Amazon Redshift vs Oracle Database comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Oracle are both solutions in the Database Management Systems (DBMS) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 4.3% mindshare in DBMS, compared to Oracle’s 22.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Amazon Redshift

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87% willing to recommend

Oracle Database

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92% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and Oracle Database based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Database Management Systems (DBMS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Database

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.0

Some entities quickly achieved cost savings and ROI, while others face challenges with optimization and evaluating benefits.

Sentiment score

5.7

Organizations experience good long-term ROI with Oracle Database, despite high initial costs, especially in high-traffic financial sectors.

We earned back our investment in Amazon Redshift within the first year.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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It saved a lot of money and time because of the debugging peculiarities and also using Toad for Oracle software to optimize the coding and performance of data migration.

Philemon Olusegun

Qhse Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.8

Amazon Redshift support is efficient yet costly, praised for documentation, but phone contact and complex issue resolution face delays.

Sentiment score

6.1

Oracle Database's customer service receives mixed reviews, highlighting responsiveness but concerns about response times and global support.

Whenever we need support, if there is an issue accessing stored data due to regional data center problems, the Amazon team is very helpful and provides optimal solutions quickly.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

Documentation that allows anyone with prior knowledge of Redshift or SQL to resolve technical issues.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

It's costly when you enable support.

RiteshPurbey

Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA

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In some cases, they support me on a 24/7 basis, round the clock.

Muhammad Usman Muzaffar

Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

Oracle support can improve both response time and quality, including not only response time but also the turnaround time for issue fixing, understanding the issue, routing it to the correct team, and debugging for resolution.

SureshKumar2

DB A Competency Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The customer support of Oracle Database is excellent and provides detailed assistance.

Philemon Olusegun

Qhse Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Amazon Redshift is highly scalable with flexible cluster adjustments, despite some challenges at larger scales and heavy loads.

Sentiment score

7.4

Oracle Database is highly scalable, adaptable for growth, though its licensing model may impact scalability costs.

The scalability part needs improvement as the sizing requires trial and error.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

We have successfully increased our storage space, which was a smooth process without server crashes before or after scaling.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The database regularly releases new versions with better performance and security features.

Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

RAC is the feature where I can distribute the load among multiple nodes, and it has helped our enterprise applications.

Muhammad Usman Muzaffar

Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.3

Opinions on Amazon Redshift's stability vary, with some praising reliability and others noting issues in large clusters or maintenance.

Sentiment score

8.0

Oracle Database is stable, reliable, handles vast data with minimal downtime, and is trusted for critical applications requiring data integrity.

Amazon Redshift is a stable product, and I would rate it nine or ten out of ten for stability.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Database is very robust, and I rate its stability nine out of ten.

Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

I would rate stability for Oracle Database as a 10.

SureshKumar2

DB A Competency Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oracle is really one of the biggest database software companies in the world.

Philemon Olusegun

Qhse Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

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Room For Improvement

Amazon Redshift users face challenges with performance, integration, cost, and features, preferring improved solutions like Snowflake's offerings.

Oracle Database needs improved tools, cost-effective licensing, better support, easier setup, and enhanced integration with modern technologies.

They should bring the entire ETL data management process into Amazon Redshift.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

Integration with AI could be a good improvement.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

Integration with AI features could elevate its capabilities and popularity.

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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Having that visibility of all the software products and providing free training and documentation on how you can improve and which products are best suited for integration to your product from Oracle would go a long way to help organizations and professionals.

Philemon Olusegun

Qhse Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Database needs improvement in data analytics capabilities, AI involvement, machine learning, and deep learning.

Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

One existing feature that distinguishes Oracle Database from others is its ability to log errors in the database itself.

Praful Kolekar

Business Analyst at Tata Consultancy

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Setup Cost

Amazon Redshift offers mid-to-high pricing, seen as reasonable due to its scalability and potential cost-effectiveness compared to competitors.

Oracle Database is robust but expensive, with high licensing costs, prompting small businesses to seek cheaper alternatives.

The cost of technical support is high.

RiteshPurbey

Senior Analyst at ESRI INDIA

It's a pretty good price and reasonable for the product quality.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

The pricing of Amazon Redshift is expensive.

reviewer1099677

Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

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For medium businesses, Oracle and IBM DB2 pricing are quite similar.

Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

Oracle Database is costly.

Muhammad Usman Muzaffar

Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

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Valuable Features

Amazon Redshift offers scalability, fast queries, AWS integration, flexibility, security, cost-effectiveness, easy setup, and compatibility for complex data management.

