We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, 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."For me, RDS is a great solution. I like that Amazon RDS is a very simple solution to implement and to start using."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence."
"This is a stable solution and offers good performance."
"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's SQL. SQL is so easy if you know something about databases. It's easy to learn."
"Ease of management and the ability to oversee the statistics of your SQL."
"It supports different databases, like Postgres and MySQL."
"The solution is easy to use. I am impressed with the tool's features and functionality."
"Its most valuable feature is that it's scalable. I can start off with a base of a lot of data and move as much as I want and it's the same as if asked to do a lot of infrastructure changes."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is that it is managed by the vendor and you do not have to purchase on-premise hardware."
"It is a good solution and has a large community."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like the solution's performance and ease of development."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."
"The solution is quite stable and renewable."
"I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"Technical support could be better."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"The customer support should be improved."
"The only thing that could be better is the pricing."
"Google's technical support is good, but they tend to never reopen a case and to send us snippets from the publicly available documentation. It's not as helpful as you would expect, not just for Google Cloud SQL but for all of Google Cloud products."
"In the case of Google, they need to work on a more easy interface for users."
"The monitoring part could be better."
"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."
"It is hard to do logging with the solution."
"Google Cloud SQL still needs better connectivity to outside, existing data sources."
"Oracle Database as a Service's initial setup was very complex."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by reducing the price."
"The solution's pricing could be less expensive."
"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."
"Improvement in Oracle DBaaS could focus on enhancing performance monitoring and reporting tools."
"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 DBaaS could be compatible with more platforms."
