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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. AntDB vs. CockroachDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. AntDB vs. CockroachDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.11
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#338  Overall
#149  Relational DBMS
Score4.29
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.cockroachlabs.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedCockroach Labs
Initial release20152015
Current release24.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL2016 compliantyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

Vacasa’s migration to Amazon Aurora for a more efficient Property Management System
9 January 2025, AWS Blog

Introducing Amazon Aurora DSQL | Amazon Web Services
3 December 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
31 October 2024, AWS Blog

Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2
20 November 2024, AWS Blog

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8 October 2024, AWS Blog

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15 August 2024, TechCrunch

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