Amazon develops MySQL-compatible database engine Aurora

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Amazon on its AWS cloud platform, a relational database engine available that MySQL databases better performance and easier scales. The engine, Aurora called, is not open source, but compatible with MySQL 5.6.

According to Amazon can Aurora up to five times better performance than standard MySQL deployments on AWS cloud platform, while the database engine is completely compatible with Oracles open-source database software. The prestatiewinsten are due to virtualized storage systems based on solid-state storage, along with software optimizations in the engine.

Amazon promises that Aurora is also very reliable databasediensten results thanks to fault tolerance-mechanisms and ‘self-healing’ storage systems. It could be that databases remain available if there diskfouten arise. Also claims Amazon that a database crash is automatically detected and that Aurora within sixty seconds it is available again without a recovery procedure needs to be executed, or the database cache is re-built. Furthermore, it can automatically to a back-up server can be switched, if a whole Aurora-instance crash. Databasedata is within three AWS regions to six times replicated.

An AWS user can Aurora through its AWS management console to activate and manage. According to Amazon need a system administrator, but only a few tasks yourself. So would a database of a few gigabytes become terabytes, without that the database is temporarily off the air is to be obtained to make more storage space available.

Aurora is not open source and is currently only for AWS users available in a preview version, in addition to the existing platforms, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. As with other AWS cloud services pay customers on the basis of the actual use of the database servers.

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