This is a beta service and is not yet ready for use in data intensive applications.
This service provides MySQL databases to Athena account holders. You must choose a MySQL password (independent of your Athena account) when you Signup and then use this interface to create and drop your MySQL databases. All subsequent SQL commands can be issued from any host, client, and/or script of your choosing.
As you work with your SQL data, it is automatically saved on an additional secondary SQL server for restoration in the event of a single server failure. We strongly recommend you keep your own backups for your own independent use in all other cases. Although we continually put forth our best efforts, we can make no guarantees on the reliability of the service and access to the data.
By default, new users can create up to 5 databases, consuming a total of 25 megabytes of SQL data. The system will periodically check your database sizes and suspend creation of new data (INSERT statements) if your total usage exceeds your allotted quota.
This service is not designed to store gratuitous amounts of information in the BLOB or BINARY formats. Extra quota space will not be allotted to users for this type of data. Users should instead store these types of data in AFS and use SQL tables only to catalogue it.
We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your MySQL account at any time and for any or no reason.
We maintain general usage statistics of this service by the MIT community at large.