We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and Teradata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"I like this solution's ease of design and the fact that its performance is quite good. It is stable as well."
"I found all parts --loading, transformation, processing & querying work in parallel, and end-to-end-- to be valuable."
"The most valuable features are the Shared-nothing architecture and data protection functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is security. It runs on Unix and Linux platforms which provide better security."
"The feature that we find most valuable is its ability to perform Massive Parallel Processing."
"It's the same as your visual database. I like the fast load feature for data, the BTQ solution is very good, and storage procedures are very fast."
"It is a solid database a lot of different tools to move data."
"Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency."
"The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
"I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement."
"The setup is not straightforward."
"Teradata's UI could be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with many different types of data."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 10th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Teradata is ranked 7th in Relational Databases Tools with 54 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, CockroachDB and SingleStore, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, MySQL and BigQuery. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Teradata report.
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