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 solution's customer service is excellent."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten because the stability and performance are good and the solution does not need to be maintained a lot."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"Not only does it provide a mature, reliable solution for DR. It also helps if application owners need to look into data which is a couple of hours old, using Flashback Database on the standby database."
"I like the solution's performance and ease of development."
"The Oracle Multitenant feature of 12c is awesome. This feature enables us to consolidate disparate databases under one container database and eases manageability of the databases. It also allows us to scale."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The functionality is good."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The product should support new databases."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."
"Its application development could be enhanced to fully utilize its features."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of flexibility."
"Oracle Database as a Service's initial setup was very complex."
"The solution uses a large amount of CPU space, which could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex. This is not a really easy solution. It is very large, so it's hard to install, but it's not impossible."
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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