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Tungsten Cluster Competitive Comparison: Amazon Aurora
Find out why Tungsten Cluster is a better and more cost-effective overall MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale solution compared to Amazon Aurora.
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Tungsten Cluster In a Nutshell
The Tungsten Clustering family of products is the only complete, fully-integrated, fully-tested MySQL HA, DR and geo-clustering solution running on-premises and in the cloud combined with industry-best and fastest, 24/7 support for business-critical MySQL, MariaDB, & Percona Server applications.
Continuous Operations
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Global Scaling
Tungsten Clustering vs Amazon Aurora
Why Choose Tungsten Cluster over Amazon Aurora?
Features & Benefits
Tungsten Cluster
Amazon Aurora
Continuous Operations
4.67
3.00
Zero Downtime Maintenance
Both database, operating system and hardware changes & upgrades
Requires maintenance window and downtime
High Availability
Automatic failover of primary
30 seconds downtime with DNS change
DR with Active/Passive Cluster
Automated site level switch with one failover command
Only with Aurora Global Database. Takes “a few minutes.”
DR with Active/Active Cluster
Only requires repointing the apps
Cross-region active/active not supported
DR Failback
Single command, fast
Cross-region failback requires reprovision
Backup & Data Recovery
Flexible backups using existing external tools
Managed, proprietary
Scalability/Read replicas
4.40
4.00
Scalability/Read replicas
Supported
Supported
Scalability/Physical location
Deploy anywhere, on-prem and in the cloud (also hybrid- and multi-cloud)
AWS regions only
Scalability/Instance size
Choose the instance size, minimal requirements
Supported
DB Node Auto-Scale
No auto-scale. Requires manual steps
Auto-scale supported with "serverless," reduced functionality
DB Cluster Scaling
Ideal for the SaaS apps (Pod Architecture)
Ideal for DevOps
Geographic Scaling
5.00
3.33
Scalability/Read replicas
Across regions, availability zones, and clouds
But only for read replicas and in AWS regions
Active/Active Geo-Clusters
Multi-site active/active supported and widely deployed
Local only
Active/Passive Geo-Clusters
Supported and widely deployed in cross-regions and cross-clouds, also on-premises
Supported (in AWS only)
Performance
4.75
3.50
Smart-Scale
Tungsten Proxy with automatic read/write split, no application changes
Not natively, requires 3rd party proxy
Load Balancing
Highly configurable with automatic read/write splitting
High performance but read/write splitting requires app awareness
Up to Date Read Replicas
Using asynchronous replication
Using distributed file system
Robust Database Performance
Tune your favorite database, asynchronous replication adds almost no performance penalty
Tweaks to standard MySQL for performance
Transparency
5.00
3.33
No Application Changes
Works out of box without app changes
Apps with advanced MySQL 8.0 and MariaDB features may not work
All MySQL Versions
Native MySQL: Community, MySQL Enterprise, MariaDB, Percona Server, all versions
"Compatible MySQL" based on MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, no MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.x support
Compatibility With All Database Engines
All MySQL engines
InnoDB only
Security
4.33
5.00
Security/Encryption at rest
Can leverage existing cloud or filesystem encryption technologies
Built in
Security/Encryption in flight
Supported for all traffic
Supported for all traffic
Compliance (PCI, HIPAA)
Can be used in security/privacy standards
Can be used in security/privacy standards
Management and Monitoring
4.80
4.20
Deployment
Easy to deploy
Easy to deploy
Cluster Management
Easy management via web-based GUI
UI, region specific - can only view a single region at a time
Monitoring - GUI
Full GUI based cluster monitoring. Performance monitoring with Prometheus
Full monitoring, though enhanced monitoring is charged extra
Alerts / Notifications
Integration with notifications systems
Alerting via AWS api, must be configured
OS/DB Patching
Assistance with scripts, no downtime
Automatic, however will cause interruption
Real-time Data (Analytics, Data Lake, Reporting)
5.00
1.00
Replication Into Analytics
Real-time to the data analytics engines (AWS Redshift, Hadoop, Vertica, many others)
AWS Redshift only, using external tools
Filtering
Complex filtering at schema and data level
Only basic MySQL replication
Cluster Aware
Replication stream not interupted by loss of a single cluster node
External tools need to be made aware
Support Services
Tungsten Cluster
Amazon Aurora
24/7 Support
5.00
2.00
24/7 Support
24/7 support with high, near 100% customer satisfaction
Basic support > 12 hours, business-critical Enterprise support extremely expensive
Fast Support Reponse Time
The fastest in the industry, averaging less than 3 minutes for Urgent support request.
Unless paying very high Enterprise support fee
Support Team Experience
Each member has 20+ years experience on DBA and Site Reliability
Unknown who will be providing support, often lower-level call center member with limited or no DBA experience
Intangibles
Tungsten Cluster
Amazon Aurora
MySQL Version Support
5.00
2.00
MySQL Community
Fully supported, all versions up to 8.0
'MySQL Compatible', 5.6 and 5.7 features only
MySQL Enterprise
Fully supported, all versions up to 8.0
Not supported
MariaDB
Fully supported, all versions up to 10.5
Not supported
Percona Server
Fully supported
'MySQL Compatible', 5.6 and 5.7 features only
Infrastructure and Platform
5.00
0.75
On-premises Deployment
Fully supported
Not supported
Cloud Deployment
All cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure) are supported
AWS only
Multi-Cloud
Fully supported
Not supported
Hybrid-Cloud
Fully supported
Not supported
Product Maturity
5.00
3.67
Complete
One solution for HA, DR & Geo-Scale
Mainly for HA, DR only with Aurora Global, no Geo-Scale
Integrated
Comes with Manager, Proxy & Replicator
RDS Proxy is rudimentary and costs extra
Fully Tested
Proven in business-critical customer environments
Widely deployed, testing methodology unknown
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
4.33
3.33
Low Subscription Cost, High Value
Instance size does not matter, non-linear pricing (additional clusters are at increasingly lower cost), no cost TrueUps
Instance size based pricing, Linear pricing
24/7 Support
Included
Enterprise-level support available at a very high cost
Few DBA Resource Needed
Large number of clusters can be managed with small number of DBAs
Although, the 'managed' DBaaS still needs DBAs
Use Cases Supported
Tungsten Cluster
Amazon Aurora
MySQL Multi-Primary
Supported
Not Supported
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MySQL HA/DR/Geo-Scale - High Noon #1: AWS Aurora
Program Details
Runs through December 31st 2020
Upgrade options available for the solutions listed above
Become a customer and get 6 months of our software and 24/7 support free (in combination with one of our subscriptions)
Existing Continuent customers are not eligible for this particular program
Experience Our Industry-Best Continuent MySQL Support
Highly qualified 24/7 MySQL support
Our support engineers have 15 or more years of MySQL DBA and Site Reliability experience
24/7 support comes with 1-hour SLA, with response times for urgent requests averaging less than 3 minutes
MySQL uptime measured in months or years
Why Continuent?
Our customers are leading SaaS, e-commerce, financial services, gaming and telco companies who rely on MySQL and Continuent to cost-effectively safeguard billions of dollars annual revenue.