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  5. Amazon RDS vs Apache Aurora

Amazon RDS vs Apache Aurora

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Overview

Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Stacks16.1K
Followers10.8K
Votes761
Apache Aurora
Apache Aurora
Stacks69
Followers96
Votes0

Amazon RDS vs Apache Aurora: What are the differences?

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; Apache Aurora: An Apcahe Mesos framework for scheduling jobs, originally developed by Twitter. Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.

Amazon RDS and Apache Aurora are primarily classified as "SQL Database as a Service" and "Cluster Management" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Amazon RDS are:

  • Pre-configured Parameters
  • Monitoring and Metrics
  • Automatic Software Patching

On the other hand, Apache Aurora provides the following key features:

  • Deployment and scheduling of jobs
  • The abstraction a “job” to bundle and manage Mesos tasks
  • A rich DSL to define services

Apache Aurora is an open source tool with 616 GitHub stars and 231 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache Aurora's open source repository on GitHub.

Airbnb, Netflix, and Coursera are some of the popular companies that use Amazon RDS, whereas Apache Aurora is used by Twitter, Oscar Health, and Medallia. Amazon RDS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1437 company stacks & 526 developers stacks; compared to Apache Aurora, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Apache Aurora
Apache Aurora

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.

Apache Aurora is a service scheduler that runs on top of Mesos, enabling you to run long-running services that take advantage of Mesos' scalability, fault-tolerance, and resource isolation.

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
Deployment and scheduling of jobs;The abstraction a “job” to bundle and manage Mesos tasks;A rich DSL to define services;Health checking;Failure domain diversity;Instant provisioning
Statistics
Stacks
16.1K
Stacks
69
Followers
10.8K
Followers
96
Votes
761
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 165
    Reliable failovers
  • 156
    Automated backups
  • 130
    Backed by amazon
  • 92
    Db snapshots
  • 87
    Multi-availability
No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available
Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos
Vagrant
Vagrant

What are some alternatives to Amazon RDS, Apache Aurora?

Amazon Aurora

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

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.

Nomad

Nomad

Nomad is a cluster manager, designed for both long lived services and short lived batch processing workloads. Developers use a declarative job specification to submit work, and Nomad ensures constraints are satisfied and resource utilization is optimized by efficient task packing. Nomad supports all major operating systems and virtualized, containerized, or standalone applications.

Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

ClearDB

ClearDB

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.

Azure SQL Database

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.

DC/OS

DC/OS

Unlike traditional operating systems, DC/OS spans multiple machines within a network, aggregating their resources to maximize utilization by distributed applications.

Mesosphere

Mesosphere

Mesosphere offers a layer of software that organizes your machines, VMs, and cloud instances and lets applications draw from a single pool of intelligently- and dynamically-allocated resources, increasing efficiency and reducing operational complexity.

Gardener

Gardener

Many Open Source tools exist which help in creating and updating single Kubernetes clusters. However, the more clusters you need the harder it becomes to operate, monitor, manage and keep all of them alive and up-to-date. And that is exactly what project Gardener focuses on.

YARN Hadoop

YARN Hadoop

Its fundamental idea is to split up the functionalities of resource management and job scheduling/monitoring into separate daemons. The idea is to have a global ResourceManager (RM) and per-application ApplicationMaster (AM).

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