Compare YugabyteDB with other distributed SQL and NoSQL databases

Compare YugabyteDB to other databases

See how YugabyteDB compares with other operational databases in the distributed SQL and NoSQL categories. For a detailed comparison, click the database name.

Distributed SQL databases

Feature CockroachDB TiDB Vitess Amazon Aurora Google Cloud Spanner YugabyteDB
Horizontal write scalability (with auto-sharding and rebalancing)
Automated failover & repair
Distributed ACID transactions
SQL Foreign Keys
SQL Joins
Serializable isolation level
Global consistency across multi-DC/regions
Follower reads
Built-in enterprise features (such as CDC)
SQL compatibility PostgreSQL MySQL MySQL MySQL, PostgreSQL Proprietary PostgreSQL
Open Source Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0

NoSQL databases

Feature MongoDB FoundationDB Apache Cassandra Amazon DynamoDB MS Azure CosmosDB YugabyteDB
Horizontal write scalability (with auto-sharding and rebalancing)
Automated failover & repair
Distributed ACID transactions
Consensus-driven, strongly-consistent replication
Strongly-consistent secondary indexes
Multiple read consistency levels
High data density
API MongoDB QL Proprietary KV, MongoDB QL Cassandra QL Proprietary KV, Document Cassandra QL, MongoDB QL Yugabyte Cloud QL w/ native document modeling
Open Source Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0

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