We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and MariaDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"MariaDB has a straightforward initial setup with easy-to-understand documentation."
"From a customer perspective, MariaDB is a good choice for cluster configuration. It's also easy to operate and cheap."
"The speed and functionality are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is a relational database, which is fairly reliable...It is a stable solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's easy to set up."
"It is an absolutely stable solution."
"This solution is user-friendly."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"Document caching is an area of concern in the product, where improvements are required to help MariaDB improve on the previous queries as they are retained, and you can roll back to them."
"The PL/SQL performance is slow if you have big batch jobs running overnight."
"The solution can improve by having support for more integration. However, at this time it is working well for us."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"It would be helpful if I could specify multiple drives for the database storage."
"MariaDB's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The GUI could be improved a bit. The user interface needs to be improved."
"The customer service and support are okay. But the response time is slow. Moreover, the material is not available freely."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 10th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while MariaDB is ranked 5th in Relational Databases Tools with 51 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while MariaDB is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MariaDB writes "Simultaneously use active server capabilities but lacks the maturity ". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas MariaDB is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Firebird SQL and SQLite. See our Amazon Aurora vs. MariaDB report.
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