The Cloud and Database Benchmarking Blog

The popular database ranking consists of performance and cost metrics for the most important databases and selected DBaaS products. We have compared the current cloud and DBaaS prices with the prices for 2022 and are quite surprised at the different trends.

In November 2023 the founders of benchANT released an article in iX, a renowned German IT Journal. This is a English summary of the German article. The article includes excerpts from benchANT’s DBaaS study and other recently released articles. This article re-iterates on the DBaaS market and types of providers, discusses when using DBaaS may pay off compared to running self-management DBMS, and finally, illustrates by an example how benchmarking can help with selecting the r

Last week we analyzed the PostgreSQL DBaaS products of the three hyperscalers AWS, MS Azure and Google Cloud Platform [to spot deviations and understand their differences](/blog/postgresql-dbaas-performance-costs). As the insights are more than interesting and useful, we proceed with this analysis for the MySQL DBaaS products of the same providers. Check out the results of this week's DBaaS performance/cost analysis of the MySQL DBaaS products.