Oracle MySQL Cloud Service

Score7.1 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is Oracle MySQL Cloud Service?

Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is an enterprise-grade database-as-a-service (including automated database management) offering of MySQL.

Categories & Use Cases

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

Database security provisions
Provision for database encryption, network isolation, and identity access management
Category average: 8.8
Automated backups
Automated backup enabling point-in-time data recovery
Category average: 8
Monitoring and metrics
Built-in monitoring of multiple operational metrics
Category average: 6.8

Automatic software patching
Patches applied to database automatically
Category average: 8.3
Database scalability
Ease of scaling compute or memory resources and storage up or down
Category average: 9.2
Automatic host deployment
Compute instance replacement in the event of hardware failure
Category average: 6.8

Consultant in Professional Services at Capgemini (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

MySQL, Microsoft Access and IBM Cloud Databases

Other Software Used

Microsoft Access, MySQL, Sequel Pro

Microsoft Access

Amazon Redshift

Google Cloud SQL