We performed a comparison between Google Cloud SQL 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."It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"The valuable feature of Google Cloud SQL is its high availability option. The product is stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I found its storage and security to be the most valuable. It was a good experience. It is also very stable and scalable, and its support is perfect."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the object types. The object types are not available in other databases, such as SQL and Postgres. Additionally, the security is very good."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"We have the ability to build several solutions to according to the requirements of our users."
"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."
"We value the single data run that the solution provides."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"I like the solution's performance and ease of development."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"I am yet to explore a lot of features that are present in this solution. However, it would be good if more documentation is available for this solution. This would help us in preparing for the certification exam and understand it better. Currently, we don't have much documentation. We do the labs for 20 or 25 minutes, but we can't capture and download anything."
"The customer support should be improved."
"Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"To create a seamless data integration, the title integration of these databases with the data integration platforms is essential. This is what we would like to have in a future release."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"Debugging this solution is challenging."
"There is room for improvement in PL/SQL. It is not user-friendly and it is hard to understand."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in terms of flexibility."
"On the cloud services, they need to improve some console-level items, including the logging of the databases on the console level."
"Some bugs could be fixed. There have been some internal software bugs, just like any other newly released software. These bugs gets fixed by patch updates from Oracle on regular basis."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."
Google Cloud SQL is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 16 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Google Cloud SQL is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Google Cloud SQL writes "An easy-to-use solution with good features and functionality ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Google Cloud SQL is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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