Self-managed databases give you control, but your team absorbs every failure. A misconfigured high-availability setup, an unmonitored disk, or a missed security patch can cascade into hours of downtime and costly remediation. ApsaraDB for MyBase is a dedicated cluster service built for organizations that need full OS-level and database-level control without the operational overhead of self-managed infrastructure.
Feature comparison
The following table compares ApsaraDB for MyBase with self-managed databases across key operational dimensions.
| Feature | ApsaraDB for MyBase | Self-managed database |
|---|---|---|
| High availability | Performs automatic failover and recovery to maintain high availability. | Requires purchasing additional software or hardware to build a high-availability architecture. |
| Resource overcommitment | Supports overcommitment of CPU, memory, and disk resources to reduce costs. | Resource overcommitment is not supported. |
| Resource scheduling | Provides the even allocation policy to distribute workloads during promotional events and the compact allocation policy to maximize resource utilization for daily business. Costs can be reduced by up to 60%. | Requires separate configuration or purchase of Auto Scaling to meet business requirements. |
| Database permission management | Grants full operating system (OS) and database management permissions, allowing you to customize database management logic. Supports host access and management through bastion hosts, which provide operation audit, access control, and security authentication. | Grants full permissions on the databases. |
| Hybrid deployment | Deploy different applications and databases within a single dedicated cluster to meet business architecture requirements and improve database access efficiency. Deploy multiple database types based on their load characteristics to make services more cost-effective. | Allows deploying different applications and databases together, but requires separate configuration or purchase of Server Load Balancer (SLB) for balanced workload distribution. |
| High security | Provides access link encryption, disk data encryption based on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), data audit, and operation audit. Supports deploying enterprise-specific audit tools for data security. | Requires separate configuration of link encryption to protect data. SQL logs must be stored separately. |
| Operations and maintenance (O&M) capability | Provides comprehensive O&M solutions including backup and restoration, monitoring and alerting, and intelligent O&M diagnostics. Supports deploying additional O&M tools such as proprietary monitoring components. Grants full database management permissions and controllable OS permissions to database administrators. | Requires database administrators to install, deploy, and configure high-availability, backup, and monitoring components. Senior database administrators are needed for ongoing O&M. |
| Elasticity | Create instances of the same specifications, adjust the resource allocation ratio, and select instance families to match business requirements. Configure different specifications for primary instances, secondary instances, and shards in distributed databases. | Resource scaling requires significant manual effort. |
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