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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and Redis based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service (DBaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Amazon RDS vs. Redis

July 2024

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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

6.5

Implementing Redis improved transaction efficiency, reduced costs, enhanced performance, increased developer effectiveness, and supported scalability for organizations.

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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

1.0

Users rarely contact Redis support, but those who do find it knowledgeable, with satisfaction levels ranging from moderate to excellent.

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.

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

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

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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

Redis excels in scalability, efficiently handling large datasets with ease, making it ideal for enterprise-level operations and demands.

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

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

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

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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

Data migration and changes to application-side configurations are challenging due to the lack of automatic migration tools in a non-clustered legacy system.

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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

7.7

Redis is stable, reliable under heavy loads, supports high availability, and user ratings reflect strong performance, needing load improvements.

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

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%.

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

Redis is fairly stable.

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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Room For Improvement

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

Enhancements in documentation, user-friendliness, scalability, security, cloud integration, and support are desired improvements for Redis.

Right now, Amazon RDS supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, but there are certain other RDS engines that it cannot support yet.

AungKhaing Soe

Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

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

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

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AICE Graduate at alx_africa

Data persistence and recovery face issues with compatibility across major versions, making upgrades possible but downgrades not active.

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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup Cost

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

Redis's open-source core is cost-effective, but enterprise features require a license; managed services start at $5/month.

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.

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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

Since we use an open-source version of Redis, we do not experience any setup costs or licensing expenses.

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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Valuable Features

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

Redis provides fast data access with caching, geolocation, JSON, and supports scalability, high availability, and efficient event-driven applications.

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

High availability is a basic fundamental architecture requirement. Multi-AZ automatically complies with that requirement, so that is a very helpful and useful feature.

AungKhaing Soe

Senior Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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

It functions similarly to a foundational building block in a larger system, enabling native integration and high functionality in core data processes.

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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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) (2nd), Relational Databases Tools (9th)

Redis

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

NoSQL Databases (5th), Managed NoSQL Databases (9th), In-Memory Data Store Services (1st), Vector Databases (3rd), AI Software Development (17th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Database Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon RDS is designed for Database as a Service (DBaaS) and holds a mindshare of 14.8%, down 25.3% compared to last year.
Redis, on the other hand, focuses on In-Memory Data Store Services, holds 23.1% mindshare, up 12.6% since last year.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon RDS	14.8%
MongoDB Atlas	12.7%
Microsoft Azure SQL Database	11.3%
Other	61.2%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

In-Memory Data Store Services Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Redis	23.1%
Amazon ElastiCache	18.6%
Google Cloud Memorystore	14.5%
Other	43.8%

In-Memory Data Store Services

Featured Reviews

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

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

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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Data Engineer at a photography company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are a few areas where Redis could improve. The pub-sub capabilities could be optimized to handle network sessions better, as there are challenges with maintaining sessions between clients and systems. Data persistence and recovery face issues with compatibility across major versions, making upgrades possible but downgrades not active. There's a need for better migration tools to support data movements in a hybrid environment. Concerns exist about licensing and community engagement due to changes in Redis and its forks.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

University

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

26%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

University

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	11
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon RDS?

The product's installation phase is easy.

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

The pricing for Amazon RDS is reasonable.

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 ...

What do you like most about Redis?

Redis is better tested and is used by large companies. I haven't found a direct alternative to what Redis offers. Plus, there are a lot of support and learning resources available, which help you u...

What needs improvement with Redis?

The disadvantage of Redis is that it's a little bit hard to have too many clusters or too many nodes and create the clusters. The sync between the nodes is easier to implement with Couchbase, for e...

What is your primary use case for Redis?

Redis is used for a part of a booking engine for travel, specifically for the front part to get some sessions and information about the sessions. If a customer or user is using the sites in differe...

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Also Known As

RDS

Redis Enterprise

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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Redis offers high-speed, in-memory storage, renowned for real-time performance. It supports quick data retrieval and is used commonly in applications like analytics and gaming.

Renowned for real-time performance, Redis delivers high-speed in-memory storage, making it a favorite for applications needing quick data retrieval. Its diverse data structures and caching capabilities support a broad array of use cases, including analytics and gaming. Redis ensures robust scalability with master-slave replication and clustering, while its publish/subscribe pattern renders it reliable for event-driven applications. The solution integrates smoothly with existing systems, minimizing performance tuning needs. Although documentation on scalability and security could be improved, Redis remains cost-effective and stable, commonly utilized in cloud environments. Enhancing integration with cloud services like AWS and Google Cloud and refining GUI may improve usability.

What are the key features of Redis?

High Speed: In-memory data storage for swift access.
Scalability: Master-slave replication and clustering for growth.
Data Structures: Supports diverse types for varied uses.
Persistence: RDB snapshots and AOF logs ensure durability.
Integration: Seamless integration reduces tuning efforts.

What should users look for in Redis reviews?

Performance: Real-time data retrieval boosts efficiency.
Cost-Effectiveness: Stable, budget-friendly implementation.
Versatility: Suitable for diverse environments and platforms.
Reliability: Ensures data persistence and high availability.

Redis finds application across industries for tasks like caching to improve application performance and speed, minimizing database load. It enables real-time processing for session storage, push notifications, and analytics. As a messaging platform, Redis handles high traffic and supports replication and clustering for cross-platform scalability.

Sample Customers

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1. Twitter 2. GitHub 3. StackOverflow 4. Pinterest 5. Snapchat 6. Craigslist 7. Digg 8. Weibo 9. Airbnb 10. Uber 11. Slack 12. Trello 13. Shopify 14. Coursera 15. Medium 16. Twitch 17. Foursquare 18. Meetup 19. Kickstarter 20. Docker 21. Heroku 22. Bitbucket 23. Groupon 24. Flipboard 25. SoundCloud 26. BuzzFeed 27. Disqus 28. The New York Times 29. Walmart 30. Nike 31. Sony 32. Philips