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Amazon RDS
If you're operating within the Amazon universe of cloud computing, it's almost a no-brainer to utilize [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)]. RDS is well suited for probably a majority of applications that are candidates to host on a cloud computing platform as it reduces overall management and complexity of your system.However, if you're doing a lot of data exporting/importing using tools that write to/read from the disk on the server, you may have challenges integrating RDS, as you have no access to the underlying host.

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Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesOracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
If your company's value is not increased by maintaining databases, you should use the ATP.
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
retraced GmbHInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Database-as-a-Service
Amazon RDS
9.4
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Automatic software patching
Amazon RDS
9.7
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Database scalability
Amazon RDS
9.7
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Automated backups
Amazon RDS
9.2
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Database security provisions
Amazon RDS
9.5
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Monitoring and metrics
Amazon RDS
8.3
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Automatic host deployment
Amazon RDS
9.7
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Pros
Amazon RDS
- For engineers with experience managing databases, setup is simple. And for the uninitiated, the RDS console interface becomes intuitive with some practice.
- Not having the maintain the underlying infrastructure is a great benefit of using RDS. Patching and backups can be scheduled from the console and from then on are pretty much automated.
- Right-sizing the DB instance to perform optimally with an application can be a very simple procedure. If a DB instance is not struggling to keep up, the instance size can be scaled up with just a few clicks.
- Baseline configurations are generally sane for most RDS instances. This allows novice developers and engineers to get the most out of the service without being a complete database administrator.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Quick and simple to deploy (less than 5 steps to create a new instance)
- No administrative tasks (backup, re-sizing) required
Sr. Software Developer / DBA
Personal UseInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Cons
Amazon RDS
- There should be a proper listing of all parameter groups alongside the instances that they are attached to. This would help to see which instances would be affected if a parameter group is changed.
- RDS should allow SUPER privilege to the master user. A few advanced tasks(like getting a physical backup using MySQL Enterprise Backup) fail because SUPER privilege is not available for the master user.
- A few parameters are not modifiable in the parameter groups and the access to the server filesystem is not given. This should not be the case because as an advanced user, you might want to understand things a little deeper.
Software Developer
ezDIHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Connectivity between ATP and Oracle Kuberentes Engine cluster seems to drop randomly
- The ATP could come in an even smaller shape as the smallest shape is already quite big . But if must be more than always free, as that version does have connectivity limitations about 20 connections
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
retraced GmbHInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
Usability
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS 8.8
Based on 5 answers
The vast majority of things you'd want to do in Amazon Relational Database Service are simple to accomplish and remarkably consistent across database engines. Pricing, scalability and monitoring are easy to configure. If I had one complaint, it's that database engine specific features are not well documented in AWS, requiring reading external documentation in order to use some database systems to the fullest. But for most use cases, the defaults available in AWS are simple, easy to use, and good enough.

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Professional in Information Technology
Human Resources Company, 51-200 employeesOracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing 7.3
Based on 1 answer
You get almost all the features of Oracle Database, including the ability to deploy APEX applications, without having to worry about system, storage or database configuration and maintenance, backups, etc. Also, you can start for free and move up adding resources as you need.
Sr. Software Developer / DBA
Personal UseInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS 8.9
Based on 25 answers
The product is fairly straight forward to use, and staff as well as knowledge base is pretty good for getting answers you may need. The product is a great, flexible alternative to adding to one's own in-house infrastructure. It's especially useful for environments that you aren't sure about the overall long term need. Amazon Relational Database Service is great for environments that once you determine the long term need, can be maintained by Amazon.
President, Principal
Klaxon IT SolutionsHospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service will probably give you everything you need from a traditional manual DB setup, except everything is managed for you. The only downside is having to pay the premium for the service; however, the trade-off of not having to deal with the intricacies involved with database administration, make it well worth it for most.
Senior Software Engineer
RocketripComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Both Azure SQL Database and Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing offer a powerful and robust database platform. The advantage of Autonomous Transaction Processing is the ability to host APEX applications for free and without any special/complicated deployment or configuration process. Having a rapid development environment embedded for free was the main advantage for choosing Oracle as my cloud database provider.
Sr. Software Developer / DBA
Personal UseInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon RDS
- Switching back to RDS from Redshift has made my BI Dashboards much more performant (though again, we're not dealing with data in the magnitudes that justify the Redshift toolset).
- It has decreased our tech debt. Engineering has been much more straight forward.
- Our uptime has been improved by removing unnecessary data migration processes.
Senior Project Manager
OnMetricInternet, 11-50 employees
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
- Approx 100 times faster spin up than manual setup of an Oracle DB
- 3h annual maintenance for big version releases (18c to 19c) compared to est. 500h annual maintenance with manual database updates
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
retraced GmbHInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees
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Amazon RDS
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
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Amazon RDS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Free to try. Pay only for what you use with no minimum fee.
Amazon RDS Editions & Modules
Edition
Amazon RDS for MySQL | $0.29 ($0.58)1 |
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL | $0.24 ($0.48)1 |
Amazon RDS for MariaDB | $0.25 ($0.50)1 |
Amazon RDS for Oracle | $0.482 ($0.964)1 |
Amazon RDS for SQL Server | $1.02 ($1.52)1 |
- per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Additional Pricing Details
—Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Editions & Modules
Edition
Transaction Processing | $1.341 |
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Exadata Storage | $118.402 |
- OCPU Per Hour
- Per Terabyte Per month