We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Database as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the free tools provided to make the solution more secure."
"Oracle is the best database in the world."
"Oracle DBaaS performs well. It's similar to the MS Store."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is its use as a provisioning database."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"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."
"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."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"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."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"I would like to see a better dashboard for the storage. It need to be more complete overall."
"Oracle DBaaS could be compatible with more platforms."
"I would like the tool to improve the setup because it is complex."
"The initial setup could improve."
"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."
"The ROI has not been good."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with SQL Azure, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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