With such a wide range of options available for running MySQL based servers in Amazon cloud environments, how do you choose? There’s no doubt it’s a challenge. In this two-part series of blog posts, we’ll try to draw a fair and informative comparison based on well-established benchmark scenarios – at scale.
In part one we will discuss the performance of the current Amazon RDS services – Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for MySQL – and compare it with the performance of Percona Server with InnoDB and RocksDB engines. And in part two we will go over costs and efficiencies to look for. All this information is necessarily number-heavy, but hopefully, you’ll enjoy the experiments!
Evaluation scenario The benchmark scripts
For these evaluations, we use the …
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