.readthedocs.ioSide by side
| Figure | MySQL | PoWA |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 18 | 1 |
| Spec score · Database Monitoring | 9.1 (#2) | 7.6 (#19) |
| Support | MySQL Enterprise technical support provides 24x7 direct access to MySQL support engineers. | The documentation directs users to community IRC and GitHub issue trackers for component-specific support. |
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
PoWA
PoWA is a free, self-hosted tool for monitoring and tuning PostgreSQL. It collects and aggregates performance metrics from database instances and presents them in charts. Local mode handles one instance; remote mode gathers metrics from multiple instances into a repository server and can include read-only standbys without restarting PostgreSQL when adding them. The project combines the powa-archivist extension and powa-web interface, with an optional powa-collector daemon for remote deployments. Supported statistics extensions include pg_stat_statements, pg_qualstats, pg_stat_kcache, pg_wait_sampling, and pg_track_settings; pg_stat_statements is mandatory, and the current version targets PostgreSQL 9.4 and newer. HypoPG support enables testing hypothetical indexes without creating real ones. PoWA 5 adds datasource views for replication, background writer, checkpointer, SLRU, WAL, and PostgreSQL 16 or newer I/O statistics, plus per-database snapshots. Metrics can be enabled or disabled, and custom extensions added without modifying PoWA.