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Oracle Database as a Service 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

Oracle Database as a Service
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
70
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SkySQL
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
16th
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 August 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Oracle Database as a Service is 6.8%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SkySQL is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Database as a Service6.8%
SkySQL0.5%
Other92.7%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2154465 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cloud database service has reduced admin workload and delivers reliable automated operations
There are no managed detection response solutions or backup and recovery and point detection response. Flash storage is not available as Flash Creek store. Robotics process automation and application security testing are not available; I went to the working solutions, but most of the time it did not work. Oracle Database as a Service in particular is the Oracle business suite or the Oracle data access. As far as working with it as a service, I have not even received a reply yet from the relational database service. I do not know how many people are using Oracle Database as a Service in my organization. For the diabetes service, I have used some of the perks from Arkin. I rate Oracle Database as a Service at a nine overall.
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 most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is its use as a provisioning database."
"What I found most valuable about Oracle Database as a Service is its fast transactions and materialized views."
"Oracle is a very good solution that I would recommend."
"The product's implementation was pretty straightforward."
"I recommend Database as a Service to others over other similar solutions, such as Microsoft Dynamics or SAP."
"Reduced the number of traditional storage/server architecture, and more productivity and quick provisioning of the database helped moving the application to production quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch."
"Oracle Database as a Service is a scalable and robust solution."
"Compared with all of these options, we concluded that SkySQL is one of the best solutions addressing those criteria."
"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."
 

Cons

"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the provisioning. You have to recreate on-premise hardware environments in the cloud, it was not very intuitive."
"Earlier, the interface was continuously changing. Features you used would be moved somewhere else, so it was a little challenging to navigate, but now I think it's stable."
"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."
"The price of the solution is an area of concern. From an improvement perspective, the price of the solution should be lowered."
"I see some negative sides that could be improved, and that is the licensing. The issue with licensing is the price and the way they license through partners."
"The licensing model is complicated and should be simplified."
"On the cloud services, they need to improve some console-level items, including the logging of the databases on the console level."
"The support provides help based on the same size fits all kinds of approaches, making it an area where improvements are needed."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I believe one area for improvement would be more advanced monitoring and reporting features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing may seem expensive, but the value corresponds to the quality of the product."
"The price of Oracle Database as a Service is expensive compared to other similar solutions."
"The price of the solution depends on the scale of how you will use it."
"There should be a standard way to license the database in a virtual environment (e.g. VMware) and there should be a low-end version (like Standard Edition One) again."
"The cost for Oracle Database as a Service is higher than that for other similar solutions."
"The licensing is a nightmare. Tons of options which need to be licensed individually, and no real offering for VMware or other Hypervisors."
"The tool's licensing is on an yearly basis."
"Oracle Database as a Service has a yearly licensing fee, which is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
10%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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 Enterprise17
Large Enterprise35
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database as a Service?
I am familiar with the pricing for licenses for running Oracle Database as a Service in AWS. My thoughts on their pricing are that it is reasonable pricing.
What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?
I cannot comment on what can be improved in Oracle Database as a Service sensors. An additional feature I would like to see added is automatic disaster recovery fill scenarios; we do have a disaste...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Database as a Service?
I use Oracle Database as a Service for some of the custom home-grown applications. I chose Oracle Database as a Service based on the requirements; the applications requirements are also to avoid so...
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...
 

Also Known As

Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud
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Sample Customers

Solution-Soft, DX Marketing, Suredell and Partners, Frontiers, SettleOurEstate.com, Demand Analysis Ltd, endlich IT & Projekt Service OHG
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