G2 Vendor Directory

CockroachDB vs. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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

MetricCockroachDB

by Cockroach Labs

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count29907
Ease of use9.09.0
Ease of setup9.29.0
Quality of support9.28.8
Meets requirements8.99.1
NPS55.55555666.164542
Small Business55.2%28.8%
Mid-Market34.5%37.5%
Enterprise10.3%33.7%
Total page views429646
Total LLM citations3,4362,389

CockroachDB

Overview Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the cloud-native, resilient, distributed SQL database enterprises worldwide trust to run mission-critical AI and other applications that scale fast, avert and survive disaster, and thrive everywhere. It runs on the Big 3 clouds, on prem, and in hybrid configurations powering Fortune 500, Forbes Global 2000, and Inc.

Pros

  • Scalability
  • Database Management
  • Performance
  • Ease of Use
  • High Availability
  • Flexibility

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you up to focus on your apps so you can give them the better performance, availability, security, and compatibility they need. Amazon RDS is available on 6 familiar database instances: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database and SQL Server engines.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Setup Ease
  • Security
  • Backup Services
  • Reliability