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Amazon RDS vs SkySQL comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (9th)
SkySQL
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 12.7%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SkySQL is 0.7%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon RDS12.7%
SkySQL0.7%
Other86.6%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Donny Trijatmiko - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at MyRobin.ID
Managed databases have simplified recovery and high availability for AI recruitment workloads
The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable and useful so far are its fully managed service, point-in-time restore, and other serverless features such as snapshots and backups, which have eased my job to manage databases. The automated backups of Amazon RDS help in data recovery by mitigating disaster recovery. I can revert to the nearest time if there is any data corruption or other issues, and this helps tremendously. I assess Amazon RDS's read replica feature for improving application performance as good. For standby nodes in Amazon RDS, I am using them for high failover, and so far it has been performing well. I have used Amazon RDS's Multi-AZ deployments, and it helps enhance data availability by providing high failover. It enhances high availability for my application as well.
Shubham-Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Projects at Cognizant
Cloud database has reduced infrastructure effort and now lets us focus on clean transactional data
Currently, we have not identified significant improvement areas for SkySQL. However, enhanced AI functionality would be beneficial. We use AI in Snowflake but not in SkySQL. If SkySQL could write SQL queries automatically using AI or improve SQL query performance, this would be valuable for future use cases.When comparing SkySQL to other databases such as Databricks and Snowflake, these platforms offer more AI-related functionality and data lineage capabilities, allowing visibility of the complete data journey from source to target. SkySQL currently lacks data lineage functionality. Since we transform data using stored procedures and views, implementing data lineage functionality would help us track the complete journey of data from source through all intermediate transformation steps to the final layer. I rate SkySQL an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The biggest advantage of Amazon RDS, which is basically an AWS service, is that you can customize it."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable and useful so far are its fully managed service, point-in-time restore, and other serverless features such as snapshots and backups, which have eased my job to manage databases."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"Very easy to start with."
"Despite the issues around pricing and technical support, RDS is a good choice for organizations due to the fact that it's very easy to use."
"It's very useful to save customer's data in a secure manner, we can easily handle all the customer records with encryption mode."
"RDS is stable, a cloud solution is always stable, and RDS servers are solid."
"SkySQL is easy to use and has reliable performance, offering scalability and fast execution."
"We never face performance issues, and backup and scalability are all managed automatically, which has significantly improved our SLA."
"In my experience, the best feature that SkySQL offers is a fully managed database service which reduces operational overhead, along with its high availability and automatic failover for business-critical applications, and its scalability to handle growing data volumes and overloads, plus automated backups and disaster recovery capabilities."
"Compared with all of these options, we concluded that SkySQL is one of the best solutions addressing those criteria."
 

Cons

"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"Amazon cannot guarantee the stability of some extensions, and there is a need for different extensions to meet PCI requirements."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The setup might be a bit challenging for multi-level applications."
"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."
"Perhaps more platforms in terms of database engine versions would be beneficial."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"They could provide better integration for the solution with Microsoft products."
"When comparing SkySQL to other databases such as Databricks and Snowflake, these platforms offer more AI-related functionality and data lineage capabilities, allowing visibility of the complete data journey from source to target."
"More end-to-end deployment guides, additional reference architectures, dashboards, and more proactive performance tuning recommendations would make the platform even easier to adapt and manage."
"It is still early in our evaluation of SkySQL, so we do not have major concerns, but if anything, we would like to see even better documentation, onboarding guidance, and monitoring capabilities to make adoption and ongoing management easier."
"I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Amazon RDS is reasonable."
"The cost is manageable because you can see the expense associated with each instance and utilize tools for tagging and cost control."
"It is less expensive than SQL Server. We pay based on the usage on a monthly basis."
"The solution is expensive."
"Amazon RDS could improve by reducing the price."
"The solution’s pricing could be cheaper."
"Licensing fees are paid on an annual basis."
"Amazon RDS is less expensive than other solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
7%
Insurance Company
32%
Construction Company
31%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Transportation Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise24
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?
I think Amazon RDS can be improved or enhanced if it can be implemented with other monitoring tools such as Percona. Currently, I am trying to add Percona monitoring for monitoring in addition to i...
What is your primary use case for Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS is typically used for AI applications. I am developing it for an AI recruitment agent and for collecting data for HRIS, Software as a Service for a workforce as a service, and storing data.
What needs improvement with SkySQL?
Currently, we have not identified significant improvement areas for SkySQL. However, enhanced AI functionality would be beneficial. We use AI in Snowflake but not in SkySQL. If SkySQL could write S...
What is your primary use case for SkySQL?
SkySQL serves as our transactional layer where we store metadata for all our applications before moving data into our Snowflake database. We receive transactional data from various applications, st...
What advice do you have for others considering SkySQL?
Reducing our team size has significantly affected efficiency and costs for our organization. This cost efficiency benefit resulted from replacing two infrastructure team members since the infrastru...
 

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