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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Amazon Timestream

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Timestream

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.53.7
Review count90723
Ease of use9.08.6
Ease of setup9.08.1
Quality of support8.88.5
Meets requirements9.18.8
NPS66.16454219.047619
Small Business28.8%30.4%
Mid-Market37.5%43.5%
Enterprise33.7%26.1%
Total page views646150
Total LLM citations2,389240

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you up to focus on your apps so you can give them the better performance, availability, security, and compatibility they need. Amazon RDS is available on 6 familiar database instances: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database and SQL Server engines.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Scalability
  • Setup Ease
  • Security
  • Backup Services
  • Reliability

Amazon Timestream

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day at 1/10th the cost of relational databases. Driven by the rise of IoT devices, IT systems, and smart industrial machines, time-series data, data that measures how things change over time, is one of the fastest growing data types.

Pros

  • Reliability