Amazon RDS vs ClearDB

Overview

Amazon RDS

Stacks16.1K

Followers10.8K

Votes761

ClearDB

Stacks27

Followers83

Votes28

Amazon RDS vs ClearDB: What are the differences?

What is Amazon RDS? Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.

What is ClearDB? Fault tolerant database-as-a-service in the cloud for your MySQL powered applications. ClearDB uses a combination of advanced replication techniques, advanced cluster technology, and layered web services to provide you with a MySQL database that is "smarter" than usual.

Amazon RDS and ClearDB can be categorized as "SQL Database as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Amazon RDS are:

Pre-configured Parameters
Monitoring and Metrics
Automatic Software Patching

On the other hand, ClearDB provides the following key features:

Global Multi-Master Design- ClearDB uses geo-distributed MySQL database configurations for the ultimate in database availability, survivability, and performance. Even if whole cloud regions go offline, your database will stay online.
Completely Fault Tolerant- ClearDB is the only cloud database in the market today that offers true multi-regional read/write mirroring with 100% uptime, even if networks or disks fail.
Native MySQL- Our clusters use native MySQL so that you don't have to worry about re-tuning your applications to work with ClearDB.

"Reliable failovers" is the primary reason why developers consider Amazon RDS over the competitors, whereas "Cloud SQL" was stated as the key factor in picking ClearDB.

Airbnb, Netflix, and Coursera are some of the popular companies that use Amazon RDS, whereas ClearDB is used by Salesforce, Movielala, and Skype. Amazon RDS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1435 company stacks & 526 developers stacks; compared to ClearDB, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Amazon RDS, ClearDB

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Jun 28, 2021

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Hi, I'm a beginner at using MySQL, I currently deployed my crud app on Heroku using the ClearDB add-on. I didn't see that coming, but the increased value of the primary key instead of being 1 is set to 10, and I cannot find a way to change it. Now I`m considering switching and deploying the full app and MySql to DigitalOcean any advice on that? Will I get the same issue? Thanks in advance!

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Phillip

Developer at Coach Align

Mar 18, 2021

Decided

Using on-demand read/write capacity while we scale our userbase - means that we're well within the free-tier on AWS while we scale the business and evaluate traffic patterns.

Using single-table design, which is dead simple using Jeremy Daly's dynamodb-toolbox library

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon RDS	ClearDB
Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.	ClearDB uses a combination of advanced replication techniques, advanced cluster technology, and layered web services to provide you with a MySQL database that is "smarter" than usual.
Pre-configured Parameters;Monitoring and Metrics;Automatic Software Patching;Automated Backups;DB Snapshots;DB Event Notifications;Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) Deployments;Provisioned IOPS;Push-Button Scaling;Automatic Host Replacement;Replication;Isolation and Security	Global Multi-Master Design- ClearDB uses geo-distributed MySQL database configurations for the ultimate in database availability, survivability, and performance. Even if whole cloud regions go offline, your database will stay online.;Completely Fault Tolerant- ClearDB is the only cloud database in the market today that offers true multi-regional read/write mirroring with 100% uptime, even if networks or disks fail.;Native MySQL- Our clusters use native MySQL so that you don't have to worry about re-tuning your applications to work with ClearDB.;Fast, Reliable Support- We have expert database and systems engineers working round the clock to ensure that your database is available, reliable, and secure.;Ultra Secure- We use a combination of 256 bit SSL encryption and client certificates directly in MySQL to secure connections.
Statistics
Stacks 16.1K	Stacks 27
Followers 10.8K	Followers 83
Votes 761	Votes 28
Pros & Cons
Pros 165 Reliable failovers 156 Automated backups 130 Backed by amazon 92 Db snapshots 87 Multi-availability	Pros 7 Cloud SQL 6 Heroku 4 Fast 3 Great Backup 3 Easy to use
Integrations
No integrations available	Heroku Microsoft Azure AppFog

What are some alternatives to Amazon RDS, ClearDB?

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a price point one tenth that of a commercial database while delivering similar performance and availability.

Google Cloud SQL

Run the same relational databases you know with their rich extension collections, configuration flags and developer ecosystem, but without the hassle of self management.

Azure SQL Database

It is the intelligent, scalable, cloud database service that provides the broadest SQL Server engine compatibility and up to a 212% return on investment. It is a database service that can quickly and efficiently scale to meet demand, is automatically highly available, and supports a variety of third party software.

Cloud DB for Mysql

It is a fully managed cloud cache service that enables you to easily configure a MySQL database with a few settings and clicks and operate it reliably with NAVER's optimization settings, and that automatically recovers from failures.

PlanetScaleDB

It is a fully managed cloud native database-as-a-service built on Vitess and Kubernetes. A MySQL compatible highly scalable database. Effortlessly deploy, manage, and monitor your databases in multiple regions and across cloud providers.

DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Build apps and store data in minutes with easy access to one or more databases and sleep better knowing your data is backed up and optimized.

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for MySQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a MySQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Books

It is an immutable double-entry accounting database service. It supports many clients and businesses at global scale, leaning on Google Cloud Spanner and Google Kubernetes Engine to make that possible.

Aiven

A fully-managed and hosted database as a service (DBaaS) that provides enterprises of every size access to secure and scalable open-source database and messaging services on all major clouds across the globe.

Amazon Aurora Serverless

It is an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application's needs. You can run your database on AWS without managing database capacity.