We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer 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."Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable."
"Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime."
"The operation model is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it is based on Exadata infrastructure, which is Oracle 's leading engineered system that is trusted, fault-tolerant, and has unique performance features."
"I am particularly fond of the intelligent capabilities that enhance the backend, utilizing technology to analyze SQL queries."
"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."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"The solution is expensive."
"We had some problems in the developer's environment. We had some problems with the initial installation environment."
"For the data migration, we used ZDM. It was not integrated with the databases, and the documentation lacks clarity."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited."
"As a customer, you can't see the boot messages of your virtualized guest machines."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is ranked 9th in Database as a Service with 5 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata Cloud at Customer writes "Reduction in database creation time, provides good performance but challenges when interacting with the OCI console". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Yugabyte Platform, whereas Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is most compared with Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud SQL. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer report.
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