Amazon RDS vs Oracle Database Cloud Service

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Engineer in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.

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Nagabhushan Krishnappa

Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

Setting up and managing a new RDS is just a matter of few clicks.
Maintaining different version of backup is just like a matter of turning on and off.
Automatic minor update of database.
Best restore:- You can even restore to 1 second before time.

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Rahul Chhajed

Software Engineer

AtlantisInternet, 11-50 employees

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Eliminates the requirement of hardware and installation.
Minimizes the cost of operation and maintenance.
Scalable to meet the increase in requirements.
Enhances integrity, connectivity and performance of our applications.
Reliable in terms of data security.
Improved speed of querying and searching.

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Abdul Wahab Khan

Project Manager

Softronic Systems (Pvt) LimitedComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

You don't have os-level or hardware-level access to the system, so all your performance tuning needs to be done within your application or within the parameters of the database engine that amazon allows you to customize.
Customizations/Extensions to the database engines are impossible, as you don't have OS-level access.
Migrating in/out of RDS with zero down time can be relatively challenging from a configuration and execution perspective, depending on your infrastructure.

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Engineer in Engineering

Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees

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When we restart the DBaaS instance, it seems like we had to add the NIC network back again. I'm not sure if it's specific to our instance configuration!

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Consultant in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Free to try. Pay only for what you use with no minimum fee.

Starting Price

$0 per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Amazon RDS Editions & Modules

Edition

Amazon RDS for MySQL	$0.29 ($0.58)¹
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)

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Oracle Database Cloud Service Editions & Modules

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Usability

Amazon RDS 9.9

Based on 4 answers

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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Erlon Sousa Pinheiro

Senior Devops Engineer

SOTIComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon RDS 9.2

Based on 24 answers

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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Michael Jenkins

Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

[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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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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I would prefer the oracle database as service where my complete implementation is on Oracle Cloud Platform and as BI Implementation where datawarehouse is built on oracle database.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

RDS has made sure that we don't spend a lot of time resolving issues that are not even remotely relevant to our business use-cases. It has thus made the life of DB administrators easy which allows them to explore other avenues as well.
Using RDS for around 10 years now, we have never had an issue BECAUSE of RDS. It is a very reliable service.

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Alok Patwal

Software Developer

ezDIHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

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Billing on Hosted Environment per hour, OCPU per hour, block volumes, object storage, etc.
Costing & maintenance, patching.
Security & TDE cycles.
Backups & recovery.
The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features, like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc. which make the solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well.
Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and high ROI.

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Nagabhushan Krishnappa

Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Amazon RDS

Oracle Database Cloud Service

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Oracle Database Cloud Service

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Amazon RDS Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Oracle Database Cloud Service Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Usability

Amazon RDS

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Support Rating

Amazon RDS

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Alternatives Considered

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