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We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and CockroachDB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Amazon Aurora vs. CockroachDB Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer.""The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling.""The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy.""The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature.""We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities.""The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively.""Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."

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"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good.""The product has valuable security features.""The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported.""The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities.""The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations.""CockroachDB is highly reliable.""The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds.""The initial setup and deployment are simple."

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Cons
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers.""I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues.""The pricing could improve. It should be reduced.""The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement.""It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that.""I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases.""There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."

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"The platform could be more extensible.""We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning.""CockroachDB needs to improve store processes.""The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling.""The initial setup and pricing could be improved.""The product must improve its disaster recovery features.""Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network.""I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price could be lower compared to its competitors."
  • "It is quite expensive."
  • "The tool’s pricing depends on the instance type. For cost optimization purposes, we use the result instance category."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "There is no need to buy a license for the product. We can pay as per the use case."
  • "I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being expensive."
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  • "I've used CockroachDB at a small scale on the free accounts because we are only testing."
  • "The pricing is good but can be made cheaper. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten."
  • "The platform is affordable even for the enterprise version. It provides value for investment in terms of performance."
  • "The product's price depends on the user's company and the contract model they enter into with CockroachDB. Depending on the contract model one enters into with CockroachDB, the product may or may not be expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being expensive.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in pricing. I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases.
    Top Answer:The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported.
    Top Answer:I find the serverless offer a bit confusing. The price is a function of the maximum database size. A single SELECT can use a number of request units, for example. If the throughput is high enough, you… more »
    Top Answer:Cockroach nodes were installed in the following: 1. Single host, triple nodes (containers): for evaluation on a low-end PC. 2. Single host, triple nodes (process): to test applications against a… more »
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    Overview

    Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

    Amazon Aurora is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases. It provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial databases at 1/10th the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

    Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 64TB per database instance. It delivers high performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three Availability Zones (AZs).

    Visit the Amazon RDS Management Console to create your first Aurora database instance and start migrating your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.

    CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. It scales horizontally; survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention; supports strongly-consistent ACID transactions; and provides a familiar SQL API for structuring, manipulating, and querying data.

    CockroachDB is inspired by Google’s Spanner and F1 technologies, and it’s completely open source.

    Sample Customers
    Dow Jones, Arizona State University, Verizon, Capital One, United Nations, Nielsen, Autodesk, Fanduel
    Baidu, Kindred, Tierion, Heroic Labs, Gorgias
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government5%
    Manufacturing Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer6%
    Comms Service Provider5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business60%
    Large Enterprise40%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
    Amazon Aurora vs. CockroachDB
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Aurora vs. CockroachDB and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Amazon Aurora is ranked 10th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while CockroachDB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Runs on the background and automatically scales up incase of heavy loads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, SQL Server and MariaDB. See our Amazon Aurora vs. CockroachDB report.

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