This topic describes RDS Enterprise Edition.
RDS Enterprise Edition supports the following database engine versions and instance families:
- Database engine versions: MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0
- Instance families: dedicated instance family, including the dedicated host instance types
Limits
For performance purposes, you must deploy the three RDS instances of your database system in the same region.
Benefits
- High reliability
- RDS Enterprise Edition provides enterprise-grade reliability with a recovery point objective (RPO) of 0.
- The three RDS instances of your database system can be deployed in three different data centers of the same city to support cross-zone disaster recovery.
- Comprehensive functionality
RDS Enterprise Edition supports all the features that are provided by ApsaraDB RDS. These features include automatic scaling, backup and restoration, performance optimization, read/write splitting, and SQL Explorer. The SQL Explorer feature is used to log all the SQL statements that are executed within up to five years. Based on the SQL logs, you can trace database access behavior. This ensures the security of important data.
- Strong consistency and high availability
The following improvements are made to the database engines of ApsaraDB RDS to increase data consistency and service availability:
- Raft, a distributed consensus algorithm, is used to ensure the reliability and atomicity of switchovers among the RDS instances in your database system.
- Two data replicas and three log replicas are supported. Transaction logs are synchronized from the primary RDS instance to the secondary RDS instance and logger RDS instance. A transaction is committed only after the related logs are written to at least two of the three RDS instances in your database system.
- If you use MySQL 5.7 or MySQL 8.0, the Raft algorithm is used to control the commitment, rollback, and crash recovery of transactions. This ensures data consistency in your database system.
- The secondary RDS instance and the logger RDS instance replay only the transaction logs that have been written into a majority of the three RDS instances in your database system. In addition, parallel replication algorithms at various levels are used to increase replay efficiency. Therefore, you can reduce the recovery time objective (RTO) and ensure service availability. The supported levels are the database, table, logical clock, and WriteSet levels.
Instance types
The following table describes the instance types that are supported by RDS Enterprise Edition.
ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL instances on RDS Enterprise Edition (with local SSDs)
| RDS edition | Instance family | Instance type | Number of cores and memory capacity | Maximum number of concurrent connections | Storage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum IOPS | Storage capacity | |||||
| Enterprise Edition | General-purpose instance family | MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n2.small.25 | 1 core, 2 GB | 600 | 1,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB |
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n2.medium.25 | 2 cores, 4 GB | 1,200 | 2,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n4.medium.25 | 2 cores, 8 GB | 2,000 | 4,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n2.large.25 | 4 cores, 8 GB | 2,000 | 5,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n4.large.25 | 4 cores, 16 GB | 4,000 | 7,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n2.xlarge.25 | 8 cores, 16 GB | 4,000 | 8,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n4.xlarge.25 | 8 cores, 32 GB | 8,000 | 12,000 | 5 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n4.2xlarge.25 | 16 cores, 64 GB | 16,000 | 14,000 | 5 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.n8.2xlarge.25 | 16 cores, 128 GB | 32,000 | 16,000 | 5 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| Dedicated instance family (with a large number of cores) | MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x4.large.25 | 4 cores, 16 GB | 2,500 | 4,500 | 50 GB to 2,000 GB | |
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x4.xlarge.25 | 8 cores, 32 GB | 5,000 | 9,000 | 500 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x4.2xlarge.25 | 16 cores, 64 GB | 10,000 | 18,000 | 500 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x4.4xlarge.25 | 32 cores, 128 GB | 20,000 | 36,000 | 1,000 GB to 6,000 GB | ||
| Dedicated instance family (with a large memory capacity) | MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x8.medium.25 | 2 cores, 16 GB | 2,500 | 4,500 | 50 GB to 2,000 GB | |
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x8.large.25 | 4 cores, 32 GB | 5,000 | 9,000 | 50 GB to 2,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x8.xlarge.25 | 8 cores, 64 GB | 10,000 | 18,000 | 500 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x8.2xlarge.25 | 16 cores, 128 GB | 20,000 | 36,000 | 500 GB to 3,000 GB | ||
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.x8.4xlarge.25 | 32 cores, 256 GB | 40,000 | 72,000 | 1,000 GB to 6,000 GB | ||
| Dedicated host instance family | MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.st.8xlarge.25 | 60 cores, 470 GB | 100,000 | 120,000 | 3,000 GB, 4,000 GB, 5,000 GB, or 6,000 GB | |
| MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8.0: mysql.st.12xlarge.25 | 90 cores, 720 GB | 150,000 | 140,000 | 1,000 GB to 6,000 GB | ||
- mysql.x8.medium.25
- mysql.x4.large.25
- mysql.x8.large.25
Note: If your RDS instance uses one of the preceding instance types and the used storage exceeds 2,000 GB, you cannot change the billing method from pay-as-you-go to subscription. You can change the billing method only when the used storage is less than 2,000 GB.
FAQ
Is RDS Enterprise Edition supported for read-only RDS instances?
No, RDS Enterprise Edition is not supported for read-only RDS instances. You can create a read-only RDS instance for a primary RDS instance that runs RDS Enterprise Edition. However, the created read-only RDS instance is based on the high-availability architecture.