Amazon Aurora Alternatives

Amazon Aurora is described as 'Provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Amazon Aurora for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Self-Hosted, Linux, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Amazon Aurora alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amazon Aurora are MySQL Community Edition, Microsoft SQL Server, Triplit and Google Cloud Spanner.

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  1. PostgreSQL icon

    PostgreSQL

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    PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 35 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

    73 PostgreSQL alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    • PostgreSQL is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Amazon Aurora.

    • PostgreSQL is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Amazon Aurora.

    • PostgreSQL is Free and Open SourceAmazon Aurora is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. MySQL Community Edition icon

    MySQL Community Edition

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    MySQL Community Edition is a freely downloadable version of the world's most popular open source database that is supported by an active community of open source developers and enthusiasts.

    65 MySQL Community Edition alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. Microsoft SQL Server icon

    Microsoft SQL Server

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    SQL Server delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage your data by enabling you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the database.

    66 Microsoft SQL Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Triplit icon

    Triplit

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    A full-stack, syncing database that runs on both server and client. Pluggable storage (indexeddb, sqlite, durable objects), syncs over websockets, and works with your favorite framework (React, Solid, Vue, Svelte).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • Triplit is the most popular SaaS alternative to Amazon Aurora.

    • Triplit is Free and Open SourceAmazon Aurora is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. Google Cloud Spanner icon

    Google Cloud Spanner

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    Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     

    • Google Cloud Spanner is the most popular Web-based alternative to Amazon Aurora.

    • Google Cloud Spanner is the most popular commercial alternative to Amazon Aurora.

    • Google Cloud Spanner is Paid and ProprietaryAmazon Aurora is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Google Cloud AlloyDB icon

    Google Cloud AlloyDB

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    AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service with industry-leading performance, availability, and scale. It automates administrative tasks, such as backups, replication, patching, and capacity management, and uses adaptive algorithms and machine learning...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. TiDB icon

    TiDB

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    TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It's MySQL compatible and can provide horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Hydra Postgres Analytics icon

    Hydra Postgres Analytics

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    Hydra is an open source, column-oriented Postgres. Query billions of rows instantly, no code changes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Citus Data icon

    Citus Data

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    Citus gives you the Postgres you love, plus the superpower of distributed tables. 100% open source. Now with schema-based sharding in Citus 12.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Oracle Database icon

    Oracle Database

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    Oracle Database delivers industry leading performance, scalability, security and reliability on a choice of clustered or single-servers running Windows, Linux, and UNIX. It provides comprehensive features to easily manage the most demanding transaction processing, business...

    60 Oracle Database alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. IBM DB2 icon

    IBM DB2

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    DB2 offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform from Linux to z/OS. DB2 supports storing XML and relational data and offers SQL PL and PL/SQL procedural languages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  14. Matisse icon

    Matisse

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    Matisse Software Inc. delivers database software and services to companies that need to rapidly and cost effectively develop and deploy scalable applications and services. Matisse 9, a Post Object-Relational Database product, is the first ever SQL-Object programmable data server...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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