Acra vs Evervault

Acra protects sensitive data in SQL and NoSQL databases, web applications and backend applications. It offers field-level and searchable encryption, tokenization and data masking. Teams can deploy it as a transparent SQL proxy, an HTTP/gRPC encryption API or client-side SDKs. AcraServer supports PostgreSQL and MySQL wire protocols, including MySQL 5.7+, PostgreSQL 9.4+ and MariaDB 10.3; listed NoSQL and KV stores include MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra and TimescaleDB. Key-management integrations include Amazon KMS, Google Cloud KMS, HashiCorp Vault, Keywhiz and HSMs. Acra can detect requests for planted poison records or honeytokens, raise alarms and halt decryption. It provides security logging for SIEM/SOC analytics and a crypto-signed audit log. Server components run on Linux, with Docker and Kubernetes-compatible images documented; the maker describes Acra as cloud-agnostic and actively supported on Google Cloud Platform, AWS and DigitalOcean. Windows clients can connect to Acra on Linux, but server components should not run on Windows. Community Edition is free forever for non-profit and business use; Enterprise Edition starts at $10,000 a year, with price dependent on deployments and requested features.

Evervault is a developer platform for collecting, storing, processing, and forwarding sensitive data while keeping it encrypted in a customer’s infrastructure. Its dual-custody model has customers store encrypted data while Evervault manages the keys. Relay encrypts or decrypts data in transit between clients and destination servers. Functions run code that decrypts data at runtime, and Enclaves provide isolated environments for Docker containers. Payment products include card collection, 3D Secure, network tokens, Card Account Updater, BIN Lookup, Card Reveal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Developers can connect through SDKs, a REST API, or CLI; listed SDKs cover JavaScript, React, iOS, Android, React Native, Node, Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, and Go. Relay can forward encrypted card data to processors such as Stripe and Adyen. A free sandbox account provides platform testing without a credit card, sales calls, or time limits, but sandbox and production data and access are separate. The Platform plan costs $995 a month plus usage. Evervault is headquartered in Dublin.