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What are some alternatives to Amazon RDS?
Amazon Redshift, Apache Aurora, MySQL, Oracle, and Heroku Postgres are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Amazon RDS.
Amazon Redshift
Fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service
Why people like Amazon Redshift:
- Data Warehousing
- Scalable
- SQL
- Backed by Amazon
Apache Aurora
An Apcahe Mesos framework for scheduling jobs, originally developed by Twitter
MySQL
The world's most popular open source database
Why people like MySQL:
- Sql
- Free
- Easy
- Widely used
Oracle
An RDBMS that implements object-oriented features such as user-defined types, inheritance, and polymorphism
Why people like Oracle:
- Reliable
- Enterprise
- High Availability
- Maintainable
Heroku Postgres
Heroku's Database-as-a-Service. Based on the most powerful open-source database, PostgreSQL
Why people like Heroku Postgres:
- Easy to setup
- Dataclips for sharing queries
- Extremely reliable
- Follower databases
Google Cloud SQL
Store and manage data using a fully-managed, relational MySQL database
Why people like Google Cloud SQL:
- Fully managed
- Backed by Google
- SQL
- Flexible
Azure SQL Database
Managed, intelligent SQL in the cloud
Amazon RDS for Aurora
MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database with several times better performance
Why people like Amazon RDS for Aurora:
- MySQL compatibility
- Better performance
- Easy read scalability
- Speed
ClearDB
Fault tolerant database-as-a-service in the cloud for your MySQL powered applications.
Why people like ClearDB:
- Cloud SQL
- Heroku
- Fast
- Great Backup
Managed MySQL database service for app developers
Fully hosted and managed database engines for your applications, so you can focus on building, not patching
TempoDB
Store & analyze time series data from sensors, smart meters, servers & more
Get a performance-optimized database for your application in minutes