This is a beta service and is not yet ready for use in data intensive applications.

About

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 databases. All subsequent SQL commands can be issued from any host, client, and/or script of your choosing.

Backups

We strongly recommend you keep backups of your SQL schema and data. As you work with your SQL data, it is automatically saved on an additional secondary SQL server for restoration in the event of a server failure. 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.

Always use this interface to create and drop databases. Although you can drop any of your databases outside this interface, doing so will not relinquish your rights to that database and will therefore still count against your quota.

Disclaimer

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your MySQL account at any time and for any or no reason.

We perform no query logging, schema or data backups, or any other backups otherwise generally available. You are solely responsible for performing backups of your data.

We maintain general usage statistics of this service by the MIT community at large.