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Amazon Aurora Alternatives

4.6(475 Ratings)
Cloud Database Management Systems

Considering alternatives to Amazon Aurora? See what this market Amazon Aurora users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. SQL Server

By Microsoft

4.5
(1972 Ratings)
It has been largely positive. It is a reliable and robust database platform with strong performance, good tooling and a wide range of features. Certain areas such as licensing costs, performance tuning complexity and occasional quirks with query optimization do add to the overall slowdowns of my process and limit what i can do. Overall, it remains dependable and well supported.Read all insights and reviews for SQL Server

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Better at delivery and execution
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
  • More effective at planning and transition
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2. MongoDB Atlas

By MongoDB

4.5
(1214 Ratings)
My overall experience with MongoDB Atlas is very positive. The platform is intuitive and user friendly, even for someone who isn't deep technical. The web console is cleanly designed, making it easy to create clusters, manage databases, and monitor performance without needing to dive into complex commands.Read all insights and reviews for MongoDB Atlas

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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3. Oracle AI Database

By Oracle

4.5
(1156 Ratings)
As a user of the program, I like the easy-to-use tile system however it takes time to navigate and remember what tile to find things in. Read all insights and reviews for Oracle AI Database

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
  • Better evaluation and contracting
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4. Teradata VantageCloud

By Teradata

4.6
(631 Ratings)
Over the nine years we have been a customer of Teradata they have always done their best to meet our needs. While not always perfect, there are many occasions in which they have gone above and beyond to assist us, whether through sales, technical support, or product development.Read all insights and reviews for Teradata VantageCloud

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
  • Better evaluation and contracting
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5. Oracle MySQL HeatWave

By Oracle

4.5
(617 Ratings)
Overall, I have been happy with MySQL since I started using it 5 years ago. One of the nice things about it is that it includes design and development components in one place.Read all insights and reviews for Oracle MySQL HeatWave

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at delivery and execution
  • More effective at planning and transition
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6. Amazon Redshift

By Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.4
(548 Ratings)
Redshift has been a great tool for the storage and serving of our Google Analytics data. It has allowed us to capture a lot of information as we see a lot of traffic and then send it down stream for further processing.Read all insights and reviews for Amazon Redshift

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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7. SAP HANA Cloud

By SAP

4.4
(408 Ratings)
We are very happy with the product as it is easy to access through launchpad and insights, data storage and retrieval times.Read all insights and reviews for SAP HANA Cloud

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Better at delivery and execution
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
  • More effective at planning and transition
  • Better evaluation and contracting
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8. Google BigQuery

By Google

4.5
(391 Ratings)
A very robust tool that serves most of our use-cases, the only complaint being related to how some of our third-party vendors have technical difficulties sharing their data sources and projects with us with the intent to integrate them to our data lake/warehouse. We faced both issues with permissions and intra-region availability, delaying the process of making the datasets available to our users.Read all insights and reviews for Google BigQuery

Where Amazon Aurora Scored Higher

  • Better at service and support
  • Better at delivery and execution
  • Easier to integrate and deploy
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Top Alternatives to Amazon Aurora

  • SQL Server
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Oracle AI Database
  • Teradata VantageCloud
  • Oracle MySQL HeatWave
  • Amazon Redshift
  • SAP HANA Cloud
  • Google BigQuery

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