SkySQL

What is SkySQL?

SkySQL is a multi-cloud, serverless, AI-driven Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform. It offers flexible deployment options, including serverless and provisioned modes, to cater to different business needs. Whether you're developing new applications or managing production workloads, SkySQL provides the tools and features to ensure high performance, security, and availability.

Benefits

Serverless Mode

Adapt Instantly to Any Workload

SkySQL Serverless dynamically adjusts to workload demands, scaling from zero to peak capacity within milliseconds. This ensures that your applications always have the resources they need, without any manual intervention.

Smarter Cost Efficiency

With SkySQL Serverless, you only pay for what you use. There's no need to overprovision or guess at capacity. Billing automatically aligns with actual usage, making it ideal for flexible budgets and cost-conscious teams.

Forever Free Tier

Kick-start your development with SkySQL's Forever Free Tier. Perfect for dev/test environments, it gives you access to the power of serverless databases without spending a dime. Experiment, build, and iterate freely.

Provisioned Mode

Consistent Performance

SkySQL Provisioned Mode offers stability and predictable performance, ideal for production workloads that require always-on availability.

Fine-Tuned Control

Control resource allocation via the UI, APIs, or autonomous scheduling. This mode is perfect for workloads with predictable patterns, ensuring readiness and efficiency.

Multi-cloud, Multi-region

SkySQL runs on Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, offering deployment flexibility across major cloud providers. Cross-cloud replication ensures failover protection while maintaining low-latency performance by deploying replicas within the same region across different clouds.

Continuous Availability and Autonomous Self-healing Architecture

SkySQL's advanced intelligent proxy ensures instant failover, load balancing, read-write splitting, and transaction replays, delivering seamless performance and high availability. Unlike competitors, SkySQL uses load balancing to efficiently utilize standby resources, ensuring zero downtime.

Instant and Transparent Failover

SkySQL provides sub-second failover and redirect, ensuring no disruption to end users.

Load Balancing

Load balance queries to active read replicas, supporting both 'causal' and 'strong, global' consistency models.

Transaction Replays

Ensure seamless failover by automatically replaying pending transactions on the new server, maintaining consistency and minimizing disruption.

Comprehensive Backup Tools

SkySQL offers comprehensive backup tools to ensure high availability, even during cloud provider outages. Perform physical, logical, and incremental backups, take snapshots, back up to your own environment, and fully control your backup schedule—all tailored to your needs.

Flashback

Enables online point-in-time rollback to undo recent changes such as accidental deletes or updates.

Advanced Kubernetes Operator

Recovers failed nodes instantly by reattaching disks and can create new instances in different zones if needed.

Enterprise Security

SkySQL databases are secure by default, with end-to-end encryption and access restricted unless authorized.

Encryption

Data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, requires SSL/TLS client connections, and provides a certificate chain for verification.

AllowListing

Databases are not publicly accessible, and admins can allow the IP addresses or ranges of IP addresses for any clients requiring access.

Firewall

All access to customer databases goes through a network load balancer that prevents access from IPs that are not allowlisted.

Private Connections

SkySQL services can be configured for private connections using various methods.

Portal SSO

Customers can configure the SkySQL Portal to accept authentication with their SAML 2.0 IDP for SSO.

Use Cases

Cloud-Native and AI-Driven Applications

SkySQL's serverless mode is ideal for building cloud-native and AI-driven applications. Its dynamic scaling and cost-efficiency make it perfect for flexible budgets and cost-conscious teams.

Production Workloads

SkySQL's provisioned mode offers consistent performance and fine-tuned control, making it suitable for production workloads that require predictable, always-on performance.

Multi-Cloud Deployments

SkySQL's multi-cloud, multi-region capabilities make it ideal for businesses that need deployment flexibility across major cloud providers. Cross-cloud replication ensures failover protection while maintaining low-latency performance.

Pricing

SkySQL offers a Forever Free Tier for development and testing environments. For production workloads, pricing is based on actual usage, ensuring cost-efficiency and flexibility.

Vibes

SkySQL is praised for its seamless performance, high availability, and comprehensive security features. Users appreciate the flexibility of its serverless and provisioned modes, as well as its multi-cloud capabilities. The platform's advanced features, such as instant failover and transaction replays, ensure minimal disruption and high reliability.

Additional Information

SkySQL is the first true serverless database for MySQL, offering a range of features and benefits that cater to different business needs. Its advanced architecture and comprehensive tools ensure high performance, security, and availability, making it a reliable choice for businesses of all sizes.