Features for Aurora MySQL
Modified date: Monday, June 30, 2025
Table of Contents
Introduction
In its own words, "Aurora is a relational database management system (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility".
General
| Feature | Value | Definition |
|---|
| intro | Aurora is a relational database management system (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. | in their own words - but I reserved the rights to remove some bold claims like "the best", unless it is widely recognized. |
| vendor | Amazon AWS | |
Data Types
| Feature | Value | Definition |
|---|
| int: signess | both | if differentiate signed and unsigned int |
| int: 1-bytes int name | tinyint | |
| int: 2-bytes int name | smallint | |
| int: 3-bytes int name | mediumint | |
| int: 4-bytes int name | int | |
| int: 8-bytes int name | bigint | |
SQL
| Feature | Value | Definition |
|---|
| base | MySQL | |
| SQL: standard complaince | medium | |
| PL: main | SQL + SP | main programming lanage: most database suports SQL because SQL is a well established standard. However, each database would like to extend SQL more or less. |
| PL: other language support | no | PL lanaguage other than PL/SQL, like PL/Java, PL/Rust etc |
| Object-Relational? | no | |
| vector search | no native | does it support vector search |
Storage and System
Benchmarking
Export Regulations
Internal
Internal - Optimizer
Internal - Runtime
Internal - Storage Engine