We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and Exasol 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."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."
"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."
"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 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 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."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"Its speed is great."
"It is easy to scale."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Exasol is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, CockroachDB and MySQL, whereas Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, SAP HANA, Vertica, Oracle Database In-Memory and MySQL. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Exasol report.
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