Amazon RDS vs IBM solidDB comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Relational Databases Tools category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while IBM is ranked #41. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 1.1% mindshare in SQL, compared to IBM’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon RDS

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100% willing to recommend

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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

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (2nd)

IBM solidDB

Ranking in Relational Databases Tools

41st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 1.1%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM solidDB is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Amazon RDS	1.1%
IBM solidDB	0.7%
Other	98.2%

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Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

Customer support and automated backups offer reliability while ease of deployment enhances user experience

The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, data warehousing and analytics, and software as a service platforms, along with dev testing environments, disaster recoveries, and backups. The mobile app backend and development environment is also the best feature for database management for my customers. Database management is effective in Amazon RDS because it offers automated backups, high availability, read replicas, and support from multiple database engineers, while also providing security, monitoring and metrics, scalability. We are using snapshots and database migrations as well as performance optimization. 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 performance was good and availability helped with reducing downtime.

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it_user722241

Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

No other solution came close to this product's speed and tech support is on a really high level

If you need local DB cache with extreme speed, then go for it, if you need something to work as a distributed cloud database, then solidDB would not be the right decision. With our Telco experience, we help with suggestions for new features and improvements of existing ones for new versions of solidDB. Also, in our labs, we do some pre-alpha testing to help them to complete some new features in the right way.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."

"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."

"Aurora, the RDS product, is excellent."

"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."

"Amazon RDS provides data encryption using services like KMS, crucial for securing high-sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements such as HIPAA or PCI DSS."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."

"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."

"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."

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"Memory cache DB and carrier grade high availability, best fit to Telco demands."

Cons

"The setup might be a bit challenging for multi-level applications."

"With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."

"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with Microsoft products."

"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."

"Some features are disabled, like running "alter system/database". There are Amazon alternatives, but it is not transparent to the application."

"The product should support new databases."

"For improvements, Amazon RDS could work on more features for multi-availability zone deployment to enhance higher availability, and on simplifying migration for those transitioning from on-premises to cloud environments."

"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2."

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"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 not a very expensive solution."

"The solution’s pricing could be cheaper."

"The substantial initial credit and cost-effectiveness make Amazon an attractive option."

"On a scale from one to ten, where ten is the most expensive, and one is the cheapest, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"Amazon RDS is an expensive solution."

"AWS is becoming pretty expensive because cheap or absolutely free services have become paid services. Amazon RDS is not an expensive product, but Amazon's ecosystem is becoming increasingly expensive."

"Amazon RDS could improve by reducing the price."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

University

Manufacturing Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	16
Large Enterprise	22

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon RDS?

The pricing for Amazon RDS is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?

Currently, I cannot think of any major improvements. Perhaps more platforms in terms of database engine versions would be beneficial. Right now, Amazon RDS supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, but there ...

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What is your primary use case for Amazon RDS?

I am a Solutions Architect, so I design solutions for our clients. Prior to this role, I was an implementation engineer, so I also implement solutions for our customers.

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Also Known As

RDS

solidDB

Overview

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

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IBM solidDB is a relational database server that combines the high performance of in-memory tables with the nearly unlimited capacity of disk-based tables.

Pure in-memory databases are fast, but strictly limited by the size of memory. Pure disk-based databases allow nearly unlimited amounts of storage, but their performance is dominated by disk access. Even if the computer has enough memory to store the entire database in memory buffers, database servers that are designed for disk-based tables can be slow because the data structures that are optimal for disk-based tables are far from being optimal for in-memory tables. The solidDB solution is to provide a single hybrid database server that contains two optimized engines inside it:

The main-memory engine (MME) is optimized for in-memory access.
The disk-based engine (DBE) is optimized for disk-based access.

Both engines coexist inside the same server process, and a single SQL statement can access data from both engines.

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