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."Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"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."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"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."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"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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