We compared Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora, Oracle Database is praised for its advanced analytics capabilities, seamless integration, and efficient data management, despite complex setup costs and higher pricing. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora is commended for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, and user-friendly interface, with varying feedback on pricing and setup. Both databases receive positive reviews for customer service and support, with suggestions for improvements in functionality and user experience.
Features: Oracle Database is known for its excellent performance, high scalability, advanced analytics capabilities, efficient data management, and seamless integration. In contrast, Amazon Aurora stands out for its seamless scalability, excellent performance, easy-to-use interface, and user-friendly management options.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost for Oracle Database is considered high, but justifiable due to its advanced features. Expert assistance is often required, making it complex and time-consuming. Amazon Aurora offers no upfront setup costs, making implementation easy. However, licensing terms for both products can vary and be challenging to navigate., Users have reported highly favorable ROI with Oracle Database, praising its ability to streamline operations, enhance security, improve data management, increase scalability, and boost productivity. Amazon Aurora also showed positive and valuable ROI.
Room for Improvement: Oracle Database could benefit from improvements in performance optimization, enhanced documentation and support resources, simplified installation processes, and more intuitive user interfaces. In contrast, Amazon Aurora needs enhancements in performance, scalability, backup and restoration processes, user interface, and pricing structure.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews comparing Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora indicate that the duration required for establishing a new tech solution can vary. Some users mentioned a longer timeframe for Oracle Database, with multiple phases involved, while the feedback for Amazon Aurora suggests varying durations for deployment and setup, depending on the context., Oracle Database's customer service is praised for its promptness and efficiency, as well as their knowledgeable and helpful support team. Users appreciate the clear and concise communication provided. On the other hand, Amazon Aurora's customer service has been positively received for its prompt and helpful assistance, efficient support staff, and positive user reviews.
The summary above is based on 31 interviews we conducted recently with Oracle Database and Amazon Aurora users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to do multiple-read and single-write. These are the kinds of features that we were interested in, and Aurora takes care of that natively."
"Aurora's compatibility with MySQL or PostgreSQL benefited our database management. The migration from on-premise MySQL to Aurora was similar, so we didn't need to change our source code."
"We had better control over the parameters that we could tweak in terms of intermediate storage and better indexing capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is that the maintainability is offloaded to the service provider. I don't have to maintain a database or do any administrative tasks, which comes in handy."
"The solution’s scalability is good since we don’t need to take a maintenance window during unpredictable workloads. I like the solution’s behind-the-scenes happenings. It is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon Aurora is SQL standardization, it doesn't have its own syntax which is good. It has a lot of hands-off self-management type of activities, such as log rolling and auto-scaling."
"The provision of custom read and write endpoints eliminates the need for managing a separate proxy load balancer."
"The Data Redaction feature is easy to use and we are quite happy with it."
"It's powerful and fast, and the backup system is wonderful."
"It is a mature product. It is pretty stable. I've got a lot of experience with it, so it is pretty easy to use."
"The database is very secure, robust, and scalable. It has all the features that you need, such as disaster recovery, replication, backup, etc. It comes with all the features."
"They continue to improve and are always introducing new features."
"It's very reliable."
"The tool supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases we've used. One feature that had a significant impact is Oracle Data Integrator. It allows us to transfer data from the enterprise database to the data warehouse. This is useful for creating different data sets for finance teams and other departments."
"Oracle Database is very stable. In terms of stability and performance, Oracle is super. On the database side, Oracle is number one in our tests."
"I would like to see more AI-related features in future releases."
"The pricing could improve. It should be reduced."
"It is a bit costly. The features are quite good, and I wouldn't say it requires any technical improvements. But from a cost perspective, some clients wouldn't go for Aurora because of that."
"The product's distributed query process for MySQL needs improvement."
"It would have been helpful if they had provided some benchmarking numbers."
"There is improvement needed to have more developer focus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have a stand-alone solution outside of Amazon. Amazon has a tendency to favor developing web-based clients, which may not always provide the fastest or most responsive solution as desired."
"I would like to see performance insights on the database based on the queries. Currently, we use SolarWinds as the monitoring tool. I would like to leverage SolarWinds’ performance insights in AWS services. SolarWinds gives larger insights when we run performance issues."
"We don't really find that any features are lacking."
"Their support portal requires a person to become well-trained in how to use it. They are pretty good at handling absolute critical emergencies, but with the exception of absolute critical emergencies, getting problems solved from their support system is difficult and takes a long time."
"It should have more monitoring features. There should be features to be able to analyze the performance with a query. In Microsoft SQL Server, when you are running any stored procedure, if you want to analyze the performance, you just run the query analyzer. You can easily find out that something is missing in a joint condition, or clustering needs to be added because of a delay. I can't find such features in Oracle Database. They should be added."
"Probably about 80% of their online documentation is useless. When you go to the Oracle documentation, you have to plow through page after page of stuff to get to anything that looks anything like an example of what it is that you might actually do. There are lots of other people who have filled that gap, and there are also websites where you can easily find the answers to most of your questions."
"It needs to be more stable, as recently we have experienced some issues."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The price of the Oracle Database should be cheaper."
"Their support and price could both be improved."
Amazon Aurora is ranked 11th in Relational Databases Tools with 7 reviews while Oracle Database is ranked 2nd in Relational Databases Tools with 282 reviews. Amazon Aurora is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Aurora writes "Easy-to-manage platform with a valuable auto-scaling feature ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database writes "Supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases". Amazon Aurora is most compared with SQL Server, MariaDB, CockroachDB, MySQL and SAP HANA, whereas Oracle Database is most compared with SAP HANA, SQL Server, MariaDB, IBM Db2 Database and MySQL. See our Amazon Aurora vs. Oracle Database report.
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