MariaDB MaxScale vs. NitroAccelerator

MariaDB MaxScale

NitroAccelerator

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
MariaDB MaxScale	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	N/A	N/A
NitroAccelerator	Score 8.2 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	NitroAccelerator installs as a device driver to endpoints to optimize TCP-based connections. The solution is software-based and does not rely on third party proxies, distributed caching, lateral data-movement, or hardware appliances. The vendor states that NitroAccelerator is EPL Certified and approved to run on DoD networks with no known vulnerabilities or direct-competing vendors and is currently accelerating and securing enterprise-level connections all over the world.	N/A

Pricing

MariaDB MaxScale

NitroAccelerator

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
MariaDB MaxScale	NitroAccelerator
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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First year Maintenance & Support (M&S) are included in the license price. For the second year on, annual M&S will be charged at 20% of the original license price.

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Community Pulse
	MariaDB MaxScale	NitroAccelerator

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User Ratings
	MariaDB MaxScale	NitroAccelerator
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	MariaDB MaxScale	NitroAccelerator
Likelihood to Recommend	MariaDB If you have a cluster of nodes with MariaDB MaxScale and you want all the nodes of the cluster to have a similar load and not to be be penalized for queries or writes to the database, you can mount the MaxScale product in front of the MariaDB cluster. MaxScale will balance the requests based on what is being sent to each node to have an equitable load and will cache the queries that it sends to each one. This optimizes the response time to database queries and spreads the load out among all nodes in a similar way. Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere If you have an analytics-supporting SQL Server instance on a VM or bare metal, this is for you. Any large queries will get a massive speed-up. If you're using a DBaaS, then you would need to set up a proxy VM to see the benefits. If you have a transactional-only database, you won't likely see any benefits. Steven Hibble SVP Data Operations Read full review
Pros	MariaDB Open source proxy server Great performance Offers load balancing Modular architecture Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
Cons	MariaDB Improve balancing based on SQL queries Improve swap memory consumption It has a slight delay Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
Usability	MariaDB MariaDB MaxScale is a powerful tool and easy to use. It has helped us a lot to improve the performance of our database queries. It implements a security layer that acts as a firewall for the databases, masks the data, or limits the results of the queries. It also integrates easily with Kafka. Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
Support Rating	MariaDB We have launched several inquiries to MariaDB MaxScale support, and they have always responded very quickly. They also want to hold frequent meetings with the client to get their opinion understand how they can help. I see a very human support that is concerned about the customer. Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	MariaDB ProxySLQ allows many simultaneous connections and allows the cache of queries in memory but it does not have high availability or scalability natively, only through external tools. HAProxy is not able to perform load balancing in an optimal way. Instead, MariaDB MaxScale allows high availability, scalability, and data replication to external systems such as Kafka. In addition, MaxScale has a monitor that allows you to see the status of the set of databases. Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	MariaDB Reduce the number of database nodes Improve the performance of the applications that use the databases A new layer is added in the service architecture Incentivized José Javier Dominguez Reina Jefe de Proyecto Read full review	Nitrosphere No answers on this topic
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