We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer 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 is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"For me, RDS is a great solution. I like that Amazon RDS is a very simple solution to implement and to start using."
"I am particularly fond of the intelligent capabilities that enhance the backend, utilizing technology to analyze SQL queries."
"The operation model is the most valuable feature."
"Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime."
"The most valuable feature is that it is based on Exadata infrastructure, which is Oracle 's leading engineered system that is trusted, fault-tolerant, and has unique performance features."
"I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with Microsoft products. Our clients use the Microsoft Tally application server. We already tried to create a reputation from, for example, an on-premises environment from our client to Amazon RDS using Microsoft Tally server, and we couldn't do that because we didn't have a strong user in RDS. We couldn't create a reputation from an on-premises environment from the Microsoft Tally server to RDS. I think that it would be a good implementation, and it would help us with this case."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"Technical support could be better."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited."
"The solution is expensive."
"For the data migration, we used ZDM. It was not integrated with the databases, and the documentation lacks clarity."
"As a customer, you can't see the boot messages of your virtualized guest machines."
"We had some problems in the developer's environment. We had some problems with the initial installation environment."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is ranked 9th in Database as a Service with 5 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is rated 8.4. 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 Cloud at Customer writes "Reduction in database creation time, provides good performance but challenges when interacting with the OCI console". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Yugabyte Platform, whereas Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is most compared with Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud SQL. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer report.
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