We performed a comparison between Amazon Aurora and Oracle MySQL Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 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."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"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."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"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."
"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."
"The access to a suite of management and administration tools that simplify tasks such as database provisioning, configuration, and monitoring."
"The scalability of the database is absolutely guaranteed by the new features."
"The product is good for tuning."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"MySQL is a centralized RDBMS in itself, and you don't have the overkill of having the full Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server. It's ideal, and it helps with the developer console. It has three versions for developers. It's a very good tool for open source."
"The most valuable feature is the data aggregation function."
"The solution's performance is good."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"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."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"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."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"Sometimes, we face syntax issues with the solution."
"Sometimes MySQL does upgrades on the server. When we are still using the old server and when they integrate the upgrade, they don't carry along some of the old syntaxes. The versions don't sync."
"Oracle MySQL Cloud Service's scalability is an area of concern that can be better."
"In a production environment, upgrading from a lower to an upper version is a very long process that needs to be improved."
"The support is not that great. They're not really supporting directly anymore and relying on experts to figure out technical issues."
"It requires a significant amount of expertise and effort to manage, especially when dealing with substantial volumes of data."
"The solution should offer memory management."
"Integrating business intelligence or NLP solutions would help us save time and would prevent us from having to take a deep dive. Data problems seem to multiply on the system when you interact with it. Automation would save a lot of man-hours."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 16 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is rated 8.2. 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 MySQL Cloud Service writes "A stable solution that can be used to perform on-premises to cloud migrations". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, MariaDB, CockroachDB and Teradata, whereas Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is most compared with MySQL, Firebird SQL, Percona Server and PostgreSQL. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Oracle MySQL Cloud Service report.
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