Oracle MySQL Cloud Service vs. Amazon Redshift

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is an enterprise-grade database-as-a-service (including automated database management) offering of MySQL.N/A
Amazon Redshift
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Redshift is a hosted data warehouse solution, from Amazon Web Services.
$0.24
per GB per month
Pricing
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Redshift Managed Storage
$0.24
per GB per month
Current Generation
$0.25 - $13.04
per hour
Previous Generation
$0.25 - $4.08
per hour
Redshift Spectrum
$5.00
per terabyte of data scanned
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Top Pros
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Features
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Oracle MySQL Cloud Service
8.7
1 Ratings
0% below category average
Amazon Redshift
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Small Businesses
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
SingleStore
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Snowflake
Snowflake
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(37 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle MySQL Cloud ServiceAmazon Redshift
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
It is very scalable and it gives us backup for everything. Because of this feature, we (as a developer) can do any R&D if required. It is very stable so we can get any type of help. It has a recovery feature also which we used recently for my project. It is very easy to recover.
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Amazon AWS
If the number of connections is expected to be low, but the amounts of data are large or projected to grow it is a good solutions especially if there is previous exposure to PostgreSQL. Speaking of Postgres, Redshift is based on several versions old releases of PostgreSQL so the developers would not be able to take advantage of some of the newer SQL language features. The queries need some fine-tuning still, indexing is not provided, but playing with sorting keys becomes necessary. Lastly, there is no notion of the Primary Key in Redshift so the business must be prepared to explain why duplication occurred (must be vigilant for)
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Pros
Oracle
  • Oracle database has ability to store large scale of data.
  • It can support any kind of scenario with any label of system.
  • Encryption and security is the key features of Oracle database 12c.
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Amazon AWS
  • [Amazon] Redshift has Distribution Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables, it improves Query performance. For instance, we can define Mapping/Meta-data tables with Distribution-All Key, so that it gets replicated across all the nodes, for fast joins and fast query results.
  • [Amazon] Redshift has Sort Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables along with above Distribution Keys, it further improves your Query performance. It also has Composite Sort Keys and Interleaved Sort Keys, to support various use cases
  • [Amazon] Redshift is forked out of PostgreSQL DB, and then AWS added "MPP" (Massively Parallel Processing) and "Column Oriented" concepts to it, to make it a powerful data store.
  • [Amazon] Redshift has "Analyze" operation that could be performed on tables, which will update the stats of the table in leader node. This is sort of a ledger about which data is stored in which node and which partition with in a node. Up to date stats improves Query performance.
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Cons
Oracle
  • It has some issues [when] performing local unit testing in personal edition.
  • It is costly if we will go for cloud.
  • Need license for some features.
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Amazon AWS
  • We've experienced some problems with hanging queries on Redshift Spectrum/external tables. We've had to roll back to and old version of Redshift while we wait for AWS to provide a patch.
  • Redshift's dialect is most similar to that of PostgreSQL 8. It lacks many modern features and data types.
  • Constraints are not enforced. We must rely on other means to verify the integrity of transformed tables.
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Usability
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
Just very happy with the product, it fits our needs perfectly. Amazon pioneered the cloud and we have had a positive experience using RedShift. Really cool to be able to see your data housed and to be able to query and perform administrative tasks with ease.
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Support Rating
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
The support was great and helped us in a timely fashion. We did use a lot of online forums as well, but the official documentation was an ongoing one, and it did take more time for us to look through it. We would have probably chosen a competitor product had it not been for the great support
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
It has the most stable database. It smoothly supports [a] huge [amount of] data. Security-wise it is best among them. It is a very large community and has well-defined documentation, which can support [during the] implementation of the Oracle database. We can easily scale up servers whenever [we] change our requirements. Oracle12c is best for large-scale projects like banking and retails.
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Amazon AWS
Than Vertica: Redshift is cheaper and AWS integrated (which was a plus because the whole company was on AWS).
Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.
Than Hive: Hive is great if you are in the PB+ range, but latencies tend to be much slower than Redshift and it is not suited for ad-hoc applications.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
Redshift is relatively cheaper tool but since the pricing is dynamic, there is always a risk of exceeding the cost. Since most of our team is using it as self serve and there is no continuous tracking by a dedicated team, it really needs time & effort on analyst's side to know how much it is going to cost.
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • It has ability to handle [a] huge [amount of] data and give [the] best performance
  • Easy to write PL/SQA queries
  • Secure and encryption option
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Amazon AWS
  • Our company is moving to the AWS infrastructure, and in this context moving the warehouse environments to Redshift sounds logical regardless of the cost.
  • Development organizations have to operate in the Dev/Ops mode where they build and support their apps at the same time.
  • Hard to estimate the overall ROI of moving to Redshift from my position. However, running Redshift seems to be inexpensive compared to all the licensing and hardware costs we had on our RDBMS platform before Redshift.
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