Xeround vs ClearDB hosted MySQL pros and cons?

Question

We are currently on RDS for hosted MySQL but are considering moving to one of the fault tolerant MySQL addons for heroku. The two main ones seem to be xeround and ClearDB, but I'm having a hard time determining the differences between them. We're mainly interested in fault tolerance, consistent and fast performance and UTF8 charset support. Any experiences with either welcome. There doesn't seem to be much discussion of either out there.

Answer 1

I struggled with Xeround. We had an app built for none heroku environment that we migrated to Heroku. We tried Xeround but there was some problems with some of our queries for some reason when run against Xeround. Drastic but we ended running a Slicehost mySQL instance. We've recently re-reviewed and found ClearDB to work much better for us so we're now running on that Db.

Answer 2

I have to say that I totally agree with Jhon. I had the same issues. I was running my app [play + heroku + xeround ] but some queries where giving me no results, so I switched to clearDB and everything went fine.