We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and IBM Db2 on Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"The security features could be improved."
"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."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0. 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 IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure and Oracle Database as a Service, whereas IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with SQL Azure and Google Cloud SQL.
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