Oracle Database is preferred for its robust security, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, and integration capabilities.

Amazon Redshift's performance optimization and scalability are quite helpful, providing functionalities such as scaling up and down.

PraveenJagadeesan

Data Analytics, Ai & Automation Lead at a venture capital & private equity firm with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is also a strong point; I can scale it however I want without any limitations.

reviewer1099677

Co-Founder, Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The specific features of Amazon Redshift that are beneficial for handling large data sets include fast retrieval due to cloud services and scalability, which allows us to retrieve data quickly.

Pavan Kum

Analyst at Cepstrum(EEE Students Society), IIT Guwahati

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Its data management capabilities include data quality, data integration, data architecture, modeling, and data security, which are very important for data-driven companies.

Ismail Aboulezz

Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb

Regarding what I value about Oracle Database, as far as execution is concerned, I think it is one of the best databases I have come across.

Praful Kolekar

Business Analyst at Tata Consultancy

The most valuable features in WebLogic Suite are its stability and security.

Muhammad Usman Muzaffar

Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Redshift

Ranking in Database Management Systems (DBMS)

8th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (9th)

Oracle Database

Ranking in Database Management Systems (DBMS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

294

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Database Management Systems (DBMS) category, the mindshare of Amazon Redshift is 4.3%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Database is 22.7%, up from 20.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Management Systems (DBMS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Database	22.7%
Amazon Redshift	4.3%
Other	73.0%

Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Featured Reviews

Hemanthreddy Vakiti

Data engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Optimized restaurant analytics has driven faster insights and streamlined daily reporting

Amazon Redshift offers massive parallel processing capability, allowing it to handle millions of records, along with integration with other AWS features such as S3 and QuickSight. The column-level storage supports high performance and easy data retrieval compared to other tools. The integration with S3 has helped my team immensely since S3 is our starting source, and the direct integration with Amazon Redshift simplifies the transformation and loading process. Columnar storage has benefited our performance significantly, allowing us to extract specific rows from tables with years of data much faster than other tools with row-level storage. Amazon Redshift has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving query performance and speed. Features such as easy integration with S3 allow us to process millions of records efficiently, ultimately saving us nearly one hour per day for our project.

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Philemon Olusegun

Qhse Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Reliable backups and high-capacity data management have transformed large-scale census projects

When it comes to how Oracle Database can be improved, for me it is all about training and development in terms of gamification, creating awareness, and spreading the word to aspiring database administrators and database developers. As I have used it in the past and in recent times, many people are trying to get into IT, so the opportunity exists. Oracle has the market opportunity to take this time to spread its offerings and ensure that many aspiring professionals are aware of its services and products. From my perspective, there is not much to add regarding the needed improvements for the interface and the documentation. I give it a nine because I think Oracle sometimes can make things complicated. You have many services, many products, and many tools for different use cases. So it is difficult for someone who is only used to a particular product, such as Oracle Database, to understand all the other products and services that it provides. Probably streamlining it and making it available with categorized use cases for specific job roles would help. If you are a database developer, these are the tools that you need to be familiar with in Oracle's suite of products, and if you are a database administrator, these are the tools. Categorizing them based on the job role or function of people who are accessing these products and providing training capabilities on how to use them and how these products interchange and talk to each other would be very important because that is one of the things I struggled with when I started my journey as an Oracle Database administrator. Having that visibility of all the software products and providing free training and documentation on how you can improve and which products are best suited for integration to your product from Oracle would go a long way to help organizations and professionals. Regarding Oracle Database's AI capabilities, I am very keen on its governance and security. I think more work needs to be done on the security and ensuring that the database for a large number of people is watertight. AI is here to stay; however, governance and more stress testing of the AI capabilities needs to be done to ensure there is no breach of data. I would rate it currently at 6 over 10 and there is room for improvement. As long as there are government policies and Oracle policies that can mitigate any breaches of data and serious security issues, releasing people's records over the internet, there is always room for improvement in that regard.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Construction Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	87
Midsize Enterprise	66
Large Enterprise	180

Questions from the Community

How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?

Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different dat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?

My experience with pricing and setup cost is satisfactory, as we have been loyal clients of Amazon since the beginning of our organization. However, I am not aware of the exact costs associated wit...

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What needs improvement with Amazon Redshift?

Amazon Redshift could improve by enhancing its UI to be more user-friendly for non-technical users and by offering better cost management, as similar tools tend to be less expensive. Additionally, ...

