This whitepaper analyzes the real-world overhead of native database auditing compared to DAM agents. Based on empirical tests across modern RDBMS and NoSQL platforms, native auditing shows minimal performance impact—typically under 5%, even with complex workloads or full activity logging. It highlights how overhead depends more on the audit policy and data volume than the monitoring method. Unlike DAM agents, which require shipping all data for off-host analysis (increasing system load), native auditing offers granular, policy-driven control for monitoring privileged users, sensitive data, and admin actions—providing efficient, low-impact, and precise auditing.

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