Aurora DSQL Vs YugabyteDB: Distributed SQL Database Comparison
Distributed SQL databases Aurora DSQL & YugabyteDB compared: Aurora prioritizes scalability over features, while Yugabyte supports more PostgreSQL features for high-performance applications.
This was originally posted on the Yugabyte blog and details the Aurora DSQL Disaggregated Architecture Seven years after the launch of the first cloud-native distributed SQL database, Google Spanner, AWS has entered the distributed SQL arena. Amazon announced Aurora DSQL at re:Invent 2024. This new distributed SQL database validates the growing importance of distributed SQL and introduces unique architectural features tied to the AWS infrastructure. YugabyteDB was the first distributed SQL database to use PostgreSQL code for SQL processing, rather than emulating it in another language. Amazo...