We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Oracle Database as a Service, and SQL Azure 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 maintain and easy to deploy."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"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 Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"Data Guard is the best solution for Disaster Recovery."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the general database system resilience and security."
"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."
"I like the solution's performance and ease of development."
"The most valuable features of the solution are processing, indexing, monitoring, scalability, network, performance of the clustering, clusters, and availability."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the object types. The object types are not available in other databases, such as SQL and Postgres. Additionally, the security is very good."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"It is a product brought to you by a company that concentrates only on database solutions, so it is the best at what it does."
"The stability is good and the performance is fantastic. Even when we try to do an inquiry into issues we can do it easily."
"The most valuable features of SQL Azure are its reliability and quick scalability."
"SQL is a simpler database. We use it more than other databases."
"The solution is a fairly mature product. It provides good stability."
"The automated scalability feature of SQL Azure has proven to be highly beneficial, particularly when deployed in the cloud."
"The initial setup is very easy. It's extremely straightforward."
"It is easily scalable, and it is faster than SQL Server. It is also less expensive than using SQL Server. It has the pay-as-you-go model, and the charges are based on the usage."
"The ease of provisioning and administration is most valuable."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"The running cost could be improved."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"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."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."
"The product must improve its performance."
"Documentation is difficult to find. Since we're experienced with Oracle technology, we have also found many errors in it. Not everything is 100% accurate."
"The performance needs improvement."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"The initial setup could improve."
"The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."
"They should also simplify the security in Azure. We are using the cloud as a platform, so there is no physical infrastructure. We're using Azure components like databases and servers to create an application. Integrating those components in terms of permissions and security is challenging for us. Maybe there is a lack of knowledge on our side, but it's not straightforward."
"Although the solution integrates well into Azure’s ecosystem, it has limited capability and is incompatible with many third-party applications or tools."
"Some issues with scalability."
"The initial setup is complex."
"I need Microsoft to allow their network to access open source technologies."
"The solution’s visibility could be improved."
"The pricing plans when using multiple Microsoft solutions are complex and have room for improvement."
"If it's a transitional system, there is a lot of reporting, so the solution becomes a bit slow when it's churning out tons of data, but it's good for a mid-sized application"
