Amazon Aurora vs CrateDB

Amazon Aurora

Figure	Amazon Aurora	CrateDB
Price from	Free	Free
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Free trial	—	—
Open source	—	Yes
Web	—	Yes
Windows	—	Yes
macOS	—	Yes
Linux	—	Yes
API	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted	—	Yes
Plans published	4	17
Spec score · Spatial Databases	8.2 (#13)	9.3 (#1)
Spec score · Distributed SQL Databases	8.1 (#12)	9.3 (#1)
Spec score · Database Software	8.1 (#41)	9.0 (#10)
Compliance	AWS lists Aurora in compliance programs that include SOC, PCI, FedRAMP, and HIPAA.	CrateDB Cloud holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, according to the security page.
Founded	2006	2013
Free plan	No	Yes
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, United States	Redwood City, California, United States
Integrations	Aurora MySQL can invoke AWS Lambda functions and load data from or save data to Amazon S3.	Documented integrations include Tableau Cloud, Power BI, Kafka, StreamSets, DBeaver, Prometheus, Grafana, Airflow, Superset, Metabase, Excel and n8n.
Security	Aurora supports encryption at rest using AWS KMS keys and uses SSL (AES-256) to secure data in transit.	CrateDB describes authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging and compliance certifications across managed and self-managed deployments.
Support	Customers with an active AWS Premium Support plan can contact AWS for Aurora-specific troubleshooting and guidance.	Support options include a Discourse community, GitHub issues and feature requests, documentation and paid support plans.

Amazon Aurora has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

CrateDB has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.