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."Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"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."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"The product is scalable."
"It is not the cool features that I find valuable, it is the stability of Google Cloud Platform."
"Google Cloud SQL enhances our AI-driven projects by providing features like query optimization and scalability for efficiently processing large datasets."
"It is a good solution and has a large community."
"You can be up and running the same day."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Improves client satisfaction by decreasing their problems."
"When we want more information on something that we are using, it is easy to find related topics on the internet."
"The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."
"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."
"The product's user interface could be more user-friendly to improve the overall user experience."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"The purging of the data 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."
"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 monitoring part could be better."
"I would like to see better availability of the product in different regions. It should also improve the security with encryption."
"It is very hard to support Oracle Database."
"Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved."
"For many companies, the standard version is not enough. They need to move to the enterprise version. However, there is a large price jump between the two."
"It doesn't have an in-built database load balancer."
"Oracle Database as a Service is difficult to set up. They should make it easier."
"The initial setup is complex. This is not a really easy solution. It is very large, so it's hard to install, but it's not impossible."
"Its application development could be enhanced to fully utilize its features."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 18 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th 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, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Google Cloud SQL vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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