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."My suggestion to anyone thinking about this solution is to jump into it head-first!"
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use, simple, and user-friendly."
"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."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The implementation part of the product was easy."
"The setup was straightforward. Just a couple of clicks, and we were done."
"Oracle DBaaS performs well. It's similar to the MS Store."
"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."
"Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can make it onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is its use as a provisioning database."
"Oracle has helped our organization by being a reliable solution that is stable with zero crashes. The differentiation between Oracle's database and other databases is that Oracle needs more attention. It's not a click here, click there solution, it needs more time put in, but once you do that, it's ready to go and you can forget about it."
"The most valuable features of the solution are processing, indexing, monitoring, scalability, network, performance of the clustering, clusters, and availability."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"I would like to see better integration with all the different tools on the platform."
"The customer support should be improved."
"For data analysis, the AI area of the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"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."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"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."
"The product is very expensive."
"The ROI has not been good."
"I have had a hard time finding some documentation. There should provide easier accessible documentation for Oracle Database as a Service."
"The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
"The initial setup could improve."
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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