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Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is best suited for creating complex, highly available and commercial databases, in a very straightforward way. The database size should be medium to large because only then will you be able to justify the extra cost incurred for using Amazon Aurora. Another aspect is that if you are already using AWS and most of your applications and services are on the cloud, then it makes sense to use Amazon Aurora since it fits in the Amazon ecosystem really well.

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPresto
Engineering Manager - Ride Experience
UberInternet, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
Amazon Aurora
- Performance: We utilize Aurora as a PostgreSQL replacement, and Aurora's throughput is up to 3 times higher.
- Simple Instance Auto-Scaling: We can scale the underlying database engine up or down with no down time.
- Auto-Growing Storage: Rather than having to over-provision, Aurora automatically adds blocks of 10GB to your storage cluster up to multiple terabytes of storage.

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Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesPresto
- Linking, embedding links and adding images is easy enough.
- Once you have become familiar with the interface, Presto becomes very quick & easy to use (but, you have to practice & repeat to know what you are doing - it is not as intuitive as one would hope).
- Organizing & design is fairly simple with click & drag parameters.
Consumer Sales & Sevice Manager
GannettMedia Production, 10,001+ employees
Cons
Amazon Aurora
- Just like AWS DynamoDB which is a not a SQL solution and is truly a global DB, it would be great if AWS Aurora can become a global DB. What that means is that it is multi-region multi-master. That way writes to different regions of AWS would all be in sync and available in replicas on different regions.

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Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPresto
- Presto was not designed for large fact fact joins. This is by design as presto does not leverage disk and used memory for processing which in turn makes it fast.. However, this is a tradeoff..in an ideal world, people would like to use one system for all their use cases, and presto should get exhaustive by solving this problem.
- Resource allocation is not similar to YARN and presto has a priority queue based query resource allocation..so a query that takes long takes longer...this might be alleviated by giving some more control back to the user to define priority/override.
- UDF Support is not available in presto. You will have to write your own functions..while this is good for performance, it comes at a huge overhead of building exclusively for presto and not being interoperable with other systems like Hive, SparkSQL etc.
Engineering Manager - Ride Experience
UberInternet, 5001-10,000 employees
Support
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora 7.7
Based on 3 answers
The support as a whole cannot be applied to just Aurora, but I must say that the response to our tickets from the AWS side was a bit anemic. Despite that, there is plenty of documentation and forum articles that should make anybody self-serviced. Again, let me stress this out - the product (in either MySQL or Postgres form) was used by many people and thus now well understood, explained and there are plenty of books and other material available. This is not the case that we encountered with NoSQL.
Senior Data Platform Consultant
Parsons CorporationComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Aurora
Using cloud-based services such as RDS or Aurora take all the hassle out of managing database servers yourself. It also gives you the flexibility to easily spin up and down additional instances and as when required. Where Aurora outshines RDS is in terms of performance - we saw around 2-5x improvement in query read times across the board.
Backend Software Engineer
10 Digital Media LimitedSports, 1-10 employees
Presto
Presto is good for a templated design appeal. You cannot be too creative via this interface - but, the layout and options make the finalized visual product appealing to customers. The other design products I use are for different purposes and not really comparable to Presto.
Consumer Sales & Sevice Manager
GannettMedia Production, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
Amazon Aurora
- The customers where we implemented Amazon Aurora database don't need to have an employee specialized in features and security upgrades.
- The database replication and schedule for backup tasks are much easier, so less prone to errors.
- We have never had a database downtime on our applications, which is essential for our customer business.
Senior Consultant
SoftINSATelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees
Presto
- Presto has helped scale Uber's interactive data needs. We have migrated a lot out of proprietary tech like Vertica.
- Presto has helped build data driven applications on its stack than maintain a separate online/offline stack.
- Presto has helped us build data exploration tools by leveraging it's power of interactive and is immensely valuable for data scientists.
Engineering Manager - Ride Experience
UberInternet, 5001-10,000 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Aurora
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Presto
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No