Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon RDS
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.N/A
Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Oracle offers the Autonomous Transaction Processing, supporting database self-repair and maintenance with machine learning to eliminate human labor, human error, and manual tuning.
$1.34
OCPU Per Hour
Pricing
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Editions & Modules
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
$0.24 ($0.48)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB
$0.25 ($0.50)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MySQL
$0.29 ($0.58)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for Oracle
$0.482 ($0.964)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server
$1.02 ($1.52)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Transaction Processing
$1.34
OCPU Per Hour
Exadata Storage
$118.40
Per Terabyte Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDSOracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(55 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(4 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Whether your organization is [an] early startup or large company AWS RDS fits in most of the cases such as 1. Easy to start, setup, used by [a] few or large developers team. 2. You can easily scale DB [instances] when your business required scaling as a startup or pay only for [users] to optimize cost as [a] large organization. 3. If your application requires SQL Server, Oracle, or Maria DB then you should use AWS RDS instance. 4. Your application requires better availability and security of data you can use AWS RDS instance. When AWS RDS is not recommended: 1. You need automatic scaling or capacity flexibility as request load gradually increases, better to use Amazon Aurora DB in this case.
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Oracle
If your company's value is not increased by maintaining databases, you should use the ATP.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon RDS helps organizations handle relational database management tasks such as migration, backup, recovery, and patching. Some of the main features of Amazon RDS are replication, high-performance storage, and failure detection. One of the biggest advantages of Amazon RDS is its ease of use.
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Oracle
  • Quick and simple to deploy (less than 5 steps to create a new instance)
  • No administrative tasks (backup, re-sizing) required
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • RDS has everything that can be configured, but when you need efficient configuration we need little bit more knowledge about Dev Ops things.
  • Although restoration is available, when you need to do it it's pretty tricky. A new instance will be created and you will face some downtime.
  • Understanding which configuration and pricing would be suitable for startups as well [as] enterprise needs more reading and research.
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Oracle
  • 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
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
It has worked reliably in the past, we have not had any problems that would have been caused because of using RDS. Also it's future-proof, it will scale easily if user base of the application that relies on it is going to increase rapidly. Our application deployments also rely on it so renewing it is essential for business & switching to different provider would cause costs without any apparent benefit.
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Oracle
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Usability
Amazon AWS
I've been using AWS Relational Database Services in several projects in different environments and from the AWS products, maybe this one together to EC2 are my favourite. They deliver what they promise. Reliable, fast, easy and with a fair price (in comparison to commercial products which have obscure license agreements).
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Oracle
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.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
I have only had good experiences in working with AWS support. I will admit that my experience comes from the benefit of having a premium tier of support but even working with free-tier accounts I have not had problems getting help with AWS products when needed. And most often, the docs do a pretty good job of explaining how to operate a service so a quick spin through the docs has been useful in solving problems.
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Oracle
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
[Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)] is much better to have everything in the cloud instead of having it on-premise once you can get all the benefits from Cloud. Of course, it can be a bit expensive if your company it's not growing anymore but if you check it in detail, you can see that the scalability of Cloud makes a lot of sense and also the reliability.
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Oracle
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.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Reduced overhead in management of host system
  • Reduced maintenance requirements for keeping database engine up to date and applying security patches
  • Reduced risk of data-loss during an outage do to automatically configured and maintained multi-zone replication and backups
  • Reduced risk of data leakage, leveraging amazon's engineering/admin/ops teams to maintain network and server security.
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Oracle
  • 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
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ScreenShots

Amazon RDS Screenshots

Screenshot of A look inside the RDS console.

Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing Screenshots

Screenshot of Autonomous Transaction Processing Database takes automatic backupsScreenshot of Provisioning a new Autonomous Transaction Processing is simpleScreenshot of Autonomous Transaction Processing Database  ConsoleScreenshot of Auto scaling and manual scaling options of the database