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Amazon Aurora vs Apache Cassandra

A side-by-side look at Amazon Aurora and Apache Cassandra. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora

Development

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database service created by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases at a lower cost.

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Apache Cassandra

Apache Cassandra

Databases

Apache Cassandra is a free, open-source, distributed NoSQL database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.

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