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April 2024
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Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty
Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features
We used to have a separate database. We managed everything, including scaling. We faced memory issues when there were too many hits, so we manually... Read more →
BaidyTHIONGANE
Researched Amazon RDS but chose Oracle Database as a Service: Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup
Saurabh Chandratre
With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange...
The projects that I have delivered on vCloud Air have definitely helped clients in having a full DR solution in cloud, for their head office as... Read more →
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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "By using a combination of Reserve Instances and On-Demand pricing, you can reduce the cost."
  • "The cost of using this solution is similar to that of having your own data center."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "It is less expensive than SQL Server. We pay based on the usage on a monthly basis."
  • "We are paying for a service license."
  • "Licensing fees are paid on an annual basis."
  • "if you don't know how to optimize and use your tool properly, the cost might hurt you."
  • "Amazon RDS could improve by reducing the price."

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  • "The licensing is a nightmare. Tons of options which need to be licensed individually, and no real offering for VMware or other Hypervisors."
  • "There should be a standard way to license the database in a virtual environment (e.g. VMware) and there should be a low-end version (like Standard Edition One) again."
  • "The price depends on the solution you choose: standard, enterprise, or high performance. For example, enterprise can start between 0.4 an hour up to 1,800. Additional fees also depends on what package you choose. Your feels will be different if you choose the standard, enterprise, high performance, or extreme package. You will pay in relation to what option you ask for. The price is very good if you compare it to other databases."
  • "The pricing may seem expensive, but the value corresponds to the quality of the product."
  • "The pricing is a little bit expensive."
  • "The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."
  • "I do not know firsthand about the price of Oracle Database as a Service, but it is known that Oracle solutions tend to be priced higher than competitors."
  • "For on-premises, a perpetual license is a standard $17,500 plus 22% for one year of support."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Amazon RDS?
    Top Answer:The product's installation phase is easy.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon RDS?
    Top Answer:The product is expensive. If Cisco needs two servers, Amazon uses four.
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    What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?
    Top Answer:The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required.
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    What do you like most about Oracle Database as a Service?
    Top Answer:It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and… more »
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database a...
    Top Answer:It is an expensive product. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.
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    What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?
    Top Answer:Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools. A more streamlined… more »
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    1st
    out of 23 in Database as a Service
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    9,454
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    Comparisons
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    Also Known As
    RDS
    Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud
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    Overview

    Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

    Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases.

    vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer7%
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Comms Service Provider12%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business31%
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    Large Enterprise45%
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