Azure Database for MySQL vs. Azure Database for PostgreSQL vs. MySQL Workbench vs. PostgreSQL Data Access Components 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 Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more. MySQL Workbench is available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. MySQL Workbench enables a DBA, developer, or data architect to visually design, model, generate, and manage databases. It includes everything a data modeler needs for creating complex ER models, forward and reverse engineering, and also delivers key features for performing difficult change management and documentation tasks that normally require much time and effort. MySQL Workbench delivers visual tools for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries. The SQL Editor provides color syntax highlighting, auto-complete, reuse of SQL snippets, and execution history of SQL. The Database Connections Panel enables developers to easily manage standard database connections.