MariaDB MaxScale vs. NitroAccelerator

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MariaDB MaxScale
Score 7.5 out of 10
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NitroAccelerator
Score 8.3 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
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—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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Cisco Routers
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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9.1
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
MariaDB MaxScaleNitroAccelerator
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.
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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.
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Pros
MariaDB
  • Open source proxy server
  • Great performance
  • Offers load balancing
  • Modular architecture
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Cons
MariaDB
  • Improve balancing based on SQL queries
  • Improve swap memory consumption
  • It has a slight delay
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Nitrosphere
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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.
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Nitrosphere
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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.
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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.
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Nitrosphere
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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
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Nitrosphere
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