HAProxy Community Edition vs. ScaleArc

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HAProxy Community Edition
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
HAProxy Community Edition is a free, open source reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is presented as suited for very high traffic web sites.
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ScaleArc
Score 6.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
ScaleArc for MySQL (other versions available for SQL Server and Oracle), developed by DevFactory solution and acquired by Ignite Technologies in January 2018, is database load balancing software that promises to increase uptime, performance, and scale out for applications leveraging the MySQL database. The software drops in between applications and databases and directs queries into the database on behalf of the app - it looks to the app as if it were the database, and it looks to the…N/A
Pricing
HAProxy Community EditionScaleArc
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HAProxy Community EditionScaleArc
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
HAProxy Community EditionScaleArc
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(7 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(2 ratings)
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Support Rating
9.7
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User Testimonials
HAProxy Community EditionScaleArc
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
It prevents a single server failure from being a downtime event by adding redundancy to every layer of your architecture. A load balancer facilitates redundancy for the backend layer (web/app servers), but for a true high availability setup, you need to have redundant load balancers as well. So it is well suited for all production related servers and less suited for individual servers that do not require redundancy.
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Ignite Technologies
It is best suited for SaaS applications where uptime and availability are a priority to the business
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Pros
Open Source
  • Low-Cost Load Balancer
  • Intelligent Request Routing based on URL and/or URI
  • Extremely flexible load balancing and healthchecks, can do almost anything including HTTP, HTTPS, PostgreSQL, etc.
  • SSL Termination
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Ignite Technologies
  • ScaleArc does provide high availability and during failover it takes care of the master slave lag as well seamless switch between master and slave.
  • ScaleArc also helps to reduce application traffic on MySQL database server by filtering frequently used commands like AUTOCOMMIT.
  • ScaleArc provides a single interface for all application and database user management. This helps in strengthening security aspects of user management.
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Cons
Open Source
  • A few, rare times each year, HAProxy CPU utilization spikes to 100% and server has to be rebooted - this may be related to HAProxy OR it could be an external factor causing this.
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Ignite Technologies
  • The fact that the analytics is included in the product; it really is hard to recommend this. However; I would recommend the analytics be a little more easier to use and more intuitive for drilling down to the source of the problem.
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Usability
Open Source
It is very easy to use. I was able to find a lot of documents for it on the internet. Very good community support. There are lots of examples available to try. We mostly use a command-line user interface to interact with it. The CLI is also super easy to use and very easy to interact with
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Ignite Technologies
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Support Rating
Open Source
We haven't used customer support. We mostly used the community version. We build a multi-node HAProxy cluster with HA to the proxy itself using opensource plugins available. With the support available on the internet and the documents available we don't need to use much customer support.
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Ignite Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
Open Source
We chose HA Proxy because it is cheaper than a hardware balancer, it is an open-source solution with a large community behind it and with constant updates. It also allows custom scripts according to needs.HA Proxy is a solution used in many internet sites like GitHub, Reddit, Twitter, and Tuenti.
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Ignite Technologies
Outside of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introducing the ability to route reads across the entire availability group; there is no other solution on the market that even comes close, and that's even if they exist.
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • Significantly lower investment vs competitors. In the case of F5s we have Virtual Editions so we're paying for the hardware to run it on top of the several thousand dollar licenses that are required for each pair and we currently have a pair of F5s per client so there's a huge potential for cost savings there.
  • Requires our network engineers to learn a new skill or our Systems engineers to take on the responsibility of managing the load balancers. It's not a huge difference either way, but it does impact the way we have done business in the past.
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Ignite Technologies
  • Provided a single management interface for a complete MySQL farm in our company. It has helped particularly in managing high availability of MySQL databases thus overall improving the business website reliability. This in turn further enhances the confidence of our customers.
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ScreenShots

ScaleArc Screenshots

Screenshot of Rich analytics simplify database troubleshooting, provide a cluster-wide view of stats, and highlight queries that are good candidates for caching.Screenshot of ScaleArc provides rich details about queries, aggregated to make patterns obvious but available for drill down as well.Screenshot of The ScaleArc software supports automatic or manual failover, enabling zero downtime maintenance and avoiding app errors during database failover.