We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle Database as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon, Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The product's installation phase is easy."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it requires an easy setup phase, and it is also easy to use while not being too heavy on its users."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability. Scalability comes with two options, among which Google Cloud Spanner can scale horizontally, compared to other relational databases that scale vertically."
"We have found all of the features of this solution to be valuable to our organization."
"Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can make it onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is that it is managed by the vendor and you do not have to purchase on-premise hardware."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are configuration and troubleshooting."
"Oracle has helped our organization by being a reliable solution that is stable with zero crashes. The differentiation between Oracle's database and other databases is that Oracle needs more attention. It's not a click here, click there solution, it needs more time put in, but once you do that, it's ready to go and you can forget about it."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood."
"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."
"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."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"The security features could be improved."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"Google came up with something called Cloud Spanner Emulator, which fails to work like the real product if I want to develop some code and run a database locally on my machine."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"Pricing for Oracle Database as a Service could be cheaper, so this is an area for improvement."
"On the cloud services, they need to improve some console-level items, including the logging of the databases on the console level."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"My favorite option – Multitenant – should be available for some pluggable databases in all editions, without any fee."
"The interface can be difficult and there may be so many features that users and even vendors are unaware that they exist."
"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 installation process requires improvement as it can be quite complex."
"I would like to see improvements in the license cost. The solution is subscription-based for PaaS services. You need to buy your own authorized license."