Cloud database comparison: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle | TechTarget
Summary
The available offerings in the database market have expanded significantly and now include dozens of cloud-based products that range from general-purpose ones to different purpose-built DBMS platforms designed to meet a specific set of application requirements. Based on those criteria, heres an assessment of the cloud DBMS technologies offered by AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle -- the four top DBaaS and DWaaS vendors, as ranked by consulting firm Gartner in a report published in December 2023. Depending on the DBMS, AWS charges customers based on region, server vs. serverless configurations, CPU, memory, disk, I/O rates, backup storage and data transfers out of its cloud platform. Although Google might not offer the multitude of compute, memory and storage configuration options that its competitors do, customers are still able to select a set of resource allocations at different pricing levels to meet their data processing needs. For dedicated infrastructure, it has hourly pricing based on the number of allocated Oracle CPUs (OCPUs), an older processor metric that represents the physical CPU cores in a system.
