AMP MySQL vs. PDO MySQL comparison

ampmysql.php

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Amp\Mysql\MysqlConfig;
use Amp\Mysql\MysqlConnectionPool;

$config = MysqlConfig::fromString(
    "host=localhost user=myuser password=mysecret db=mydatabase"
);

$pool = new MysqlConnectionPool($config);

$statement = $pool->prepare("SELECT * FROM my_table");

$result = $statement->execute();
foreach ($result as $row) {
    // $row is an associative-array of column values, e.g.: $row['column_name']
    print_r($row);
}

pdomysql.php

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

try {
    $dsn = "mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=3306;dbname=mydatabase;charset=utf8mb4";
    $username = "myuser";
    $password = "mysecret";

    $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password, [
        PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
        PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
        PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES => false
    ]);

    $statement = $pdo->prepare("SELECT * FROM my_table");
    $statement->execute();

    while ($row = $statement->fetch()) {
        // $row is an associative-array of column values, e.g.: $row['column_name']
        print_r($row);
    }
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}