Azure Database for MySQL vs. GaussDB vs. MySQL Migration Toolkit vs. SimpleRestore Comparison Chart

Focus on application development with Azure Database for MySQL, which is cost-effective and easy to set up, operate, and scale. Enjoy advanced security, high availability, and a service-level agreement (SLA) of up to 99.99 percent. Fully managed MySQL, compatible with the latest community editions, provides maximum flexibility for database operations. Intelligent performance recommendations provide custom analysis and suggestions for MySQL database optimization. Simplified development experience and tight interoperability with Azure App Service and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Enterprise-grade security and compliance, and enhanced security capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Identity. Easily build or migrate your workloads to Azure Database for MySQL. Set up, manage, and automate the maintenance of your MySQL database server, including routine updates, backups, and security. Build with the latest MySQL tools, drivers, and programming languages.

MySQL Migration Toolkit is a software pack to convert any data source to MySQL and vice versa. The product has high performance because it does not use ODBC or any other middleware software. Command line support allows to script, automation and scheduling the conversion process. MySQL Migration Toolkit allows users to do the indirect conversion and get more control over the process. Following this way, the program converts data into a local MySQL dump file instead of moving it to MySQL server directly. This dump file contains MySQL statements to create all tables and to fill them with the data. Click here to learn how to import dump file into MySQL database. Once you stored conversion settings into your profile you can run the program in Quick Launch mode. Just launch Windows Explorer and double-click on the profile description file with left mouse button. It will launch the appropriate conversion process loading necessary settings from the specified profile.