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Amazon RDS vs YugabyteDB comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (2nd)
YugabyteDB
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
26th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 1.1%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of YugabyteDB is 2.4%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon RDS1.1%
YugabyteDB2.4%
Other96.5%
Relational Databases Tools
 

Featured Reviews

BS
AWS Architect at Virtual University
Customer support and automated backups offer reliability while ease of deployment enhances user experience
The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, data warehousing and analytics, and software as a service platforms, along with dev testing environments, disaster recoveries, and backups. The mobile app backend and development environment is also the best feature for database management for my customers. Database management is effective in Amazon RDS because it offers automated backups, high availability, read replicas, and support from multiple database engineers, while also providing security, monitoring and metrics, scalability. We are using snapshots and database migrations as well as performance optimization. The impact of Amazon RDS scalability and backup has been positive, with good vertical scaling, scale up and down, horizontal scaling, and storage scaling. The performance was good and availability helped with reducing downtime.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise22
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?
Currently, I cannot think of any major improvements. Perhaps more platforms in terms of database engine versions would be beneficial. Right now, Amazon RDS supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, but there ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon RDS?
I am a Solutions Architect, so I design solutions for our clients. Prior to this role, I was an implementation engineer, so I also implement solutions for our customers.
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Sample Customers

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