Comparison

Amazon Aurora vs IBM Db2

No clear leader: Amazon Aurora (50.2) and IBM Db2 (47.9) 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Aurora50
IBM Db248
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Aurora50 / 100low · 48%updating
IBM Db248 / 100low · 17%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Model
Amazon Aurorafreemium
IBM Db2freemium
Price level
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2low
Transparent
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Fedramp
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Gdpr
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Hipaa
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Pci
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Aurora99.999
IBM Db2
Status page
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
Amazon AuroraFull SQL
IBM Db2Full SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
Amazon AuroraFull
IBM Db2-
Highest isolation level
Amazon Aurora-
IBM Db2-
Consistency
Consistency
Amazon AuroraStrong
IBM Db2-
Scale
Horizontal scale
Amazon AuroraNatively distributed
IBM Db2Natively distributed
Replication
Replication
Amazon Aurora-
IBM Db2-
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2-
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon AuroraServerless
IBM Db2Serverless
Serverless / scale-to-zero
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
Amazon AuroraPostgres protocol
IBM Db2-
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
Amazon Aurora-
IBM Db2-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon AuroraProprietary
IBM Db2Proprietary
Data types
JSON / document support
Amazon Aurora-
IBM Db2
Geo / spatial
Amazon Aurora-
IBM Db2-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Aurora

Aurora is a serverless, relational database service offering zero infrastructure management and instant scaling. It provides 6x the throughput of standard PostgreSQL and MySQL while maintaining full compatibility with both.

Independently observed

IBM Db2

IBM Db2 is an AI-powered autonomous database engineered for performance and resilience, delivering near infinite scalability, real-time analytics, and multicloud support for mission-critical workloads.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Aurora

Pricing not documented yet.

IBM Db2

Free tier

Free tier available

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
CLI
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2
Self-hosted
Amazon Aurora
IBM Db2

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.