Amazon RDS vs Oracle Database In-Memory comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle are both solutions in the Relational Databases Tools category. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Amazon RDS

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

2.6

Organizations benefit financially from Amazon RDS's cost-effectiveness, agility, and scalability, despite varying results and AWS expense concerns.

Sentiment score

4.3

Oracle Database In-Memory offers substantial ROI and benefits, though support costs may impact long-term finances for some users.

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.8

Amazon RDS support varies by level and location; premium is efficient, but US standard support often lacks expertise.

Sentiment score

5.5

Oracle Database In-Memory customer service improves in some regions but is inconsistent, with users finding varied support experiences.

The documentation is quite good.

Kenan Çiftçi

Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The official AWS technical support for Amazon RDS is helpful, providing 24/7 assistance for all business support cases with tools such as the health dashboard and AWS trusted advisor.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

I would rate the support from AWS very high, maybe nine, but it also depends on what kind of support you have signed in your contract, whether the premium support or the standard support.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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Support quality varies across regions, with more advanced solutions from the U.S. and UK compared to Asian region support.

Laksiri Bala

DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global

I rate the technical support of Oracle an eight or nine out of ten.

Muhammad Azeem Khan

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator at Shoukat Khanum Memorial Hospital

The technical support from Oracle is very good.

Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Amazon RDS is praised for its scalability and reliability, though some express minor concerns with large dataset management.

Sentiment score

7.7

Oracle Database In-Memory is highly scalable and easily adjustable, effectively managing large datasets and supporting enterprise needs.

Its automated scaling, both in storage and instances, is vital as it eliminates manual interventions.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

The installation of Amazon RDS is quite easy and quite scalable.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Despite being a strong feature, scalability could be improved due to the lack of full functionality in autoscaling.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Amazon RDS is praised for reliability, performance, and uptime with minimal issues, especially with Multi-AZ enhancing stability.

Sentiment score

7.6

Users find Oracle Database In-Memory stable and reliable, despite occasional bugs and high maintenance needs for resource-intensive setups.

Amazon RDS is very stable when deployed correctly across different zones with the right configurations.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

It is a stable product overall, with very few issues.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazon RDS is quite stable, and the SLAs are sort of 99.98%.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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It was very difficult to move data from on-site to cloud in one attempt at the start, because we didn't have sufficient bandwidth to copy the data files to the cloud.

Muhammad Azeem Khan

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator at Shoukat Khanum Memorial Hospital

Oracle Database In-Memory is stable, which means there are no glitches or issues.

Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

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Room For Improvement

Amazon RDS users seek improvements in security, documentation, scalability, integration, and support, with enhanced customization and cost reduction.

Oracle Database In-Memory users seek enhancements in cost, installation, integration, security, scalability, interface, and column store support.

Simplifying migration for those transitioning from on-premises to cloud environments.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

Having native Change Data Capture (CDC) support would be beneficial, allowing for seamless integration with Kafka without relying on external technologies like Debezium.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Enabling performance insights to view query formats where the bottlenecks occur, identifying the fixes, slow queries, and missing indexes.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

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Enhancing features like CAG augmentation and cache augmentation could significantly optimize performance for large language models.

Laksiri Bala

DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global

The area where improvement is required the most in the product is the UI.

Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

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Setup Cost

Amazon RDS pricing is usage-dependent and cost-effective, offering savings on admin costs but can be expensive compared to alternatives.

Oracle Database In-Memory is costly, yet offers valuable performance and features, benefiting larger enterprises despite high licensing fees.

While Azure provides great services, long-term plans on AWS are 20% to 30% cheaper.

Karthikeyan Katkam

AWS Engineer at Neurolov.ai

I find the pricing of Amazon RDS fair, as AWS operates on a pay-for-what-you-use model.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

I rate the price for Amazon as eight on a scale from one to ten.

Kenan Çiftçi

Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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Recent reductions in cloud costs and learning opportunities, such as free portals for students, make the pricing reasonable without hindering access to powerful features and performance.

Laksiri Bala

DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global

The pricing for Oracle Database In-Memory is more affordable.

Muhammad Azeem Khan

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator at Shoukat Khanum Memorial Hospital

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Valuable Features

Amazon RDS provides scalability, security, and flexibility with multi-engine support and simplified operations for diverse applications.

Oracle Database In-Memory enhances performance with real-time analytics, backward compatibility, automated configuration, fast queries, and efficient 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.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

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.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

In some cases, we are using the read replica feature, and it does improve our application performance because we do not allow any downstream system to come to the main storage or main databases and perform a query.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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The biggest benefit of Oracle Database In-Memory is dealing with a huge amount of information without any latency for our response time.

Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

The valuable features of Oracle Database In-Memory include its capability to bypass disk storage for faster memory operations, which is critical for transactions and analytics.

Laksiri Bala

DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (1st)

Oracle Database In-Memory

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Embedded Database (4th), Relational Databases Tools (9th)

Featured Reviews

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Positive experiences with database services, with minor room for feature enhancements observed

I don't really see any disadvantages of Amazon RDS. With Oracle, I think AWS doesn't provide the RAC stability. If you have Oracle installed in your own data centers, you can set up various clusters and we can set up the RACs, but in Amazon RDS, we cannot have the RAC feature of Oracle. They could add that feature. Amazon RDS has limitations regarding RAC. If we talk about installing Oracle in RDS, we cannot have the RAC, but if you deploy Oracle on GCP, then there is probably the RAC feature available. I observed that around two or three years back, but I'm not sure whether they have added the RAC feature in AWS. Amazon RDS is expensive compared to GCP. GCP also has the same features, and although it is quite extensive and feature-rich, I see Amazon RDS as slightly expensive compared to other clouds.

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Hosney Osman

Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone

Real-time analytics have transformed response times and support huge data volumes with compression

I do not have any comment related to the improvement of the solution; for sure, it needs improvement, but for my use cases, it is very sufficient, and I think for the biggest companies, it needs a very powerful infrastructure. The area where improvement is required the most in the product is the UI. The problem with the UI is that it is not complex for understanding, but it needs some training to know what each button does, how it works, and the many variables needed.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Pharma/Biotech Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon RDS?

The product's installation phase is easy.

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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?

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What do you like most about Oracle Database In-Memory?

We can integrate it with any data sources as well.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database In-Memory?

The pricing for Oracle Database In-Memory is more affordable.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database In-Memory?

I currently don't know how Oracle Database In-Memory has benefited my organization. We recently received this query from our high management to use this In-Memory function, so we are currently in p...

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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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Oracle Database In-Memory transparently accelerates analytics by orders of magnitude while simultaneously speeding up mixed-workload OLTP. With Oracle Database In-Memory, users get immediate answers to business questions that previously took hours.

Oracle Database In-Memory delivers leading-edge in-memory performance without the need to restrict functionality, or accept compromises, complexity and risk. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory with any existing Oracle Database compatible application is as easy as flipping a switch - no application changes are required. Oracle Database In-Memory is fully integrated with the Oracle Database’s renowned scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability, and security technologies making it the most industrialstrength offering on the market.

The ability to easily perform real-time data analysis together with real-time transaction processing on all existing applications enables organizations to transform into Real-Time Enterprises that quickly make data-driven decisions, respond instantly to customer demands, and continuously optimize all key processes.

For more information on Oracle Database In-Memory, visit Oracle.com

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