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.

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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

Note

The , , or with respect to any particular feature of a third-party database is based on our best effort understanding from publicly available information. Readers are always recommended to perform their own independent research to understand the finer details.