We compared Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora, Oracle Database is praised for its advanced analytics capabilities, seamless integration, and efficient data management, despite complex setup costs and higher pricing. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora is commended for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, and user-friendly interface, with varying feedback on pricing and setup. Both databases receive positive reviews for customer service and support, with suggestions for improvements in functionality and user experience.
Features: Oracle Database is known for its excellent performance, high scalability, advanced analytics capabilities, efficient data management, and seamless integration. In contrast, Amazon Aurora stands out for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, easy-to-use interface, and user-friendly management options.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Oracle Database is considered high, but justifiable due to its advanced features. Expert assistance is often required, making it complex and time-consuming. Amazon Aurora offers no upfront setup costs, making implementation easy. However, licensing terms for both products can vary and be challenging to navigate., Users have reported highly favorable ROI with Oracle Database, praising its ability to streamline operations, enhance security, improve data management, increase scalability, and boost productivity. Amazon Aurora also showed positive and valuable ROI.
Room for Improvement: Oracle Database could benefit from improvements in performance optimization, enhanced documentation and support resources, simplified installation processes, and more intuitive user interfaces. In contrast, Amazon Aurora needs enhancements in performance, scalability, backup and restoration processes, user interface, and pricing structure.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora indicate that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can vary. Some users mentioned a longer timeframe for Oracle Database, with multiple phases involved, while the feedback for Amazon Aurora suggests varying durations for deployment and setup, depending on the context., Oracle Database's customer service is praised for its promptness and efficiency, as well as their knowledgeable and helpful support team. Users appreciate the clear and concise communication provided. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora's customer service has been positively received for its prompt and helpful assistance, efficient support staff, and positive user reviews.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"A scalable solution with straightforward initial setup."
"In general, the product is strong enough and offers high performance."
"It is reliable. It's very stable."
"Performance is the best key value. Oracle provides Exadata, the engineered system designed for Oracle Database, where you can achieve maximum performance."
"Oracle Database is easy to use."
"Its performance is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"I like the query part and the optimization of the query to get the data. I also like its speedy recovery and stability. In the security part, the loss of data is minimal for any crashes that could happen. First of all, it might not occur, or if it happens, the recovery of the data is smoother than others."
"The autonomous database simplifies everything."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"There is a lot that can improve in Oracle Database. For example, it could be more user-friendly and should be easier to integrate into the cloud."
"It could be slightly more intuitive, but other than that, we really like it as a solution."
"The solution can be quite expensive."
"Auditing could be improved, especially granular auditing. The unified audit trail in 12c is great, however its extraction in a highly busy environment is quite a challenge."
"They could improve the storage and network overhead."
"The quality of technical support could be better. They could respond faster."
"Oracle could improve by providing better integration with other solutions, such as Angular platforms."
"Oracle could improve the finance system."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Oracle Database is ranked 2nd in Relational Databases Tools with 282 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database writes "Supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, MariaDB, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas Oracle Database is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, MariaDB, IBM Db2 Database and MySQL. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Oracle Database report.
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