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# Oracle Database vs Amazon RDS Features and Cost Comparison

Last updated September 16th, 2026

Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews  
moderated by our Reviews Verification team.[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/)

Your comparison:

Oracle DatabaseAmazon RDS2/4 selected

[Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/)[4.6 (473)](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/reviews/)

[Amazon RDS](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/)[4.7 (220)](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/)

[## Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/)[4.6 (473)](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/reviews/)

Starting Price

Contact vendor

Value-for-Money

4.1

Functionality

4.5

Ease of Use

4.1

Customer Service

4.2

Reviews Sentiment

Based on [473 reviews](#user-reviews)

Positive

443

Neutral

25

Negative

5

[## Amazon RDS](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/)[4.7 (220)](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/)

Starting Price

$0.01/month

Value-for-Money

4.3

Functionality

4.6

Ease of Use

4.4

Customer Service

4.4

Reviews Sentiment

Based on [220 reviews](#user-reviews)

Positive

216

Neutral

4

Negative

0

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## Summary

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Key features rated by users

Features selected based on 2,924 reviews from database software users.  
about the Fit Score methodology.

Fit Score methodology

Our Fit Score reflects how reviewers rate a product’s performance against a set of features reviewers rate as most important. A higher score indicates the product is rated better in delivering what reviewers most care about.

  

If the Fit Score is not shown for a specific product, that only means there are currently not enough relevant data points to develop a meaningful score. It does not indicate that the product should be excluded from further evaluation. Best for Methodology

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Missing features

Feature ratings

Secure Data Storage

NA

Backup and Recovery

4.5

Customizable Fields

NA

Data Storage Management

4.5

Real-Time Data

NA

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Missing features

Feature ratings

Secure Data Storage

NA

Backup and Recovery

4.6

Customizable Fields

NA

Data Storage Management

4.5

Real-Time Data

NA

User satisfaction

User satisfaction

4.6

User reviews[473](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/reviews/)

Ease of use

4.1

Functionality

4.5

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.2

User satisfaction

4.7

User reviews[220](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/reviews/)

Ease of use

4.4

Functionality

4.6

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.4

Price starts from

Price starts from

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-   Free version
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Price starts from

$0.01Per Feature, Per Month

-   Free version
-   Free trial

Best for

Best for

Oracle Database provides organizations with enterprise-scale database technology stored in the cloud or on premises.

Best for

Application developers, database administrators, system administrators, DevOps engineers

## User reviews

Pros & cons

JH

Julia H.

Administrative Assistant

> "The thing I like most about Oracle is that it is an electronic filing system and one place to house various documents."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7143100)

NdM

N'dea M.

Human Resources Technician

> "We have found many hiccups with trying to access reports, retrieving information for salaries, and obtaining accurate information..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7019709)

Jos� Enrique H.

Senior Advance Database Administrator

> "Another thing I like about the Oracle database is that the company has invested in creating not only one of the best databases on..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6531418)

Kenidra S.

Content Moderator

> "If you didn't enter your credentials correctly, the account would get locked."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7156588)

PG

Patric G.

Developer

> "By partitioning and dividing data sets, for example into 'annual tables', the system has enough performance to also enable complex..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6852453)

PG

Patric G.

Developer

> "It is clear that during such time periods, a large amount of information accumulates that cannot be accessed with a simple select."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6852453)

Jos� Enrique H.

Senior Advance Database Administrator

> "In all topics related to databases, such as, backup and restore, performance tuning, networking, core administration, storage..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6531418)

NdM

N'dea M.

Human Resources Technician

> "Compared to other platforms Oracle seems to be less user friendly."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7019709)

Jos� Enrique H.

Senior Advance Database Administrator

> "Due to this main features of the Oracle database, Oracle engineers have taken advantage of years of evolution and created a truly..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6531418)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Oracle Forms Developer

> "Not an open source , oracle always search for earning , Any tools using (SAP,FORMS BUILDER, APEX , ADF) from Oracle will get you..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4239718)

Kenidra S.

Content Moderator

> "I really liked the yubi key and biometric login for security."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7156588)

AT

Adam T.

Software Analysts

> "As drawback I must mention its price is very high"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6741450)

PG

Patric G.

