AWS Lambda vs Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Likelihood to Recommend

[AWS Lambda] is very well suited for the projects that doesn't have any infra but needs it where short running processes are required. But if your application need to run continuously than this might not be the very apt tool for you.

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Ojas Elawadhi

Data Analyst

PaytmFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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We use it only when we need to and we have found that the software does what it needs to, it's user friendly and us also really helpful in many other ways as well. Like I mentioned before, we love the security and the speed we receive.

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

Lambda provides multiple methods for triggering functions, this includes AWS resources and services and external triggers like APIs and CLI calls.
The compute provided my Lambda is largely hands off for operations teams. Once the function is deployed, the management overhead is minimal since there are no servers to maintain.
Lambda's pricing can be very cost effective given that users are only charged for the time the function runs and associated costs like network or storage if those are used. A function that executes quickly and is not called often can cost next to nothing.

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Michael Jenkins

Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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User friendly
Offers support and assistance
Worth the cost
Time efficient
Good reliability
Reliable support

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Putting a significant portion of your codebase into AWS Lambda and taking advantage of the high level of integration with other AWS services comes with the risk of vendor lock-in.
While the AWS Lambda environment is "not your problem," it's also not at your disposal to extend or modify, nor does it preserve state between function executions.
AWS Lambda functions are subject to strict time limitations, and will be aborted if they exceed five minutes of execution time. This can be a problem for some longer-running tasks that are otherwise well-suited to serverless delivery.

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Benjamin Plotkin

Technical Project Manager

California State University, NorthridgeEducation Management, 1001-5000 employees

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Less pricey
Customizable
A little more help in setting up/using the systems
Constant upgrades are always pricey
Some bugs noticable

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

AWS Lambda 8.9

Based on 14 answers

I give it a seven is usability because it's AWS. Their UI's are always clunkier than the competition and their documentation is rather cumbersome. There's SO MUCH to dig through and it's a gamble if you actually end up finding the corresponding info if it will actually help. Like I said before, going to google with a specific problem is likely a better route because AWS is quite ubiquitous and chances are you're not the first to encounter the problem. That being said, using SAM (Serverless application model) and it's SAM Local environment makes running local instances of your Lambdas in dev environments painless and quite fun. Using Nodejs + Lambda + SAM Local + VS Code debugger = AWESOME.

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Verified User

Engineer in Research & Development

Fund-Raising Company, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

AWS Lambda 8.3

Based on 24 answers

I have not needed support for AWS Lambda, since it is already using Python, which has resources all over the internet. AWS blog posts have information about how to install some libraries, which is necessary for some more complex operations, but this is available online and didn't require specific customer support for.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Internet Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure Functions is another product that provides lambda functionality, but the documentation for some of Azure's products is quite hard to read. Additionally, AWS Lambda was one of the first cloud computing products on a large cloud service that implemented lambda functions, so they have had the most time to develop the product, increase the quality of service, and extend functionality to more languages. Amazon, by far, has the best service for Lambda that I know.

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Fedor Paretsky

Co-Founder/CEO

aspace, Inc.Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Although new, Oracle has been exceptionally good speed wise and the customer service is top notch

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

I was able to perform a lot of processing on data delivered from my website and little or no cost. This was a big plus to me.
Programming AWS Lambda is quite easy once you understand the time limits to the functions.
AWS Lambda has really good integration with the AWS S3 storage system. This a very good method of delivering data to be processed and a good place to pick it up after processing.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Research Company, 1001-5000 employees

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It has had a good impact we are able to complete our projects in time
We can save all our data in a safe and secure location
Our data analysis is now faster than ever

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Verified User

Employee in Research & Development

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

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?

No

AWS Lambda Editions & Modules

Edition

128 MB	$0.0000000021¹
1024 MB	$0.0000000167¹
10240 MB	$0.0000001667¹

Per 1 ms

Additional Pricing Details

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General

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?

No

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Likelihood to Recommend

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Feature Rating Comparison

Ease of building user interfaces

Scalability

Platform management overhead

Workflow engine capability

Platform access control

Services-enabled integration

Development environment creation

Development environment replication

Issue monitoring and notification

Issue recovery

Upgrades and platform fixes

Pros

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Cons

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Usability

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Support Rating

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Alternatives Considered

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Return on Investment

AWS Lambda

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

AWS Lambda Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Oracle Big Data Cloud Service Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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