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Amazon RDS vs Heavy.AI comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (2nd)
Heavy.AI
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
23rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 1.4%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Heavy.AI is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon RDS1.4%
Heavy.AI0.8%
Other97.8%
Relational Databases Tools
 

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.
reviewer2886843 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Cloud Gb Strat High Technology Enterprise Account Executive at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Interactive analytics has revealed territory gaps and now needs simpler, more conversational guidance
I think whenever you're using these tools, you want it to be as conversational as possible, and I think more of that would be helpful for Heavy.AI. Allowing you to ask questions on how to do things inside of Heavy.AI and have it actually show you how to do it as you're doing it would be beneficial. That way you don't have to spend a lot of time trying things out through trial and error. Trial and error can be helpful because you're learning it that way, but at the same time, when you're just trying to do things quickly and you're not a professional or a user that uses it all the time, you might not have that. So you want to be able to get that information quickly and easily. Some aspects I didn't like, but some of it's just like, "of course not." I wish I could snap my fingers and have everything be perfect, but that's not realistic. The infrastructure is probably fairly expensive. I can't afford to do that. I would need my business, the company that I work for to do it for us. Otherwise I can't really do it. It's just expensive. I did feel that it was pretty easy to use, but I'm a little bit more experienced than the average person, so maybe someone less technical like my colleagues would struggle initially to figure it out. I think maybe enhancing the user-friendliness for people that are not coders, just kind of setting up the workflows and things so it's just easier would help. It seems to be more purpose-built for spatial stuff, for location plus time and things, but general purpose BI is kind of an important thing. I don't think people were actually taking advantage of that, and when they're not doing that, it creates a little bit of trouble.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The scalability is the best, and I have no issues with the ability to scale."
"The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The impact of Amazon RDS scalability and backup has been positive, with good vertical scaling, scale up and down, horizontal scaling, and storage scaling."
"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."
"It handles large-scale data migrations perfectly. Amazon RDS's performance is quite good. Charges are incurred after you utilize the service"
"Heavy.AI being able to do these things without having that background was powerful for me."
"We did see a saving of time and cost because we had a one-stop shop where we could access GPU utilization along with plotting of geographical data."
"Heavy.AI has helped reduce handling times and improved agent performance significantly."
 

Cons

"Amazon RDS could improve by having more sophisticated. I use other solutions that have better technology for more difficult tasks."
"Migration to RDS using the default tools is very complicated."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"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."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"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."
"Heavy.AI can be improved in agility to connect with multiple verticals, which is the first area, and the second is to analyze the business processes to prepare solutions for many verticals, as we approach this on a vertical basis."
"My experience with that was expensive to do for myself, so I had to get the company to sort of allow me to do it for Heavy.AI."
"Heavy.AI can be improved since it is a very large and comprehensive tool. For someone who does not have expertise in the tool, they will struggle somewhat, so I think it could be made easier for people."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing needs improvement."
"The prices for different regions are different."
"The pricing of RDS is a little bit high compared to Microsoft... However, it is a good price compared to other solutions."
"The cost depends on the kind of instance we use."
"We are paying for a service license."
"It is less expensive than SQL Server. We pay based on the usage on a monthly basis."
"In my case, MySQL is free, and if there are any costs, then it is much less than other solutions since all such things usually come bundled with the hardware."
"if you don't know how to optimize and use your tool properly, the cost might hurt you."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
29%
Insurance Company
16%
Healthcare Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

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 Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
 

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.
What needs improvement with Heavy.AI?
I think whenever you're using these tools, you want it to be as conversational as possible, and I think more of that would be helpful for Heavy.AI. Allowing you to ask questions on how to do things...
What is your primary use case for Heavy.AI?
I was trying to get an idea of where some of the gaps were in my business specifically, where I should target my efforts using Heavy.AI for interactive analytics or graphics. I was trying to levera...
What advice do you have for others considering Heavy.AI?
I can compare Heavy.AI to some other things, and I was getting things that felt real. I was getting very good accuracy with it. It's hard to know exactly what is and what isn't accurate, but if som...
 

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