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Amazon RDS vs Exasol Data Warehouse comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (2nd)
Exasol Data Warehouse
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
36th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Exasol Data Warehouse is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon RDS1.4%
Exasol Data Warehouse1.4%
Other97.2%
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Featured Reviews

Donny Trijatmiko - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at MyRobin.ID
Managed databases have simplified recovery and high availability for AI recruitment workloads
The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable and useful so far are its fully managed service, point-in-time restore, and other serverless features such as snapshots and backups, which have eased my job to manage databases. The automated backups of Amazon RDS help in data recovery by mitigating disaster recovery. I can revert to the nearest time if there is any data corruption or other issues, and this helps tremendously. I assess Amazon RDS's read replica feature for improving application performance as good. For standby nodes in Amazon RDS, I am using them for high failover, and so far it has been performing well. I have used Amazon RDS's Multi-AZ deployments, and it helps enhance data availability by providing high failover. It enhances high availability for my application as well.
Shubham-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Projects at Cognizant
Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data
There are very few companies that are using Exasol, but the majority of companies are using SQL Server, Cloud or IBM Db2 Database, or any other databases. Therefore, the resources are limited, which is my only concern. So if I face any issues, limited resources are available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol. From that perspective, it can be a bit of a struggle for me to find a solution. In the next release, I would like to see better compatibility issues. Currently, Exasol has limited compatibility with other software like Python and R. For example, If I talk about SQL Server, we can connect it to big data or Python, which is also compatible with different servers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"Some thing which would have costed millions of dollars and nine DBAs could easily be replaced by Amazon RDS."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The product's initial setup phase is totally easy."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible, and it's a secure solution."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"This solution is extremely fast and very stable; you set it up and put your data on it and as long as it's structured, it self-tunes queries and doesn't require a database administrator."
"It is easy to scale."
"Its speed is great."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
 

Cons

"I think Amazon RDS can be improved or enhanced if it can be implemented with other monitoring tools such as Percona."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"The performance is not always as good as MySQL running on its own EC2 instance."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"There are some use cases that might come up where we would want to understand the performance aspects better."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"When we depend on the AWS technical team, we need to pay more. For tech support, they are charging about 25% of the actual bill, which is too high for me."
"User interface needs improvement for using IPS and CloudWatch to scale and utilize read replicas, enabling performance insights to view query formats where the bottlenecks occur, identifying the fixes, slow queries, and missing indexes, improving the security and monitoring with alerts."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"The price is quite expensive relative to other similar solutions, it could be more accessible in that sense."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing could be cheaper."
"The solution is expensive."
"We are paying for a service license."
"Amazon RDS is not a very expensive solution."
"The pricing of RDS is a little bit high compared to Microsoft... However, it is a good price compared to other solutions."
"Amazon RDS is less expensive than other solutions."
"The substantial initial credit and cost-effectiveness make Amazon an attractive option."
"The prices for different regions are different."
"The solution's cost is mid-ranged."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
7%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
11%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise24
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?
I think Amazon RDS can be improved or enhanced if it can be implemented with other monitoring tools such as Percona. Currently, I am trying to add Percona monitoring for monitoring in addition to i...
What is your primary use case for Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS is typically used for AI applications. I am developing it for an AI recruitment agent and for collecting data for HRIS, Software as a Service for a workforce as a service, and storing data.
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