We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Oracle Database as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability. Scalability comes with two options, among which Google Cloud Spanner can scale horizontally, compared to other relational databases that scale vertically."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"In terms of features, I find Automated Storage Management (ASM) and Data Guard most helpful for improving data security and reliability."
"Not only does it provide a mature, reliable solution for DR. It also helps if application owners need to look into data which is a couple of hours old, using Flashback Database on the standby database."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."
"The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy."
"I would rate this solution as an eight out of ten because the stability and performance are good and the solution does not need to be maintained a lot."
"The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security."
"It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"Amazon RDS could improve by having more sophisticated. I use other solutions that have better technology for more difficult tasks."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"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."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"Google came up with something called Cloud Spanner Emulator, which fails to work like the real product if I want to develop some code and run a database locally on my machine."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"It is very hard to support Oracle Database."
"Oracle Database as a Service's initial setup was very complex."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring."
"For many companies, the standard version is not enough. They need to move to the enterprise version. However, there is a large price jump between the two."
"The ROI has not been good."
"It would be better if we could have a little bit of automation or a chance for autoscaling with Oracle Database as a Service."
"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."
"Oracle Database as a Service is very convenient to use. However, we need to know to which schema we want it to connect specifically, and what are the username and password. The solution requires some basic knowledge of SQL RP and SQL Oracle to use it."