Developer

> "Especially the SQL Developer has improved into a powerful tool for database administration and the creation of PL-SQL programs."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6852453)

SA

Sami A.

Software Developer

> "I had trouble installing the program on my laptop, as it is very complicated to install."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6101022)

PG

Patric G.

Developer

> "The possibility of running my own C/C++ programs within the database core is also very important to me."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6852453)

AK

Adarsh K.

IE Manager

> "Compared to the other DB in the market the Oracle DB is little user friendly and less sophisticated."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6234278)

William F.

Enterprise Architect - Security Architecture Practice Lead

> "Can handle large datasets and heavy workloads; making it ideal for enterprises with growing data needs also is renowned for its..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6480830)

MS

Madhusudan S.

Software Engineer

> "As it's not an open-source database, we will always have to pay up front when putting a small-scale application into place."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4608479)

AK

Arshpreet K.

Assisttant Manager

> "Backup run clean, export file no mess, report gen solid even peak time."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6851124)

Romaric S.

Web Designer

> "I think the pricing options are more enterprise-oriented and in most cases can't be suitable for small or low-budget companies."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579416)

NdM

N'dea M.

Human Resources Technician

> "Which is helpful and eliminates a lot of the tedious."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7019709)

TN

Teran N.

software engineer

> "It takes lot memory and CPU power and that makes my old laptop slower."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4708070)

JC

Juan C.

Financial analysts

> "What I like the most about oracle database is the ease of use as well as the great customer support."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7107831)

Amit S.

Executive

> "The documentation is also not that great and always needs third-party support for the resolution."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4140127)

IA

Ileana A.

Accounts Receivable Specialist

> "I liked that the system offered a convenient way to view all of your customer data and it was easy to navigate the system as a..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6387383)

VR

Verified Reviewer

software Engineer

> "No user can complaint us about slowness or any kind of performance degradations."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4428362)

SA

Sami A.

Software Developer

> "It provides top-notch security and that is why the banking sector mostly uses Oracle as there is a back end database."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6101022)

Anastasiia M.

Customer Service Representative

> "As a person with non technical background I found it hard to use. Although there are quite a lot materials to learn (tutorials,..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3896383)

MS

Maha S.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

> "Moreover, JDBC drivers allow seamless integrations and very high performance when using Java to connect to the database on the..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4903564)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Business Analyst

> "In addition to having a very expensive license. When you work with a very large database, sometimes it ends the connection because..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3550154)

AT

Adam T.

Software Analysts

> "I have worked on many projects with Oracle Database, and I mean it’s a great solution"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6741450)

TN

Teran N.

software engineer

> "As a drawback what I see is the resource consumption of the tool."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4708070)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

> "In Built Data Movement tools like Export and Import Data Pump, which help is secured Data copy4.Java Support is the key feature..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579865)

VR

Verified Reviewer

software Engineer

> "Earlier we were on mysql, but we are not getting good performance."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4428362)

SH

Samuel H.

DBA

> "The world's most potent characteristics include data auditing, backup and recovery, data encryption, as well as the capability for..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4398966)

¿¿¿¿ Gabriel B.

SAP Manager

> "Unfortunately, for a few years SAP has been slowly transitioning out other databases as their most recent version of the ERP works..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3563515)

SB

SREEREKHA B.

Senior Developer

> "Very good and it is very efficient to use and manage for the data."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6824721)

SH

Samuel H.

DBA

> "Oracle is not Windows operating system friendly."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4398966)

WI

Wassim I.

Associate Professor

> "Customer support was amazing in addition to the vast amount of resources available online to tackle almost any issue in..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4863638)

Anastasiia M.

Customer Service Representative

> "many of these materials are of bad quality."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3896383)

MS

Maha S.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

> "Oracle Database has been my number one choice when teaching enterprise application development. Although it is a bit heavy and not..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4903564)

Amit S.

Executive

> "The cost of the software is not affordable."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4140127)

SS

Seejal S.

Senior Systems Engineer

> "Best in the market for data storage, analytics, migration."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6078584)

SP

Sapnaka P.

Software Engineer

> "The cost and resource consumption is high."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4799014)

AR

Aiovino R.

