We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer 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 dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The operation model is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is that it is based on Exadata infrastructure, which is Oracle 's leading engineered system that is trusted, fault-tolerant, and has unique performance features."
"Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime."
"I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable."
"I am particularly fond of the intelligent capabilities that enhance the backend, utilizing technology to analyze SQL queries."
"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."
"The running cost could be improved."
"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."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited."
"As a customer, you can't see the boot messages of your virtualized guest machines."
"For the data migration, we used ZDM. It was not integrated with the databases, and the documentation lacks clarity."
"The solution is expensive."
"We had some problems in the developer's environment. We had some problems with the initial installation environment."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is ranked 9th in Database as a Service with 5 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata Cloud at Customer writes "Reduction in database creation time, provides good performance but challenges when interacting with the OCI console". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Yugabyte Platform, whereas Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is most compared with Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud SQL. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer report.
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