Differences between MySQL standard and MySQL Enterprise Servers


MySQL Enterprise Edition

MySQL Enterprise Edition comes with advanced features, management tools, and technical support that helps users achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, reliability, and uptime. It reduces the risk, complication, and cost associated with development, deployment, and management of business-critical MySQL applications.

MySQL Database Service is a fully managed database service that helps deploy cloud-native applications using the MySQL, which is considered as the world’s most popular open source database. It is completely developed, managed and supported by the MySQL Team.

MySQL Standard Edition

MySQL standard edition ensures that user delivers high-performance and provides scalability on OLTP applications (Online Transaction Processing). It is easy to use, since it is reliable and gives industrial strength performance.

The standard edition comes with InnoDB, which is the engine used while working with databases. This makes it a fully integrated software, which is transaction safe, and ACID compliant database. ACID refers to Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability.

Let us understand the difference between MySQL Standard and Enterprise servers:

MySQL Standard Server
MySQL Enterprise Server
It doesn’t have a Document Store.
It has Document Store and allows users to work with SQL relational tables and JSON collection (schema-less).
It is an ACID compliant database (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
The Router is a lightweight middleware. It provides transparent routing ability between the application and backend servers.
It comes with MySQL replication that allows user to deliver high performance and scalability.
This Router provides high availability and scalability, since the database traffic is routed effectively.
It doesn’t have Router facility.
This Router can be extended for customization.
It helps minimize the TCO of the database.
Applicable here
Partitioning is not provided.
Partitioning helps distribute parts of separate tables from a file system. This is done based on rules that can be set by user.
It has been certified with Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, and Oracle Solaris only.
It has been certified with Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, and Oracle Solaris, Oracle Goldengate, Oracle enterprise manager, Oracle data integrator, Fusion middleware, Secure backup and open stack.
The annual subscription costs USD 2000.
The annual subscription costs USD 5000.
Not provided here
It comes with Enterprise manager that provides real-time monitoring. It gives better performance, availability and configuration information on MySQL database.

Updated on: 02-Mar-2021

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