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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. MariaDB Platform

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon RDS

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.N/A

    MariaDB Platform

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AMariaDB is an open-source relational database made by the original developers of MySQL, supported by the MariaDB Foundation and a community of developers. The community states recent additional capabilities as including clustering with Galera Cluster 4, compatibility with Oracle Database, and Temporal Data Tables, allowing one to query the data as it stood at any point in the past.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon RDSMariaDB Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
    $0.24 ($0.48)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MariaDB
    $0.25 ($0.50)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for MySQL
    $0.29 ($0.58)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for Oracle
    $0.482 ($0.964)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
    Amazon RDS for SQL Server
    $1.02 ($1.52)
    per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon RDSMariaDB Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon RDSMariaDB Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon RDS
    Amazon Relational Database Service manages MariaDB and MySQL, so if you need to use those databases, then Amazon Relational Database Service will manage everything from the installation to the incremental updates needed for operation. Not having to worry about maintaining a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon RDS
    Every traditional rational Database requires server installation & accessing needs to be monitored periodically manually.
    But Amazon provides easy-to-access and monitor health and scale-up and scale-down option just by clicks without adding any additional hardware.
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon RDS
    It's hard to identify how Amazon RDS stacks up against the databases they support, because to install and use a relational database in a production environment you need a Database Administrator to help install, configure and manage. Amazon RDS keeps the details simple enough …
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon RDS
    Automated snap-shotting every 24 hours is, again something that I could just set up in minutes with a few clicks, though we also backup on cron jobs to elsewhere, and, because of our industry we have a HUGE "forensic logs" that initially live in the database but get archived …
    Incentivized
    MariaDB
    Chose MariaDB Platform
    MariaDB provided the best fit for our business in upgrading legacy systems which were originally designed to use MySQL as a backend. By using MariaDB, no changes to the overall systems needed to be altered, reducing the time needed to upgrade everything. Other solutions …
    Incentivized
    Chose MariaDB Platform
    We migrated away from MySQL because of stability issues; when choosing a new database system we considered FirebirdSQL (having some experience from other projects) and did not use it because of stability and lack of standard SQL features in its query language; and Amazon's …
    Incentivized
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon RDSMariaDB Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (130 ratings)
    10.0
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (13 ratings)
    8.7
    (16 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)