We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Database as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence."
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"We value the single data run that the solution provides."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into other Oracle applications."
"What I found most valuable about Oracle Database as a Service is its fast transactions and materialized views."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"The solution is very stable. It's very powerful."
"The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security."
"The solution is stable."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"Technical support could be better."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"The security features could be improved."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."
"My favorite option – Multitenant – should be available for some pluggable databases in all editions, without any fee."
"There is room for improvement in the speed of the data migration process."
"Debugging this solution is challenging."
"Documentation is difficult to find. Since we're experienced with Oracle technology, we have also found many errors in it. Not everything is 100% accurate."
"The interface can be difficult and there may be so many features that users and even vendors are unaware that they exist."
"The direct scaling is a feature that has room for improvement. I would like to see virtual management machines that can scale storage well with zero downtime. The backup option and patching would then be much easier to do."
"I have had a hard time finding some documentation. There should provide easier accessible documentation for Oracle Database as a Service."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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