Aiven vs CockroachDB
No clear leader: Aiven (69.3) and CockroachDB (65.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for managed databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Aiven
A fully managed cloud platform providing multiple open source data services—streaming, databases, analytics, and search—with enterprise-grade security and compliance features included across all service tiers.
CockroachDB
A cloud-native SQL database that scales automatically across machines without manual sharding, supporting ACID transactions and multi-region deployments. It survives node, zone, and regional failures with minimal disruption and is compatible with PostgreSQL applications.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Aiven
Free tier with no credit card required; production plans with hourly usage-based billing. All tiers include automated backups, monitoring, and security features with no hidden fees.
- DeveloperFlat monthly fee for development and prototyping
- Always-on managed services
- Automated backups
- Monitoring
- SSO
- PrivateLink
- BusinessProduction tier with high availability, 99.99% uptime SLA, and automated backups
- Multi-node clusters with automatic failover
- 14-day backup retention
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Zero-downtime version upgrades
- Automatic security patching
- +3 more
- EnterpriseEnterprise compliance, data residency options, and dedicated support
- 1 month backup retention
- HIPAA compliance
- ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS, GDPR compliance
- SSO on all service tiers
- PrivateLink
- +3 more
CockroachDB
From $0.057/vCPU-hr. Free 30-day trial with $400 credit.
- StandardFrom $0.057/vCPU-hr, 99.99% SLA
- 99.99% availability SLA
- Single- or multi-region on AWS and GCP
- Row-level security
- Column-level encryption
- Private connectivity
- +2 more
- Mission Critical$0.162/vCPU-hr, 99.999% SLA
- 99.999% availability SLA with multi-region
- Egress controls
- CMEK
- PCI DSS & HIPAA compliance
- All add-ons available
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Datadog
- New Relic
Aiven
- Auth0
- Okta
- Azure AD
- OneLogin
- Apache Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- OpenSearch
- MySQL
- Apache Flink
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Cursor
- Kafka
- ClickHouse
- Apache Cassandra
- GitHub
CockroachDB
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Vercel
- HashiCorp
- pgvector
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- MOLT (Migration Tool)
- PostgreSQL drivers
- SQLAlchemy
- Google Cloud
Aiven or CockroachDB: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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