Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Oracle Database

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Database

1,185 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon RDS	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.	N/A
Oracle Database	Score8 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.	$0.05 per hour

Pricing

Amazon RDS

Oracle Database

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: $0.24 ($0.48)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB: $0.25 ($0.50)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MySQL: $0.29 ($0.58)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for Oracle: $0.482 ($0.964)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: $1.02 ($1.52)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Oracle Base Database Service - Standard: $0.0538
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise: $0.1075
per hour
Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance: $0.2218
per hour
Standard Edition: Contact Sales
Enterprise Edition: Contact Sales
Personal Edition: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDS	Oracle Database
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon RDS	Oracle Database
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Rohan Kumar Software Engineer in Information Technology at Mytechcasa (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Database can be challenging, especially for people who are new to Oracle products. Longer learning curves and higher operational overhead can be caused by this complexity. Amazon Relational Database Service is easy to understand and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Oracle Autonomous Database is designed for Oracle Database workloads, making it suitable for organizations with existing Oracle investments. RDS supports various database engines. Autonomy and Automation: Oracle Autonomous Database places a strong emphasis on automation for … Incentivized Helpful? Charlie Matar Full Stack Engineer in Engineering at JP3 Measurement, LLC (Chemicals, 201-500 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Oracle Database can be more expensive in comparison to Amazon RDS. This may be because of licensing fees. Installation can be a bit messy and take longer than necessary. The user interface could also use some work when compared to Amazon RDS. Some companies will need a DBA to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS In a few words, we are just to confortable working with oracle and sql server. Using RDS add another layer of distributed database in order to backup everything we have in case of a disaster and also complies with authorities locally and internacionally. All database we use, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Earlier we were using the Azure Ecosystem but we faced some issues in DevOps side so we decided to migrate towards some other reliable infra so we migrated all our engines, RDS and other services to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and from that time we are using this. … Incentivized Helpful? Salam Mohammed Product Solution Architect in Information Technology at NeoSoft Technologies Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Every traditional rational Database requires server installation & accessing needs to be monitored periodically manually. But Amazon provides easy-to-access and monitor health and scale-up and scale-down option just by clicks without adding any additional hardware. Incentivized Helpful? Manthan Dhola Solutions Architect in Professional Services at BIDAYA TECH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS amazon provides wide range of support for multiple database engines so we dont have to look for any other providers integration with aws ecosystem so we can seemlessly use other aws services connected to database aws have data points globally so it if data needs to be in … Incentivized Helpful? Mukhtar Ahmad Ganayee Principal Consultant DBA at Genpact LLC in Information Technology at Genpact (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS Hardware difference compared with Normal Database on physical servers Incentivized Helpful? Sunny Hemnani Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Coditas (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS It's very easy to maintain & deploy Amazon RDS instances as compared to other cloud providers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS [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, … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle No answer on this topic
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	Oracle Database
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	9.0 (178 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	7.4 (5 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	7.0 (5 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.6 (3 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)