ICT Manager

> "The establishment of a data back up makes the application reliable and assertive."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6209495)

Serhat C.

Senior Software Developer

> "I've been using it for years and I've never encountered a feature that I don't like at all."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4895735)

SP

Sapnaka P.

Software Engineer

> "I have used oracle database mainly because of its scalability and high performance and because of that, it can handle high..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4799014)

MF

Maizy F.

Music Director

> "It's hard to keep the nuances straight, and thus there's a learning curb to getting the syntax correct. "

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3666343)

VR

Verified Reviewer

IT Support

> "What i like most about Oracle Data base is the data base is more secure and easy to recall"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___6063311)

RO

Rachel O.

Data Scientist

> "The software also crashes occasionally, which was frustrating. If you are working on an already overtaxed system, be aware and save..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2717600)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Assistant Director IT

> "its is good for large enterprises with high performance and mission critical business applications, specially for oracle related..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3969257)

Gustav R.

Busines Consultant

> "Had some problems connecting to different databases often."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3487464)

Romaric S.

Web Designer

> "Oracle Database helps us to deploy our apps (and even clients') to clouds with more flexibility."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579416)

MF

Maizy F.

Music Director

> "This is more an annoyance overall, and not specific to Oracle - just note, that it's different then MySQL."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3666343)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

> "Robust Data Backup and recovery Options is the major capability of Oracle2."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579865)

YK

Yoshiomi K.

Member

> "Just running the installer is not enough to update."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3759336)

MS

Maha S.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

> "Using Oracle with Java based technologies was definitely a very compatible option that simplifies and speeds up the development..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4903564)

CHMC

Carlos Hugo Martin C.

Consultor

> "Database administration can become more complex than it should."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3270740)

NB

Neha B.

Senior Manager

> "Also, it is one of the best databases from the integration standpoint as it allows one to make REST calls to perform CRUD..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3821439)

GC

Gene C.

Retired

> "The company I worked for had budgeted $500,000 for the conversion from old database to Oracle. When I left them that budget had..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2779954)

Joel B.

Administrative Secretary

> "The database contains robust security mechanisms to guarantee data privacy which is important to us."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4666197)

AU

Arslan U.

CEO

> "Secondly, it overindulges when its about resources and starves other processes thus needing expensive servers with more resources."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2817893)

Arturo P.

Deputy Director of Marketing and Direct Segment Liaison

> "It is also compatible with various different platforms and the best thing about Oracle is the connectivity feature. Besides that we..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4348875)

MaB

Melikşah B.

Software Engineer

> "somehow it fails or cant acces it was really hard to solve problem about it."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3731205)

Amit S.

Executive

> "The Forms and SQLFORMS are elementary and effective for screen design."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4140127)

OA

Osuavareghe A.

Technical Instructor

> "Oracle DBMS may not be the right choice for a small organization just starting if they do not have enough money to purchase its..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2460482)

Romaric S.

Web Designer

> "Its infrastructural capacities are extremely reliable and the company provides adequate security measures too."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579416)

E

En Ü.

Senior Software Engineer

> "It's too expensive for a small companies."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3688374)

BW

Bradley W.

Architect

> "A super product with a large suite of options for any database related deployments"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4871086)

E

En Ü.

Senior Software Engineer

> "Even for big companies have trouble to buy it."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3688374)

WI

Wassim I.

Associate Professor

> "We developed a lot of Java-based desktop/enterprise applications with Oracle in the back-end."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4863638)

AY

Austin Y.

Software Engineer

> "It's pricing is also rather expensive."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3233420)

Arturo P.

Deputy Director of Marketing and Direct Segment Liaison

> "What I love the most about this tool is that Oracle database is quite efficient and high performance database program."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4348875)

SN

SIVASHANKARAN N.

solution architect

> "Maintaining tables with terabytes/petabytes is costly."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2980307)

Romaric S.

Web Designer

> "It offers premium cutting-edge cloud database technologies for any business level."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4579416)

Talha A.

Asdidtant Manager finance

> "PL/SQL is very senstive language and its resources persons are highly paid.secondly its license is much expensive."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2437764)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Senior Automation Engineer

> "Easily understandable queries makes it easy to use , it provides good visual database design tools such as workbench."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4625196)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Software Engineer

> "It does not support multiple nodes cluster kind of architecture."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___2423480)

SH

Samuel H.

