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Amazon RDS VS Galera Cluster

Compare Amazon RDS VS Galera Cluster and see what are their differences

Amazon RDS logo Amazon RDS

Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership.

Galera Cluster logo Galera Cluster

Galera Cluster for MySQL is a Multimaster Cluster based on synchronous replication.
  • Amazon RDS Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-18
  • Galera Cluster Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-04-19

Amazon RDS videos

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

More videos:

  • Review - Getting Started with Amazon RDS - Relational Database Service on AWS

Galera Cluster videos

Choosing between MySQL Galera, MariaDB Galera Cluster and Percona XtraDB Cluster

More videos:

  • Review - High Availability and Scalability with Galera Cluster for MySQL
  • Review - Galera Cluster DDLs and Schema Upgrades Galera Cluster Best Practises

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Amazon RDS and Galera Cluster)
Databases
91 91%
9% 9
NoSQL Databases
88 88%
12% 12
Relational Databases
85 85%
15% 15
Cloud Computing
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Amazon RDS seems to be a lot more popular than Galera Cluster. While we know about 68 links to Amazon RDS, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Galera Cluster. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Amazon RDS mentions (68)

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Galera Cluster mentions (2)

  • Centralize storage for docker. What protocol to use?
    You can do basic master/replica with mysql or mariadb too. Or even multimaster replication with Galera - not the easiest thing to properly configure however. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Index bloat reduced in PostgreSQL v14
    Especially since Galera entered the picture: * https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=galera * https://galeracluster.com/ There's BDR, but it's a commercial product from 2ndQuadrant/EDB: * https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/resources/postgres-bdr-2ndquadrant/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Amazon RDS and Galera Cluster, you can also consider the following products

PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.

MariaDB - An enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL

Google Cloud Spanner - Google Cloud Spanner is a horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service.

MySQL - The world's most popular open source database

ElephantSQL - PostgreSQL open-source database, hosted in the cloud.

MongoDB - MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance NoSQL database.