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."Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"The product is very, very easy to use."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it requires an easy setup phase, and it is also easy to use while not being too heavy on its users."
"The customer service for this solution is very good. I would rate them a nine out of ten."
"The functionality is good."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are configuration and troubleshooting."
"We value the single data run that the solution provides."
"You can be up and running the same day."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the object types. The object types are not available in other databases, such as SQL and Postgres. Additionally, the security is very good."
"If the solution is installed in your environment correctly, you are not going to have any issues whatsoever. It's problem-free."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"The product should support new databases."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
"It is very hard to support Oracle Database."
"The initial setup could improve."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"I would like to improve the stability of the Oracle database."
"The performance needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement in PL/SQL. It is not user-friendly and it is hard to understand."
"When migrating to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost."
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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