We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Express Cloud 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."Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The provisioning is much faster. You don't have to prepare hardware or install software. You just need to create an instance and you have a database."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"Having the prediction happen in the modular format allows you to start with a lower version of Exadata and then you can keep on upgrading it as per your requirement."
"I like that Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is easier to use and is a cost-saving solution because you won't need to hire people to run and maintain it."
"In the cloud, Exadata is more scalable. The on-prem version was limited. It wasn't that scalable because it only came in a quarter rack, half rack, and full rack. In the cloud, it scales to what you need."
"It is a scalable product."
"One of the most valuable parts of the solution is the high availability within the system and the performance enhancement without making any changes or fine-tuning the databases."
"The solution is very stable and offers great performance."
"The performance of the tool is valuable."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"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."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"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 solution's pricing could be improved."
"The product's installation process needs improvement. It could be more accessible."
"The support must be faster."
"We use artificial intelligence for deep learning, and it would be a huge benefit to implement this in Oracle Exadata."
"Scaling Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service can be done, but the process is a little tedious, which could be an area for improvement in the solution."
"The only downside is the difficulty in monitoring, and that's why I would like to implement MySQL database."
"The customer's default choice is the on-premise version of this solution. Only when Oracle or the partners like us, can explain to customers the cloud value proposition, and if the compliance authorities allow, they can look into this cloud solution. It will take some time for Oracle to change its perception of customers' de-facto standards. Exadata used to be treated as a black box, which is not the case now. The customer is aware of what is happening inside, how the configurations have been made, and what patching has been applied. Oracle needs to market the cloud version better."
"Oracle's support could be better."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is ranked 10th in Database as a Service with 9 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is rated 7.4. 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 Exadata Express Cloud Service writes "Enhances performance without fine tuning databases". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Exadata and Redis. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service report.
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