Polardb and RDS Comparison

Polardb is the core product of Alibaba's cloud database team. When communicating with the customer database team, customers often do not know how to s...

By Jansen, Solution Architect

Background：

Polardb is the core product of Alibaba's cloud database team. When communicating with the customer database team, customers often do not know how to select Polardb or RDS based on business scenario and also ask what is the difference between the two databases. Therefore, the blog show the differences between the two databases, which are summarized in different dimensions to facilitate customers to make judgments and reference.

Detailed Comparison

The following table show the detailed comparsion between polardb and rds for mysql engine on different dimension

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Summary

Based on the above detailed comparison, polarDB-MySQL has obvious advantages in the following scenarios:
Big storage requirement, heavily read pressure on read-only nodes, urgent scaling, analytics requirement on BI report output or ClickHouse scenarios, multiple writes (Saas level multi-tenant), high reliability (RPO=0), flashbacks ( second-level recovery) and GDN (remote disaster recovery)

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