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3 self-hosted Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) alternatives

Managed cloud service for provisioning, operating, and scaling relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Amazon Aurora). Provides automated backups, patching, replication, high availability, monitoring, and maintenance features.

Alternatives to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

PostgreSQL is an advanced open source object-relational database with strong SQL compliance, ACID transactions, extensibility, and robust indexing and replication options.

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22k stars5.9k forkslast commit Actively maintained

MySQL is an open source relational database for SQL-based transactional and analytical workloads, supporting replication, high availability, and clustering options.

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12.4k stars4.3k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted database backup manager with scheduling, S3-compatible storage, multi-database support, diff viewer and restore capabilities.

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472 stars24 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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