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Availability
Tied to each cloud provider, AWS or GCP only
All public clouds, on prem and local
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Architecture
Designed as single instance architecture
Architected to span globally distributed data centers, yet still valuable in a single data center
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Scale
Scale only through bigger machines or operationally intense manual sharding
Elastic and auto scale means minimal-to-no operations
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Resilience
Manual operations required for active-passive failover and complex remediation
Naturally resilient to outages with granular control at the row level
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Required downtime
Database must be taken offline for upgrades and schema changes
No downtime upgrades and online schema changes
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Transactional consistency
Configurable to guarantee consistency but only in a single instance
Guaranteed correct data in single data center and beyond
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Multi-region
Limited ability to optimize latency concerns for multi-region writes
Advances in parallel commits and transaction pipelining reduce broad geographic transaction latencies
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Data residency
Entire database lives in a single region; data residency is not an option
Data is tied to a node at the row level to optimize performance and/or regulatory compliance
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Hybrid and multi-cloud deployment
Tied to explicit instances only, no options for multi and/or hybrid cloud
Run anywhere on any cloud, even across regions and clouds
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Migrations
Simple and fairly straightforward
Wire compatible with PostgreSQL with some required work for syntax
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Freedom
Tied to a public cloud provider
Run anywhere and across multiple clouds
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Pricing
Simple straightforward pricing, with complexities around active-passive systems
Simple, straightforward pricing, plus the ability to tie data to a location to avoid egress costs