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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HAProxy Community Edition

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHAProxy 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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    MariaDB MaxScale

    Score8 out of 10
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    HAProxy Community EditionMariaDB MaxScale
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    HAProxy Community EditionMariaDB MaxScale
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    HAProxy Community EditionMariaDB MaxScale
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
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    MariaDB
    Chose MariaDB MaxScale
    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 …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    HAProxy Community EditionMariaDB MaxScale
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HAProxy Community EditionMariaDB MaxScale
    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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    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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    Pros
    Open Source
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    MariaDB
    • Open source proxy server
    • Great performance
    • Offers load balancing
    • Modular architecture
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    Cons
    Open Source
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    MariaDB
    • Improve balancing based on SQL queries
    • Improve swap memory consumption
    • It has a slight delay
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    Usability
    Open Source
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    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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    Support Rating
    Open Source
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    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
    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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    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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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
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    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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