G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Aurora vs. YugabyteDB

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Aurora

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

YugabyteDB

by Yugabyte, Inc.

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count45665
Ease of use8.99.2
Ease of setup8.88.7
Quality of support8.99.6
Meets requirements9.19.3
NPS65.51724170.967742
Small Business37.7%41.3%
Mid-Market33.8%46.0%
Enterprise28.5%12.7%
Total page views391595
Total LLM citations1,5323,746

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, Aurora delivers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL databases and up to three times that of standard PostgreSQL databases. It is designed for high availability, offering up to 99.99% availability within a single region and up to 99.999% across multiple regions.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
  • Availability
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • High Availability

YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB is AI-ready, turbocharged PostgreSQL for business-critical transactional applications. 100% open source, it offers built-in resilience, on-demand scaling, and more! YugabyteDB eliminates the tradeoffs you get with legacy databases by uniquely combining enterprise-grade RDBMS capabilities with the horizontal scalability and resilience of cloud native architectures. YugabyteDB delivers a single logical database that can span across any cloud (private, public or hybrid).

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Reliability
  • High Availability
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Ease of Use