We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service 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 product is very, very easy to use."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"In the cloud, Exadata is more scalable. The on-prem version was limited. It wasn't that scalable because it only came in a quarter rack, half rack, and full rack. In the cloud, it scales to what you need."
"Having the prediction happen in the modular format allows you to start with a lower version of Exadata and then you can keep on upgrading it as per your requirement."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"I also don't think it's very scalable."
"The security features could be improved."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle's support could be better."
"The customer's default choice is the on-premise version of this solution. Only when Oracle or the partners like us, can explain to customers the cloud value proposition, and if the compliance authorities allow, they can look into this cloud solution. It will take some time for Oracle to change its perception of customers' de-facto standards. Exadata used to be treated as a black box, which is not the case now. The customer is aware of what is happening inside, how the configurations have been made, and what patching has been applied. Oracle needs to market the cloud version better."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 12 reviews while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 2 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.6, while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "The product is pretty good for small or mid-scale organizations that don't have the luxury of proper DBAs or a large infra team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service writes "Plenty of features, unique functionality, and priced well". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service, MongoDB Atlas and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SQL Azure and Google Cloud SQL. See our Amazon RDS vs. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service report.
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