DBA

> "To scale how good is a database product, it will be placed in front of Oracle database and compare with it"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4398966)

Gustav R.

Busines Consultant

> "Very old design."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3487464)

NdM

N'dea M.

Human Resources Technician

> "Which is helpful and eliminates a lot of the tedious."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___7019709)

SH

Samuel H.

DBA

> "Oracle is not Windows operating system friendly."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4398966)

Amit S.

Executive

> "The Forms and SQLFORMS are elementary and effective for screen design."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___4140127)

Gustav R.

Busines Consultant

> "Very old design."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#Capterra___3487464)

[View Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/reviews/)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Software Engineer

> "One of the best thing about it is that no configuration & setup required in order to work with any database, it could be relational or non..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6689104)

Prateek G.

Senior Software Engineer

> "there is not a great way to enable encryption if you started of with an unencrypted database."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___7074934)

Monica G.

Cloud Engineer

> "The multiple writers for Aurora is helpful to latency for global traffic."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6829851)

RR

Richard R.

IT Support Analyst

> "On the odd occasion, we have had trouble diagnosing a performance issue, and access/management control."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6822874)

Muhammad Aamer K.

Full stack software developer

> "I like some of the things the most about amazon RDS no 1 obviously the pricing it is amazing you only get charged for your usage and then secondly..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6052168)

AN

Alessandro N.

administrator

> "some problems occoured in our management software while using program"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6262230)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Software Engineer

> "With just a few clicks, you can easily add or remove database instances, adjust computing resources, and automatically scale your database as your..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4655341)

RC

RYAN C.

Strategic Account Manager

> "Dashboard was confusing as there was so many options."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6081214)

AA

Adebayo A.

Software Engineer

> "Amazon RDS provides all features of a modern RDMS and it takes it further by securing your RDS instance using IAM which improves access and security."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4365880)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Software Engineer

> "One bad thing is that developers have limited control over the underlying infrastructure and configuration."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4655341)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Developer

> "Amazon RDS has a lot of great features, what I like the most is that how easy it is to manage a database in Amazon RDS. And also Amazon RDS keeps..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4405208)

SN

Samuel N.

IT manager

> "Affected by system crashes which May result in data loss"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4789586)

NL

Nir L.

VP R&D, DevOps & Product

> "Overall we are very pleased with RDS for MySQL and it have proved a good solution for running MySQL in the cloud."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#GetApp___5070943)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Director, Internet Strategy

> "It's not amazingly easy to update the various variables that enable you to configure your mySQL instance. "

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___3505909)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Senior Software Engineer

> "I have used Amazon RDS with all kind of databases and the way it optimizes costs and provides integration to logs is amazing."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4295608)

Aleksandr S.

Principal software engineer

> "Their Enterprise Support can not understand why metrics extracted from DB itself do not meet billing metrics and will endlessly redirect you to yet..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2789750)

Monica G.

Cloud Engineer

> "The service is reliable."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6829851)

ZG

Zev G.

Senior Manager

> "I worry about policy makers who are willing to police what information can be shown on a hosted site and what they may disagree with in the future."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2705326)

Menka T.

Software engineer analyst

> "Amazon RDS is easy to use .It helps to maintain the relational database in the cloud."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___6144453)

MK

Mahesh K.

Lead Analyst

> "the system is not responsive for scale down, it never scale down to 0"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2840417)

RJ

Rehan J.

Software Engineer

> "It automatically backs up data and we can restore our data even if we lost it."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___4816800)

Aleksandr S.

Principal software engineer

> "It will literally eat 7/8 of your infrastructure budget."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2789750)

Ana A.

Security Architecture Discipline leader

> "With a managed database server, almost everything can be configured by just operating the configuration screen, so it is recommended that even..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___3671296)

VR

Verified Reviewer

Supervisor

> "maybe the price it was very difficult to convince the marketing area to check it up"

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2834296)

David W.

Head of Engineering

> "We use Amazon RDS to manage our key production/transactional databases for our customer-facing applications as well as our development environment,..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___3480502)

Aleksandr S.