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How do you run Oracle Database at your organization and why?

My company has been using Oracle Exadata Database Service for some years now, and we are happy with it. I will allow myself to answer your questions about why and what benefits it provides us with ...

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Do you know of any disadvantages of Oracle Database?

Undoubtedly, Oracle Database is a top product in its category. But it does have its disadvantages, and for me and my organization, that has been the limitations of the product. When it comes to Ora...

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What is the best use for Oracle Database?

Oracle Database is flexible and can be used for many things. My company's main use case for this product is for storing data. We benefit from its high level of security as well as from the fact tha...

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Comparisons

Snowflake vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 13% of the time

Teradata vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 8% of the time

Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 7% of the time

Amazon EMR vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 6% of the time

IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud vs Amazon Redshift

Compared 5% of the time

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SAP HANA vs Oracle Database

Compared 21% of the time

SQL Server vs Oracle Database

Compared 8% of the time

IBM Db2 Database vs Oracle Database

Compared 6% of the time

Teradata vs Oracle Database

Compared 6% of the time

MySQL vs Oracle Database

Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

Amazon Redshift is a dynamic data warehousing and analytics platform offering scalability and seamless AWS integration for high-performance query processing and diverse data management.

Amazon Redshift provides robust data integration capabilities with AWS services like S3 and QuickSight, enabling efficient data warehousing and analytics. It is known for fast query performance due to its columnar storage and can handle diverse file formats. With a user-friendly SQL interface, Redshift supports data compression and offers a strong cost-performance ratio. Its secure VPC configurations and compatibility with data science tools enhance its functionality, although there is room for improving snapshot restoration, dynamic scaling, and processing large datasets.

What are the key features of Amazon Redshift?

Scalability: Allows growth with business needs, accommodating increasing data volumes.
Massive Parallel Processing: Speeds up query performance through parallel data processing.
Seamless AWS Integration: Connects smoothly with services like S3 and QuickSight for enhanced functionality.
Columnar Storage: Enhances query performance by storing data in columns.
User-friendly SQL Interface: Simplifies data query and manipulation.
Data Compression: Efficiently compresses data to reduce storage costs.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Cost-Performance Ratio: Offers competitive pricing with high processing efficiency.
Fast Query Performance: Delivers quick data retrieval and processing speeds.
Security Features: Ensures data security through VPC configurations.
Integration Flexibility: Easily integrates with data science tools and BI platforms.

In industries, Amazon Redshift is essential for managing extensive datasets for business intelligence, operational insights, and reporting. It supports data integration from ERPs and S3, handles SQL queries for comprehensive analysis, and facilitates data storage and transformation. Companies use it for predictive modeling and connect with BI tools like Tableau and Power BI to derive actionable insights.

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Oracle Database is renowned for its reliability, scalability, and performance, delivering high availability and security. It integrates seamlessly with other systems, providing exceptional data protection and backup, suitable for managing multiple applications and supporting large datasets.

Oracle Database offers a powerful platform for managing data across industries such as finance, manufacturing, and agriculture. It is particularly beneficial for ERP systems, data warehouses, and transactional processing. Users can harness advanced security measures, automation, and integration capabilities, though high pricing and complex licensing can deter smaller enterprises. The database's flexible yet intricate setup process requires advanced skills, while limited integration with other databases and cloud platforms can be a drawback. User interface improvements, along with enhancements in query optimization and support services, are areas for potential development.

What are Oracle Database's key features?

Reliability and Scalability: Delivers consistent performance and can handle increasing workloads.
High Availability: Features like Data Guard ensure database uptime and disaster recovery.
Advanced Security: Protects sensitive data with robust security measures.
Seamless Integration: Works well with existing systems and applications.
Data Management: Supports large datasets and complex computations for varied applications.

What benefits can users expect?

Security: Offers comprehensive data protection mechanisms.
Scalability: Easily adapts to changing data processing needs.
Performance: Provides strong transactional and analytical processing capabilities.
Flexibility: Supports diverse applications, from CRM to e-commerce.
Disaster Recovery: Ensures continuity with reliable backup solutions.

Industries like finance, manufacturing, and agriculture utilize Oracle Database for its ability to handle extensive transactions and data analyses. It's essential for ERP systems, supporting CRM, e-commerce, and healthcare applications with its robust infrastructure and disaster recovery options. Despite its challenges in pricing and complexity, it remains a top choice for organizations requiring reliable and high-performing databases.

Oracle

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