Aurva Database Activity Monitoring vs DATASKOPE

Aurva Database Activity Monitoring is a paid, self-hosted product for monitoring database queries from people, service accounts, and AI agents. It identifies the responsible actor and shows role, application, and access path. For AI agents, it builds behavioral baselines and alerts when activity deviates from expected patterns. Policies can govern access by identity, data sensitivity, location, and time, including blocking access or redacting columns. Aurva describes a passive, out-of-band architecture that monitors traffic without sitting in the query path and says it adds 0 ms of application latency. Deployment options include agent, agentless, combined, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid setups. Named coverage includes PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery, DynamoDB, Kafka, and other stores, with integrations including Databricks, Amazon Athena, Aurora, Redis, and Microsoft SQL Server. Aurva lists audit logging and sensitive-data monitoring aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 objectives. Pricing is custom and available on request.

DATASKOPE monitors, analyzes, alerts on, and reports database activity in real time. It records who accessed sensitive data, where access came from, which transactions occurred, and when. Audit visibility can be limited by user, database, table, and command. Recorded operations include SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, and EXEC, showing what changed and by whom. DATASKOPE tracks successful and unsuccessful logins plus administrative actions such as creating or deleting users. Predefined alarm rules classify database events and notify responsible people. Its NoSQL search engine distributes searches across nodes and is described as scaling horizontally and vertically. Audit data can be automatically backed up and archived, with geographic replication and local redundancy. The product supports multiple database engines and is presented for activity monitoring, access governance, audit reporting, and threat detection. Pricing is not published; Plainex offers contact and demo requests.