We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it requires an easy setup phase, and it is also easy to use while not being too heavy on its users."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"I am particularly fond of the intelligent capabilities that enhance the backend, utilizing technology to analyze SQL queries."
"Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime."
"The most valuable feature is that it is based on Exadata infrastructure, which is Oracle 's leading engineered system that is trusted, fault-tolerant, and has unique performance features."
"I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable."
"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."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"We had some problems in the developer's environment. We had some problems with the initial installation environment."
"As a customer, you can't see the boot messages of your virtualized guest machines."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited."
"For the data migration, we used ZDM. It was not integrated with the databases, and the documentation lacks clarity."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is ranked 9th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer writes "Reduction in database creation time, provides good performance but challenges when interacting with the OCI console". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Yugabyte Platform, whereas Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is most compared with Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud SQL and MongoDB Atlas. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer report.
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