We performed a comparison between Google Cloud SQL 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."It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."
"When we want more information on something that we are using, it is easy to find related topics on the internet."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The customer support should be improved."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"The most vulnerable problem with Google SQL is that while you can customize your access control list, it provides you with a public IP address."
"The most challenging part is dealing with legacy data from your old systems and migrating it into the new setup, but once you've completed the data migration, it becomes quite convenient to use."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"It is very hard to support Oracle Database."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
"There is room for improvement in PL/SQL. It is not user-friendly and it is hard to understand."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"The initial setup is complex. This is not a really easy solution. It is very large, so it's hard to install, but it's not impossible."
"Debugging this solution is challenging."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"The price of the solution is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the price of the solution should be lowered."
Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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