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."Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The solution is very stable. It's very powerful."
"I like the solution’s performance and real application concepts."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the ease of use. We can use a simple syntax to get data and we can easily go to procedures to see data other than using a query."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."
"The functionality is good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the object types. The object types are not available in other databases, such as SQL and Postgres. Additionally, the security is very good."
"If the solution is installed in your environment correctly, you are not going to have any issues whatsoever. It's problem-free."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"You can only get access from the sales support. That means if you want to buy something or renew your subscription or upgrade, all these services are easily available. Yet, if you would like to get some technical support, you have to pay for it. You have to pay for an additional subscription."
"The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."
"Oracle Database as a Service's initial setup was very complex."
"Oracle Database as a Service is very convenient to use. However, we need to know to which schema we want it to connect specifically, and what are the username and password. The solution requires some basic knowledge of SQL RP and SQL Oracle to use it."
"I would like the tool to improve the setup because it is complex."
"I would like to see improvements in the license cost. The solution is subscription-based for PaaS services. You need to buy your own authorized license."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"The installation process requires improvement as it can be quite complex."
"Some bugs could be fixed. There have been some internal software bugs, just like any other newly released software. These bugs gets fixed by patch updates from Oracle on regular basis."
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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