Amazon Aurora vs SAP SQL Anywhere comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SAP are both solutions in the Relational Databases Tools category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5, while SAP is ranked #17 with an average rating of 10.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 2.8% mindshare in SQL, compared to SAP’s 1.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of SAP users who would recommend it.

Amazon Aurora

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

SAP SQL Anywhere and Amazon Aurora compete in the database solutions category. Amazon Aurora is often seen as superior due to its advanced cloud capabilities and superior scalability in cloud-centric environments.

Features: SAP SQL Anywhere provides robust mobile support and synchronization, ideal for edge applications. It is also known for its intuitive user interface and ease of management in offline scenarios. Amazon Aurora offers high availability, fault tolerance, and autoscaling, with integration into AWS services. Its self-managing capabilities, such as log rolling and autoscaling, reduce user input significantly.

Room for Improvement: SAP SQL Anywhere could enhance its cloud integration capabilities and improve automatic scaling features to better compete with cloud-native solutions. Improving its customer support infrastructure would also be beneficial. Amazon Aurora could refine its pricing model to make it more attractive for smaller deployments and improve the ease of migration for non-AWS users. Simplifying its user interface for less technical users could also be beneficial.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SAP SQL Anywhere is noted for simpler deployment in hybrid and offline scenarios, appealing to organizations with existing on-premise infrastructure. Amazon Aurora leverages AWS's comprehensive suite of cloud services for deployment, providing automated scaling and management. Its customer service benefits from AWS's robust support network, facilitating cloud adoption for larger applications.

Pricing and ROI: SAP SQL Anywhere offers a lower initial setup cost, making it suitable for on-premise scenarios with significant offline needs. Its pricing can be a major advantage for users who do not require cloud scalability. Amazon Aurora employs a scalable pricing model, providing better long-term ROI for large-scale applications due to its pay-as-you-go approach and reduced management overhead. This makes it cost-effective for large deployments despite potentially higher initial costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Aurora

Ranking in Relational Databases Tools

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SAP SQL Anywhere

Ranking in Relational Databases Tools

17th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon Aurora is 2.8%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP SQL Anywhere is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Relational Databases Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon Aurora	2.8%
SAP SQL Anywhere	1.1%
Other	96.1%

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Adnan Shafiq

Associate Vice President - Database Management (Principal Solutions Architect) at Northbay

High availability and geographical redundancy ensure reliable performance and cost efficiency

Amazon Aurora provides up to fifteen to sixteen read replicas. It replicates data across multiple Availability Zones, ensuring high availability and geographical redundancy, which can be considered a GR instead of a DR. As a managed service, maintenance tasks like backup and restore are handled by AWS, saving my organization significant time and money. Additionally, its fast cloning feature allows us to create a new clone from a large database swiftly, similar to a zero-copy cloning feature in Snowflake. This makes Amazon Aurora a compelling choice for my organization.

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Crewmem67

IT Consultant at College Notre Dame de Nazareth

Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure

It is not as good as a SQL Server. I prefer to work with the SQL Server for Microsoft or Oracle. These are better as there are some comments on SQL Anywhere that makes me feel that I'm blocked. We'd like to have them update to a new version. They should update more often. I find I can't move to a new version without running tests as there are chances of bugs that can get into my system. The initial setup is not simple or straightforward, and it took a while to deploy. It is not as secure as it could be. This is an aspect they need to improve. There needs to be more encryption.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"Amazon Aurora is built on community databases and AWS has added additional features to it, allowing customers to have enterprise-level features at a lower cost."

"My overall experience with Amazon Aurora is very positive. I rate it ten out of ten for its reliability and efficiency."

"The most valuable features of Amazon Aurora include the global instance with the global writer endpoint, which allows failovers and instance switches without requiring changes in my code, thanks to the default global Route 53 endpoint."

"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."

"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 provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."

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"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."

"The most valuable features of SAP SQL Anywhere are the ease of use and the user interface is intuitive."

"It works well in general."

"The auto-backup replication is a perfect feature. That is the feature I liked the most."

"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."

Cons

"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."

"I don't use Amazon Aurora's global database feature; I just use the local feature."

"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."

"While Amazon Aurora meets your current scaling and storage needs, there is room for improvement in cryptography and scalability compared to other databases."

"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 are tuning challenges."

"Amazon Aurora should upgrade its base PostgreSQL versions more frequently and offer all PostgreSQL extensions."

"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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"SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA."

"We have had some stability issues with SAP SQL Anywhere, but I am not sure if it is an application or network issue. We sometimes have a large amount of data being queried and it cannot handle it."

"The interface is not easy in comparison to the SQL Server. It could be more user-friendly."

"A problem we are experiencing now is when doing a backup in SQL 2012 and 14."

"It is not as secure as it could be."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an expensive solution."

"It is quite expensive."

"The price could be lower compared to its competitors."

"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."

"The tool’s pricing depends on the instance type. For cost optimization purposes, we use the result instance category."

"SQL Anywhere cost us about $400."

"SAP SQL Anywhere is affordable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

24%

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

Retailer

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Aurora?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Aurora?

The pricing for Amazon Aurora is different from DocumentDB because DocumentDB is cheaper. However, when you manage the administration more closely, you can control costs better with Amazon Aurora. ...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Aurora?

I would like to see some tutorials from Amazon for Aurora because I'm too new to it. I believe Amazon can make more tutorials for the product since there's a lot of reading required, and a short tu...

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What do you like most about SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere is affordable.

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What needs improvement with SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA.

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Comparisons

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SAP SQL Anywhere enables companies to develop custom mobile and IoT application and rapidly design and deploy embedded database applications. The RDBMS solutions can provide secure, reliable data management and synchronization for thousands of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and remote environments. They let business users work uninterrupted, even without a network connection.

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Sample Customers

Dow Jones, Arizona State University, Verizon, Capital One, United Nations, Nielsen, Autodesk, Fanduel

AOK Bundesverband, Surgutneftegas Open Joint Stock Company, Molson Coors Brewing Company, City of Buenos Aires, ASR Group, Citrix, EarlySense, Usha International Limited, Automotive Resources International, Wªrth Group, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Coelba, RZD Russian Railways, National Basketball Association, TALLY WEiJL

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