We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and SingleStore 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 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 provisioning is much faster. You don't have to prepare hardware or install software. You just need to create an instance and you have a database."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."
"It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, with no complex processes."
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms."
"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."
"The product should support new databases."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"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 product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"The product can be developed further to provide more appropriate output to users as it is one of the areas where there are shortcomings."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while SingleStore is ranked 6th in Database as a Service with 7 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while SingleStore is rated 8.8. 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 SingleStore writes "A reasonably priced product that offers good speed and seamless support". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and IBM Db2 on Cloud, whereas SingleStore is most compared with SQL Server, MySQL, Teradata, CockroachDB and Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop. See our Amazon RDS vs. SingleStore report.
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