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."I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"It makes it easy to administer the database. It helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, which reduce transaction time. It is highly available and durable which helps in disaster recovery and management."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The solution's customer service is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"What I found most valuable about Oracle Database as a Service is its fast transactions and materialized views."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution are processing, indexing, monitoring, scalability, network, performance of the clustering, clusters, and availability."
"I like the tool’s database services. I like the system’s performance, replication, active data, etc. which are all good."
"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."
"If the solution is installed in your environment correctly, you are not going to have any issues whatsoever. It's problem-free."
"The initial setup is not too difficult, and on a scale from one to ten with one being the most difficult and ten being the easiest, I'd rate it at eight. The initial deployment can be done in an hour."
"The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery."
"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."
"The security features could be improved."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"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."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."
"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."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the provisioning. You have to recreate on-premise hardware environments in the cloud, it was not very intuitive."
"The price of the solution is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the price of the solution should be lowered."
"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."
"The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them."
"There is room for improvement in PL/SQL. It is not user-friendly and it is hard to understand."
"My favorite option – Multitenant – should be available for some pluggable databases in all editions, without any fee."
"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."
"The solution uses a large amount of CPU space, which could be improved."
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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