| Description | | Distributed SQL DB | Self-Managed DBaaS | Fully-Managed DBaaS |
| Core Features | | | | |
| Distributed Document Store | Linear scaling of reads and writes across multiple regions. High availability under any failure. Built on a durable LSM storage engine with Raft distributed consensus-based strongly consistent replication with inspiration from Google Spanner. Written ground-up in C++ for high performance. | YES | YES | YES |
| ACID Transactions | Blazing fast single-key and single-shard ACID for majority workloads. Fully distributed ACID whenever needed for high data integrity. | YES | YES | YES |
| Distributed SQL APIs | Serve both scale-out RDBMS and internet-scale OLTP workloads with low query latency, extreme resilience against failures and global data distribution. PostgreSQL compatible. | YES | YES | YES |
| Basic Security | Includes internal authentication and authorization. Ready for storing sensitive, mission-critical data without fear of compromise. | YES | YES | YES |
| Bring-Your-Own Administration | Plug into your existing DevOps toolchain. E.g. orchestrate clusters with Kubernetes/Chef, monitor/alert via Prometheus. | YES | YES | YES |
| Data Migration Tools | Migrate out of legacy
databases easily. | YES | YES | YES |
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| Enterprise-Grade Features | | | | |
| Read Replicas | Low-latency, timeline-consistent reads in remote regions by reading from local read replicas. Write latencies remain low. Powered by asynchronous replication. | YES | YES | YES |
| Preferred Region Placement & Continuous Balancing | Low-latency, strongly consistent reads optimized for well-known primary regions. | YES | YES | YES |
| Security & Compliance | Encryption in-flight and at rest. Integration with key management systems. | YES | YES | YES |
| Distributed Backups & Restore | Your mission-critical data protected against unforeseen disasters with extreme ease. | YES | YES | YES |
| Change Data Capture [BETA] | Drive external apps such as OLAP analytics or Kafka streaming by capturing row-level, in-sequence change streams. | YES | YES | YES |
| xCluster Async Replication | Remove WAN latency from the write path through xCluster Master-Follower and Multi-Master 2-Data Center deployments. Powered by Change Data Capture streams. | YES | YES | YES |
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| Cloud Native Operational Excellence | | | | |
| Multi-Cloud Cluster Orchestration | One-click create/expand/shrink of database clusters across multiple regions on public clouds, private data centers and Kubernetes distributions. | | YES | YES |
| Management of Multiple Clusters | Central management for multiple database clusters. | | YES | YES |
| No Cloud Lock-in | Natively integrated with public cloud platforms to automate deployments. Seamless portability across clouds avoids lock-in. | | YES | YES |
| Monitoring & Alerting | Complete performance and availability monitoring solution. | | YES | YES |
| Scheduled Backups | Automated backups with a schedule that works best for you. | | YES | YES |
| Automated Software Upgrades | Rolling software upgrades that can be initiated via UI and API. | | YES | YES |
| VPC Peering | Create database clusters in a secure VPC of their own and peer the new VPC with your application's VPC. | | YES | YES |
| Highly Reliable Admin Console | Always available to monitor and manage your clusters. | | YES | YES |
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| Managed Operations | | | | |
| Unified Billing including IaaS Cost | Single bill that includes both DBaaS and IaaS cost. | | | YES |
| Managed Multi-Cloud Orchestration | Available on public cloud platforms including AWS and Google Cloud. | | | YES |
| Managed Software Upgrades | Fully-managed, zero-downtime software upgrades with the latest enhancements and fixes. | | | YES |
| Managed Backups | Fully-managed, scheduled database backups to AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage. | | | YES |
| Enterprise SLA | Uptime guarantees that adhere to strict enterprise SLAs. | | | YES |
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| Support | | | | |
| Emergency Patches | Get emergency patches not yet released in open source. | | YES | YES |
| Coverage & Channels | Your apps do not have downtime, neither does our support. | Slack, GitHub & Forum | 24/7/365 Web & Phone | 24/7/365 Web & Phone |
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| License | | Apache 2.0 | Commercial | Commercial |
| Pricing | | Free | Based on the number of CPU cores (physical or virtual) in your environment. | Pay per use |