We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and SingleStore 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."Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"For me, RDS is a great solution. I like that Amazon RDS is a very simple solution to implement and to start using."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"The provisioning is much faster. You don't have to prepare hardware or install software. You just need to create an instance and you have a database."
"MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms."
"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, with no complex processes."
"It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"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."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"The product should support new databases."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"The product can be developed further to provide more appropriate output to users as it is one of the areas where there are shortcomings."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while SingleStore is ranked 6th in Database as a Service with 7 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while SingleStore is rated 8.8. 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 SingleStore writes "A reasonably priced product that offers good speed and seamless support". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and IBM Db2 on Cloud, whereas SingleStore is most compared with SQL Server, Teradata, MySQL, CockroachDB and InfluxDB. See our Amazon RDS vs. SingleStore report.
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