Principal software engineer

> "Support is very poor."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2789750)

David W.

Head of Engineering

> "AWS RDS allows us to deploy databases easily and efficiently with great resilience, scalability, and security - but without having to deal with..."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___3480502)

Aleksandr S.

Principal software engineer

> "Support is very poor."

[See full review](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#Capterra___2789750)

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## User interface

[Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/)

4.55 (473)

[Amazon RDS](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/)

4.70 (220)

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### Features

Do these products fit your needs?

Prioritize real-user-identified key features according to your needs to find your best fit.

\--% Fit

vs

\--% Fit

Access Controls/Permissions

207

Important

Activity Dashboard

150

Important

Ad hoc Query

120

Important

Oracle Database

12/48

-   Access Controls/Permissions
-   Activity Dashboard
-   Ad hoc Query
-   AI Copilot
-   API
-   Audit Management
-   Authentication
-   Automatic Backup
-   Backup and Recovery
-   Calendar Management
-   Charting
-   Customizable Fields
-   Customizable Templates
-   Database Conversion
-   Data Capture and Transfer
-   Data Connectors
-   Data Dictionary Management
-   Data Encryption
-   Data Extraction
-   Data Import/Export
-   Data Mapping
-   Data Migration
-   Data Modeling
-   Data Replication
-   Data Storage Management
-   Data Synchronization
-   Data Virtualization
-   Data Visualization
-   Document Storage
-   Drag & Drop
-   Full Text Search
-   Generative AI
-   Mobile Access
-   Multiple Programming Languages Supported
-   Multi-User Environment
-   NOSQL Database Management
-   Performance Analysis
-   Real-Time Data
-   Real-Time Monitoring
-   Relational Database Management
-   Reporting & Statistics
-   Search/Filter
-   Secure Data Storage
-   SSL Security
-   Third-Party Integrations
-   User Access Control
-   User Management
-   Workflow Management

[See all features](https://www.capterra.com/p/5938/Oracle-Database/#features)

Amazon RDS

Top features

15/48

-   Access Controls/Permissions
-   Activity Dashboard
-   Ad hoc Query
-   AI Copilot
-   API
-   Audit Management
-   Authentication
-   Automatic Backup
-   Backup and Recovery
-   Calendar Management
-   Charting
-   Customizable Fields
-   Customizable Templates
-   Database Conversion
-   Data Capture and Transfer
-   Data Connectors
-   Data Dictionary Management
-   Data Encryption
-   Data Extraction
-   Data Import/Export
-   Data Mapping
-   Data Migration
-   Data Modeling
-   Data Replication
-   Data Storage Management
-   Data Synchronization
-   Data Virtualization
-   Data Visualization
-   Document Storage
-   Drag & Drop
-   Full Text Search
-   Generative AI
-   Mobile Access
-   Multiple Programming Languages Supported
-   Multi-User Environment
-   NOSQL Database Management
-   Performance Analysis
-   Real-Time Data
-   Real-Time Monitoring
-   Relational Database Management
-   Reporting & Statistics
-   Search/Filter
-   Secure Data Storage
-   SSL Security
-   Third-Party Integrations
-   User Access Control
-   User Management
-   Workflow Management

[See all features](https://www.capterra.com/p/192201/Amazon-RDS/#features)

### Recognition

Oracle Database

Best Value Backup Software (2023) 

No recognitions have been awarded to Amazon RDS

### Deployment & support

Oracle Database

Deployment

-   Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
-   Desktop Mac
-   Desktop Windows
-   Desktop Linux
-   On-Premise Windows
-   On-Premise Linux
-   Desktop Chromebook
-   Mobile Android
-   Mobile iPhone
-   Mobile iPad

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Amazon RDS

Deployment

-   Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
-   Desktop Mac
-   Desktop Windows
-   Desktop Linux
-   On-Premise Windows
-   On-Premise Linux
-   Desktop Chromebook
-   Mobile Android
-   Mobile iPhone
-   Mobile iPad

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

### Company Details

Oracle Database

-   By Oracle
-   Located in United States
-   Founded in 1977

Amazon RDS

-   By Amazon Web Services (AWS)
-   Located in United States
-   Founded in 2006

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