Amazon Aurora

AWS's MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database, the engines rebuilt on a distributed storage layer shared by replicas. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Amazon Web Services
Created by
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First release
2015
License
Proprietary
Open source
No
Pricing
Paid
Website
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora
Written in
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Data model
Relational
Storage layout
Row-oriented
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
SQL (MySQL or PostgreSQL dialect)
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Managed cloud
Scaling
Replication
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Only the log is written to storage); Read: fast (Up to 15 read replicas on the same storage); Update: moderate (As in the MySQL or PostgreSQL engine it runs); Delete: moderate (As in the MySQL or PostgreSQL engine it runs)

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