Replace Your In-House MySQL HA Solution with Tungsten Clustering & Get The First 6 Months of Your Subscription For Free
Tungsten Cluster Competitive Comparison:
In-House DIY MySQL HA Solutions
Find out why Tungsten Cluster is a better and more cost-effective overall MySQL HA /DR /Geo-Scale solution compared to solutions that would have been developed in-house.
While there are organisations that have the internal resources to build and maintain their own high availability solutions for MySQL, with tools such as Orchestrator and a proxy like ProxySQL for example, commercially-supported enterprise software is less risky and in fact less costly.
- The labor time spent building and maintaining a DIY solution costs more than a supported solution that just works.
- There is documentation, training, support, so your mission-critical process is never dependent upon an irreplaceable individual.
Contact us and become a customer: we will provide the Tungsten Cluster software solution to you free for the first six months, then competitively-priced going forwards.
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
Why Choose Tungsten Cluster Over a DIY Solution?
Features & Benefits
Tungsten Cluster
DIY (such as with Orchestrator & a proxy / ProxySQL)
Continuous Operations
4.67
3.00
Zero Downtime Maintenance
Both database, operating system and hardware changes & upgrades
Needs manual reconfiguration
High Availability
Automatic failover of primary
Needs to be developed
DR with Active/Passive Cluster
Automated site level switch with one failover command
Needs to be developed
DR with Active/Active Cluster
Only requires repointing the apps
Needs to be developed
DR Failback
Single command, fast
Needs to be developed
Backup & Data Recovery
Flexible backups using existing external tools
Using existing tools
Scalability/Read replicas
4.40
3.40
Scalability/Read replicas
Supported
Needs to be developed
Scalability/Physical location
Deploy anywhere, on-prem and in the cloud (also hybrid- and multi-cloud)
Choice of where to deploy
Scalability/Instance size
Choose the instance size, minimal requirements
Needs to be developed
DB Node Auto-Scale
No auto-scale. Requires manual steps
Needs to be developed
DB Cluster Scaling
Ideal for the SaaS apps (Pod Architecture)
Needs to be developed
Geographic Scaling
5.00
2.00
Scalability/Read replicas
Across regions, availability zones, and clouds
Needs to be developed, but also requires considerable testing
Active/Active Geo-Clusters
Multi-site active/active supported and widely deployed
Needs to be developed, but also requires considerable testing
Active/Passive Geo-Clusters
Supported and widely deployed in cross-regions and cross-clouds, also on-premises
Needs to be developed, but also requires considerable testing
Performance
4.75
2.75
Smart-Scale
Tungsten Proxy with automatic read/write split, no application changes
Very difficult, few tools available
Load Balancing
Highly configurable with automatic read/write splitting
Needs to be developed
Up to Date Read Replicas
Using asynchronous replication
Needs to be developed, requires specific tools
Robust Database Performance
Tune your favorite database, asynchronous replication adds almost no performance penalty
Depends on implementation and development
Transparency
5.00
3.67
No Application Changes
Works out of box without app changes
Depends on implementation and development
All MySQL Versions
Native MySQL: Community, MySQL Enterprise, MariaDB, Percona Server, all versions
Chose MySQL version, though it may not be possible to mix versions
Compatibility With All Database Engines
All MySQL engines
Depending on implementation
Security
4.33
2.67
Security/Encryption at rest
Can leverage existing cloud or filesystem encryption technologies
Can leverage existing cloud of filesystem encryption technologies
Security/Encryption in flight
Supported for all traffic
Needs to be developed
Compliance (PCI, HIPAA)
Can be used in security/privacy standards
Much more effort required to pass and show continuing compliance
Management and Monitoring
4.80
2.00
Deployment
Easy to deploy
Difficult, must be developed, orchestrated, tested
Cluster Management
Easy management via web-based GUI
Much more effort to develop tools, or combine existing tools
Monitoring - GUI
Much more effort to develop tools, or combine existing tools
Full monitoring, though enhanced monitoring is charged extra
Alerts / Notifications
Integration with notifications systems
Much more effort to develop tools, or combine existing tools
OS/DB Patching
Assistance with scripts, no downtime
Needs to be developed
Real-time Data (Analytics, Data Lake, Reporting)
5.00
2.00
Replication Into Analytics
Needs to be developed but few tools available for real-time replication
Needs to be developed but few tools available for real-time replication
Filtering
Complex filtering at schema and data level
Needs to be developed, but few tools handle complex filtering
Cluster Aware
Replication stream not interupted by loss of a single cluster node
Needs to be developed but few tools available for real-time replication
Support Services
Tungsten Cluster
DIY (such as with Orchestrator & a proxy / ProxySQL)
24/7 Support
5.00
0.67
24/7 Support
24/7 support with high, near 100% customer satisfaction
Each tool in use is individually supported, some only by forums
Fast Support Reponse Time
The fastest in the industry, averaging less than 3 minutes for Urgent support request.
Depends on tool
Support Team Experience
Each member has 20+ years experience on DBA and Site Reliability
Depends on tool
Intangibles
Tungsten Cluster
DIY (such as with Orchestrator & a proxy / ProxySQL)
MySQL Version Support
5.00
5.00
MySQL Community
Fully supported, all versions up to 8.0
Chose MySQL version, though it may not be possible to mix versions
MySQL Enterprise
Fully supported, all versions up to 8.0
Chose MySQL version, though it may not be possible to mix versions
MariaDB
Fully supported, all versions up to 10.5
Chose MySQL version, though it may not be possible to mix versions
Percona Server
Fully supported
Chose MySQL version, though it may not be possible to mix versions
Infrastructure and Platform
5.00
4.50
On-premises Deployment
Fully supported
Can be fully supported
Cloud Deployment
All cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure) are supported
Can be fully supported
Multi-Cloud
Fully supported
Can be supported with substantial effort
Hybrid-Cloud
Fully supported
Can be supported with substantial effort
Product Maturity
5.00
0.33
Complete
One solution for HA, DR & Geo-Scale
Entire system needs to be developed using various components
Integrated
Comes with Manager, Proxy & Replicator
Have to pick and choose each components, verify compatability
Fully Tested
Proven in business-critical customer environments
You have to test each scenario, retest when updating components
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
4.33
1.00
Low Subscription Cost, High Value
Instance size does not matter, non-linear pricing (additional clusters are at increasingly lower cost), no cost TrueUps
Initial cost may be low but requires time and dedication from staff
24/7 Support
Included
Each componment may be supported but not as a system
Few DBA Resource Needed
Large number of clusters can be managed with small number of DBAs
Requires knowledgable team and and time to design, implement, and test
Use Cases Supported
Tungsten Cluster
DIY (such as with Orchestrator & a proxy / ProxySQL)
MySQL Multi-Primary
Supported
Supported
Upgrade From the Following Solutions
Amazon Aurora
Google CloudSQL
MS Azure SQL
Galera / MariaDB Cluster / XtraDB Cluster
MySQL InnoDB Cluster
DIY (such as with ProxySQL and Orchestrator): you have an in-house solution? Talk to us about upgrade options!
MySQL Master HA (MHA)
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.