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SimpleDB vs. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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

MetricSimpleDB

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.14.5
Review count51907
Ease of use8.79.0
Ease of setup8.79.0
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS42.85714366.164542
Small Business35.3%28.8%
Mid-Market25.5%37.5%
Enterprise39.2%33.7%
Total page views32646
Total LLM citations22,389

SimpleDB

SimpleDB is a highly available and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.

Pros

  • Innovation
  • Customer Support
  • Cloud Storage
  • Ease of Use
  • Speed
  • Features

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