# FoundationDB vs Amazon Aurora

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [January 12, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009 "2019-01-12T16:20:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnZ622](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/johnz622/32/467_2.png) [@JohnZ622](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/JohnZ622)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009/1 "2019-01-12T16:20:31Z")

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Hi,

If someone were to build a MySQL layer on top of FoundationDB, in that case what would be the main value difference between FoundationDB+MySQL layer vs. Amazon Aurora?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![alexmiller](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/alexmiller/32/326_2.png) [@alexmiller](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/alexmiller)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/foundationdb-vs-amazon-aurora/1009/2 "2019-01-13T09:56:45Z")

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A MySQL-compatible layer for FDB would create something quite similar to what [TiDB](https://pingcap.com) is today. On a chinese forum, there was a [similar question asked](https://www.zhihu.com/question/56669587), and the [translated answers there](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AWQ88ofYf4jYJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.zhihu.com%2Fquestion%2F56669587%26hl%3Den%26gl%3Dus%26strip%3D1%26vwsrc%3D0) would likely be relevant.