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 valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"It is a product brought to you by a company that concentrates only on database solutions, so it is the best at what it does."
"We value the single data run that the solution provides."
"It is very easy to use."
"One of the key features is Oracle Database as a Service. We chose to implement it as a service, which provides good performance, for example. Flexibility and other features let us implement database research with the SQL team range of features also."
"We are using Oracle Database as a Service mainly for pulling out audit reports."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"As a database administrator, it has a lot of features to help you manage the database and the backup."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"The most vulnerable problem with Google SQL is that while you can customize your access control list, it provides you with a public IP address."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The customer support should be improved."
"Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
"Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
"Some bugs could be fixed. There have been some internal software bugs, just like any other newly released software. These bugs gets fixed by patch updates from Oracle on regular basis."
"Its application development could be enhanced to fully utilize its features."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing and stability."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
"The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
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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