We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS 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."The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"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."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"The solution's customer service is excellent."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the general database system resilience and security."
"I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."
"It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks."
"The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy."
"The functionality is good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is its use as a provisioning database."
"What I like about Oracle Database as a Service is that it has excellent stability, and the development is effortless. I also like the enhanced queries in Oracle Database as a Service best."
"We are using Oracle Database as a Service mainly for pulling out audit reports."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"The product should support new databases."
"The security features could be improved."
"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing and stability."
"The direct scaling is a feature that has room for improvement. I would like to see virtual management machines that can scale storage well with zero downtime. The backup option and patching would then be much easier to do."
"They should add more integration to the solution."
"The solution can be improved by reducing the pricing, making the deployment less complex, and increasing security."
"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."
"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 the performance when monitoring."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Database as a Service is ranked 4th in Database as a Service with 63 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Database as a Service is rated 8.6. 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 Database as a Service writes "Quite stable and renewable with an easy setup". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas Oracle Database as a Service is most compared with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Database as a Service report.
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