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"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."
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Top Answer: The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good.
Top Answer: The price could be better.
Top Answer: The price could be better. We have better options like Microsoft Azure to use in the cloud. I also don't think it's very scalable.
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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.
IBM Cloudant is a managed NoSQL JSON database service built to ensure that the flow of data between an application and its database remains uninterrupted and highly performant. Developers are then free to build more, grow more and sleep more.
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Amazon RDS is ranked 3rd in Database as a Service with 6 reviews while IBM Cloudant is ranked 11th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 7.6, while IBM Cloudant is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, reducing transaction time". On the other hand, Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, MongoDB Atlas and SQL Azure, whereas IBM Cloudant is most compared with MongoDB Atlas.
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