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."
"What I like the most about Google Cloud SQL is that it handles the management, which allows us to concentrate on our applications."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"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 most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"It's a scalable product."
"My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high."
"I like the tool’s database services. I like the system’s performance, replication, active data, etc. which are all good."
"The solution is fast and easy."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"If the solution is installed in your environment correctly, you are not going to have any issues whatsoever. It's problem-free."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the ease of use. We can use a simple syntax to get data and we can easily go to procedures to see data other than using a query."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"The customer support should be improved."
"The most challenging part is dealing with legacy data from your old systems and migrating it into the new setup, but once you've completed the data migration, it becomes quite convenient to use."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"The purging of the data could be better."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"The most vulnerable problem with Google SQL is that while you can customize your access control list, it provides you with a public IP address."
"It would be better if we could have a little bit of automation or a chance for autoscaling with Oracle Database as a Service."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
"Documentation is difficult to find. Since we're experienced with Oracle technology, we have also found many errors in it. Not everything is 100% accurate."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"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."
"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
"The performance needs improvement."
Google Cloud SQL is ranked 5th in Database as a Service with 16 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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