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Top Amazon Aurora Alternatives and Competitors

Looking to upgrade or change your solution? Take away the guesswork and stay informed with end user feedback to identify and select the solution that best matches your needs.

Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high-performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. Amazon Aurora provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.

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Best Alternatives and Competitors to Amazon Aurora

Compare how Amazon Aurora stacks up to the competition in the areas that matter most to real users to short list options that will best fit your business needs.

Oracle

Oracle Database

8.9

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+92

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104

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Oracle Database is:

Easier to Use

Better at Support

Less Transparent

Less Efficient

Less Innovative

Less Respectful

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft SQL Server

8.9

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+92

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167

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server is:

Easier to Use

Less Innovative

Worse at Support

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Less Efficient

Cloudera

Cloudera Operational Database

8.8

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+99

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35

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Cloudera Operational Database is:

Better at Support

Easier to Use

Easier to Implement

More Inspiring

More Caring

Better at Training

Progress Software

Progress Data Platform

8.4

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+90

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50

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Progress Data Platform is:

Less Inspiring

Worse at Training

Worse at Integrating

Worse at Support

Harder to Implement

Less Reliable

Redis Labs

Redis Enterprise

7.9

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+91

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20

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Redis Enterprise is:

More Caring

Easier to Implement

Less Reliable

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Less Efficient

IBM

IBM Db2

7.9

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+91

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27

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, IBM Db2 is:

Harder to Implement

Less Transparent

Worse at Training

Less Efficient

Less Innovative

Worse at Support

SAP

SAP HANA Cloud

7.7

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+90

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45

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, SAP HANA Cloud is:

Less Transparent

Harder to Customize

Worse at Training

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Harder to Implement

Neo4J

Neo4j Graph Database

7.6

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+90

Emotional
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18

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Neo4j Graph Database is:

Easier to Use

Less Inspiring

Worse at Support

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Less Efficient

Percona

Percona MySQL

7.6

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+94

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16

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Percona MySQL is:

Less Inspiring

Less Transparent

Less Respectful

Harder to Use

Harder to Implement

Worse at Support

Microsoft Corporation

Azure Cosmos DB

7.6

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+89

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22

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Azure Cosmos DB is:

Less Respectful

Less Transparent

Less Efficient

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Less Innovative

Teradata

Teradata VantageCloud

7.5

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Score

+88

Emotional
Footprint

32

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Teradata VantageCloud is:

Less Inspiring

Less Respectful

Less Innovative

Less Caring

Worse at Training

Less Efficient

IBM

IBM Informix

7.3

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+70

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26

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, IBM Informix is:

Less Innovative

Less Inspiring

Less Reliable

Less Transparent

Less Caring

Less Efficient

Couchbase

Couchbase Server

7.1

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+74

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22

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Compared to Amazon Aurora, Couchbase Server is:

Less Transparent

Less Innovative

Less Efficient

Less Inspiring

Less Reliable

Harder to Customize

Most Popular Amazon Aurora Comparisons