We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS, Oracle Database as a Service, and SQL Azure 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."It makes it easy to administer the database. It helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, which reduce transaction time. It is highly available and durable which helps in disaster recovery and management."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"Oracle DBaaS performs well. It's similar to the MS Store."
"The initial setup is not too difficult, and on a scale from one to ten with one being the most difficult and ten being the easiest, I'd rate it at eight. The initial deployment can be done in an hour."
"It is very easy to use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its security, performance, and availability."
"The solution is scalable, has support & right incident, and allows easy data recovery."
"It is a product brought to you by a company that concentrates only on database solutions, so it is the best at what it does."
"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."
"Oracle Database as a Service is stable."
"One of the most valuable aspects is its seamless integration with Azure Data Factory."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that our customers do not have to manage the solution."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Azure is the user-friendly VMs."
"The most valuable aspect of SQL Azure is the SQL language itself. It's open and everybody can use it at my company. Also, we thought in the beginning that the response time would be inadequate, but it's actually decent. It's much better than expected. Then again, I'm not a programmer, but that's what I hear from our development team."
"What I like the most is the processes and the easiness of deployments."
"Its easy usage is the most valuable."
"The best thing about the solution is that it is tightly integrated with Azure Functions and Azure App Service, making it easy to deploy to the cloud."
"This solution provides more comfort to the end-user compared to a normal SQL server."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with Microsoft products. Our clients use the Microsoft Tally application server. We already tried to create a reputation from, for example, an on-premises environment from our client to Amazon RDS using Microsoft Tally server, and we couldn't do that because we didn't have a strong user in RDS. We couldn't create a reputation from an on-premises environment from the Microsoft Tally server to RDS. I think that it would be a good implementation, and it would help us with this case."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"The running cost could be improved."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."
"The solution provides the same type of RDBMS engine for all use cases. They need to provide different products that will be suitable for all use cases. The solution does not support the documentation of databases."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"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 product is very expensive."
"I have had a hard time finding some documentation. There should provide easier accessible documentation for Oracle Database as a Service."
"I would like to see a better dashboard for the storage. It need to be more complete overall."
"In the next release, I would like to see a framework for memory management."
"The interface can be difficult and there may be so many features that users and even vendors are unaware that they exist."
"It's a little bit limited in terms of functionality."
"If it's a transitional system, there is a lot of reporting, so the solution becomes a bit slow when it's churning out tons of data, but it's good for a mid-sized application"
"Scalability is an issue because we can't upgrade to new versions due to hardware limitations."
"I'm not really a SQL DBA, so I can't go into the depths of the areas that need to be improved. They can maybe make it a bit easier to educate people on how to develop SQL Server in Azure. They can provide some free seminars and webinars and more training in general for easier migration. I know there is some stuff on Microsoft learning, but it would be helpful and useful to have more up-to-date content."
"Azure SQL can improve by adding more machine learning features like other databases, such as Cassandra or Cosmos DB."
"SQL Azure could improve by adding more features."
"It does take some time to learn about the environment."
"There is probably more functionality in our on-prem SQL Server than SQL Azure."
