We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, and Oracle Database as a Service 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."The product's installation phase is easy."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"Amazon RDS is 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."
"The valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"I found its storage and security to be the most valuable. It was a good experience. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is perfect."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"It's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"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 DBaaS performs well. It's similar to the MS Store."
"The initial setup is not too difficult, and on a scale from one to ten with one being the most difficult and ten being the easiest, I'd rate it at eight. The initial deployment can be done in an hour."
"Not only does it provide a mature, reliable solution for DR. It also helps if application owners need to look into data which is a couple of hours old, using Flashback Database on the standby database."
"I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten because the stability and performance are good and the solution does not need to be maintained a lot."
"It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"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."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"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."
"To create a seamless data integration, the title integration of these databases with the data integration platforms is essential. This is what we would like to have in a future release."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"The customer support should be improved."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"I have had a hard time finding some documentation. There should provide easier accessible documentation for Oracle Database as a Service."
"On the cloud services, they need to improve some console-level items, including the logging of the databases on the console level."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"The solution’s price could be reduced."
"The product is very expensive."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
