Azure Database for MySQL vs. GaussDB vs. ThinkSQL vs. dbForge Data Compare for MySQL 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.

ThinkSQL is a powerful, cross-platform relational database management system designed for modern operating systems and hardware. It aims to comply fully with the ISO SQL standard to provide an open and flexible SQL server for your applications. Compliance with the SQL standard means it supports transactions, sub-selects, views, set operators (union, except, intersect), access privileges and comprehensive referential constraints to ensure the integrity of your data. ThinkSQL uses a multi-versioning engine to provide consistent views of data and concurrent access to rows without locking. The server also has stored procedures and functions (using the standard syntax), and has support for large multimedia objects. It's easy to install, runs on Windows ® and Linux ®, and has native ODBC, JDBC™, dbExpress™ and Python drivers so your applications can connect directly from any platform.