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We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle Database as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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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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  • "It is expensive."
  • "Google Cloud Spanner is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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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
    Top Answer:I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data… more »
    Top Answer:I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to… more »
    Top Answer:Google Cloud Spanner has all the features of a traditional relational database, including schemas, SQL queries, ACID… more »
    Top Answer:The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery.
    Top Answer:It is notably expensive when compared to the features offered by other alternatives. However, Oracle offers specific and… more »
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    Also Known As
    RDS
    Google Spanner
    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.

    Cloud Spanner is the first and only relational database service that is both strongly consistent and horizontally scalable. With Cloud Spanner you enjoy all the traditional benefits of a relational database: ACID transactions, relational schemas (and schema changes without downtime), SQL queries, high performance, and high availability. But unlike any other relational database service, Cloud Spanner scales horizontally, to hundreds or thousands of servers, so it can handle the highest of transactional workloads. With automatic scaling, synchronous data replication, and node redundancy, Cloud Spanner delivers up to 99.999% (five 9s) of availability for your mission critical applications. In fact, Google’s internal Spanner service has been handling millions of queries per second from many Google services for years.

    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.

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Retailer11%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company26%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government7%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise72%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise72%
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