We performed a comparison between Google Cloud SQL 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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"It's a scalable product."
"The scalability and high availability are the most valuable features of Oracle DaaS."
"Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can make it onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy."
"The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery."
"The solution is quite stable and renewable."
"The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security."
"It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks."
"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."
"I am yet to explore a lot of features that are present in this solution. However, it would be good if more documentation is available for this solution. This would help us in preparing for the certification exam and understand it better. Currently, we don't have much documentation. We do the labs for 20 or 25 minutes, but we can't capture and download anything."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"The most challenging part is dealing with legacy data from your old systems and migrating it into the new setup, but once you've completed the data migration, it becomes quite convenient to use."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."
"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"There is room for improvement in PL/SQL. It is not user-friendly and it is hard to understand."
"The product is very expensive."
"The solution uses a large amount of CPU space, which could be improved."
Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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