Amazon RDS vs DigitalOcean Managed Databases vs Google Cloud SQL

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Amazon RDS vs DigitalOcean Managed Databases vs Google Cloud SQL: What are the differences?

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1. **Storage Options**: Amazon RDS offers storage options like Amazon EBS, Provisioned IOPS, and Amazon Aurora, while DigitalOcean Managed Databases offer scalable block storage. Google Cloud SQL provides storage options with integration to Google Cloud Storage for backups and flexibility in storage configurations.

2. **Managed Services**: Amazon RDS provides a fully managed service with automated backups, software patching, monitoring, and scaling capabilities. DigitalOcean Managed Databases offer a simpler managed service focusing on the database operations and maintenance, without additional services. Google Cloud SQL also offers a fully managed service with automated backups, patches, and monitoring.

3. **Pricing Structure**: Amazon RDS offers a complex pricing structure based on instance types, storage, and additional features, which can sometimes be challenging to estimate. DigitalOcean Managed Databases provide a simpler pricing model based on flat rates with transparent pricing. Google Cloud SQL also offers a transparent pricing model with pay-as-you-go options.

4. **Database Engine Support**: Amazon RDS supports a wide range of database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server, along with Amazon Aurora. DigitalOcean Managed Databases offer support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis databases. Google Cloud SQL supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases with built-in replication and failover capabilities.

5. **Integration with Cloud Services**: Amazon RDS integrates seamlessly with other AWS services like Amazon S3, Lambda, and Redshift for data analysis and processing. DigitalOcean Managed Databases offer integration with DigitalOcean Spaces for storing backups and media files. Google Cloud SQL integrates well with other Google Cloud services for a comprehensive cloud ecosystem.

In Summary, Amazon RDS, DigitalOcean Managed Databases, and Google Cloud SQL differ in aspects like storage options, managed services, pricing structure, database engine support, and integration with cloud services.
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    What is Amazon RDS?

    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 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.

    What is 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.

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      Apache Aurora
      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.
      MySQL
      The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
      Oracle
      Oracle Database is an RDBMS. An RDBMS that implements object-oriented features such as user-defined types, inheritance, and polymorphism is called an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). Oracle Database has extended the relational model to an object-relational model, making it possible to store complex business models in a relational database.
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