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 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."
"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 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 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 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."
"A very reliable solution."
"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."
"The performance and reliability are the best features of the Oracle Database."
"The solution has great security."
"RDBMS with good performance and technical support. It's a scalable, stable, secure, and easy to implement solution that can be deployed both on cloud and on-premises."
"It's very reliable."
"It's fast compared to other databases."
"What I like most is the real application security."
"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 would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"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."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"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 pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"It could be slightly more intuitive, but other than that, we really like it as a solution."
"The primary concern is that Oracle is highly restricted in terms of the approved technologies where we can freely deploy Oracle Database or any other Oracle product."
"The licensing formulation is too complicated."
"Upgrade is the most critical phase for the lifecycle of a database. In order to be sure that the migration succeeds, you need to be up-to-date. Therefore, regularly install the patchset and security updates."
"The solution can be quite expensive for small and medium-sized enterprises. Not too many companies can actually afford the pricing."
"If you just install a database, it's easy but if you install some other programs it can be a little bit longer and difficult to install."
"Oracle Database could be improved by adding more automation."
"If you want to scale, it will get even more expensive."
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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