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Amazon RDS vs SkySQL comparison

 

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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:
 

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 (8th)
SkySQL
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
17th
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 July 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 11.8%, down from 23.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SkySQL is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon RDS11.8%
SkySQL0.4%
Other87.8%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2592669 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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 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."
"Aurora, the RDS product, is excellent."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"It's a fully managed database, so that makes our life easier from the operational standpoint. That is the key, basically."
"RDS MySQL (and Postgres) are great managed database services."
"It significantly reduces database management overhead."
"The biggest advantage of Amazon RDS, which is basically an AWS service, is that you can customize it."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"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."
"SkySQL is easy to use and has reliable performance, offering scalability and fast execution."
"Compared with all of these options, we concluded that SkySQL is one of the best solutions addressing those criteria."
 

Cons

"The solution is a bit expensive."
"In the next release, it would be great to have access to core parameters to improve or tweak the performance."
"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."
"For improvements, Amazon RDS could work on more features for multi-availability zone deployment to enhance higher availability, and on simplifying migration for those transitioning from on-premises to cloud environments."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"You can only get access from the sales support. That means if you want to buy something or renew your subscription or upgrade, all these services are easily available. Yet, if you would like to get some technical support, you have to pay for it. You have to pay for an additional subscription."
"I think Amazon RDS can be improved or enhanced if it can be implemented with other monitoring tools such as Percona."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"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."
"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."
"I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is fairly priced."
"The pricing of RDS is a little bit high compared to Microsoft... However, it is a good price compared to other solutions."
"The solution’s pricing could be cheaper."
"The price could be better."
"The product is expensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where ten is the most expensive, and one is the cheapest, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
"I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
7%
Insurance Company
32%
Construction Company
31%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Transportation Company
6%
 

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?
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 is your primary use case for Amazon RDS?
I am a Solutions Architect, so I design solutions for our clients. Prior to this role, I was an implementation engineer, so I also implement solutions for our customers.
What needs improvement with SkySQL?
I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features. Along with additional built-in analytics capabilities, this enhancement could provide deeper insight and...
What is your primary use case for SkySQL?
I have used SkySQL for database management, curing, and supporting data-driven applications. Our main use case for SkySQL is database management and data analytics. We use SkySQL to store, manage, ...
What advice do you have for others considering SkySQL?
SkySQL supports our compliance requirements through its security, access control, and data management features. It helps us maintain proper data governance and meet internal compliance standards. O...
 

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