Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud vs. Oracle Database Cloud Service

Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Lumen's database services include managed and unmanaged hosted services of popular SQL databases, including Managed MySQL or Managed Microsoft SQL Server from Lumen Cloud, and Percona MySQL Server or Microsoft SQL database instance deployed on Lumen's cloud platform.	N/A
Oracle Database Cloud Service	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Oracle offers their DBaaS, the Oracle Database Cloud Service, touting high availability, scalability, available managed or under enterprise control.	N/A

Pricing

Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Oracle Database Cloud Service
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Oracle Database Cloud Service
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Cloud service Pro Oracle cloud Pro Terms of data
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Programming languages Minus Not supported Minus User interface

Features

Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud - Ratings	Oracle Database Cloud Service 9.7 4 Ratings 11% above category average
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	9.04 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	10.04 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Oracle Database Cloud Service
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Enterprises	SingleStore Score 9.8 out of 10	SingleStore Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Oracle Database Cloud Service
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Lumen Relational Databases in the Cloud	Oracle Database Cloud Service
Likelihood to Recommend	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) No answers on this topic	Oracle 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. Incentivized Nagabhushan Krishnappa Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Read full review
Pros	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) No answers on this topic	Oracle 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. Incentivized Abdul Wahab Khan Project Manager Read full review
Cons	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) No answers on this topic	Oracle 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! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) No answers on this topic	Oracle 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) No answers on this topic	Oracle 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. Incentivized Nagabhushan Krishnappa Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Read full review
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