We compared Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora, Oracle Database is praised for its advanced analytics capabilities, seamless integration, and efficient data management, despite complex setup costs and higher pricing. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora is commended for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, and user-friendly interface, with varying feedback on pricing and setup. Both databases receive positive reviews for customer service and support, with suggestions for improvements in functionality and user experience.
Features: Oracle Database is known for its excellent performance, high scalability, advanced analytics capabilities, efficient data management, and seamless integration. In contrast, Amazon Aurora stands out for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, easy-to-use interface, and user-friendly management options.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Oracle Database is considered high, but justifiable due to its advanced features. Expert assistance is often required, making it complex and time-consuming. Amazon Aurora offers no upfront setup costs, making implementation easy. However, licensing terms for both products can vary and be challenging to navigate., Users have reported highly favorable ROI with Oracle Database, praising its ability to streamline operations, enhance security, improve data management, increase scalability, and boost productivity. Amazon Aurora also showed positive and valuable ROI.
Room for Improvement: Oracle Database could benefit from improvements in performance optimization, enhanced documentation and support resources, simplified installation processes, and more intuitive user interfaces. In contrast, Amazon Aurora needs enhancements in performance, scalability, backup and restoration processes, user interface, and pricing structure.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora indicate that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can vary. Some users mentioned a longer timeframe for Oracle Database, with multiple phases involved, while the feedback for Amazon Aurora suggests varying durations for deployment and setup, depending on the context., Oracle Database's customer service is praised for its promptness and efficiency, as well as their knowledgeable and helpful support team. Users appreciate the clear and concise communication provided. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora's customer service has been positively received for its prompt and helpful assistance, efficient support staff, and positive user reviews.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"It is a stable product. In terms of recovery, if there is a failure or some kind of fault, we can recover the data. We do not lose it."
"A really large and very useful language to process data."
"The thing two things that I like most about Oracle Database are its scalability and performance."
"It's a secure market leader."
"Oracle Database is very stable. In terms of stability and performance, Oracle is super. On the database side, Oracle is number one in our tests."
"The best features of Oracle Database Server are the security, high availability, and the Disaster Recovery solutions with the Data Guard. Specifically, on Autonomous Databases, the most valuable features are the automatic scaling and CPU scaling depending on the database workload. Today, the workload is normal and then suddenly the workload gets a spike."
"I love the performance tuning feature of Oracle Database because it provides hints and indexing, which are very valuable. Some of its other valuable features are its rack, record key vaults, and backup compression."
"You can scale the solution without any issues."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"The price of the Oracle Database should be cheaper."
"Support is not available when one encounters problems."
"Cloud installations using Oracle are not supported by SAP."
"The user interface could be better."
"Their migration strategies could be better because most of these companies keep the same version for six or seven years and then update it to the latest version."
"Oracle support is helpful, and they resolve all our issues, but sometimes the response to our clients isn't as prompt as we'd like."
"This product would be improved with Support Services for more production access."
"Improvements in Oracle Database could focus on simplifying deployment processes and providing clearer documentation."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Oracle Database is ranked 2nd in Relational Databases Tools with 283 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database writes "Supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, MariaDB, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas Oracle Database is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, MariaDB, IBM Db2 Database and MySQL. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Oracle Database report.
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