Share your experience using Oracle Database

The typical use case for Oracle Database is for stability, technical advantage, sophisticated technology, and database performance.

The return on investment with Oracle Database is good, providing high performance with the product. The system offers stability with no real outages, errors, or technical downtimes. In respect to these advantages, customers receive a return on their investment.

Oracle Database assists with AI initiatives by providing customers the chance for APEX, which is the low-code platform included in the database. This represents an additional return on investment.

The AI initiatives in Oracle Database represent a very promising direction. With 23 AI, there are many features and fundamentals, with vector search being the most important. These are instruments and tools that help customers improve their business and time to market. Additionally, using the OCI provides the possibility of KI or AI features. This improvement allows customers to have additional return on investment and strengthen their business opportunities.

Areas of Oracle Database that have room for improvement include the license policy. The product is good, but customers are concerned about the license policy, especially in virtualization in combination with VMware. There should be a solution. From technical perspectives, it meets most people's needs. Additionally, enterprise features should be made possible for Standard Edition, as clients would benefit from having access to some of these exclusive options and features.

I have worked with Oracle Database for almost 10 years, and our company has experience spanning over 25 years with Oracle Database.

In terms of scalability, Oracle Database allows for clusters and clustering capabilities, which means bringing several servers together to build a system. Scalability also extends to cloud usage where scaling up or down is possible within OCI. Oracle Database offers scalability both in OCI and on-premises.

The initial setup of Oracle Database is relatively easy with installation assistance and upgrade assistance.

For our customers, Oracle Database is mostly deployed on-premises in most cases.

Our clients are usually medium and large companies using Oracle Database.

I would recommend Oracle Database to others because Oracle is a world-leading company in databases. Oracle is data-driven and has cheap storage in the cloud, especially with AI features. Oracle Database is a strong competitor compared to other platforms.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Oracle Database a 10 out of 10.

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My customers use Oracle Database within their ERP system for various functions, including financial management, material management, planning management, production management, sales and distribution, and customer relationship management.

Oracle Database is easy to install, customize, troubleshoot, and maintain. Its data management capabilities include data quality, data integration, data architecture, modeling, and data security, which are very important for data-driven companies. Furthermore, Oracle Database's performance and scalability features meet workload demands, and its continuous updates improve performance and add valuable features.

Oracle Database needs improvement in data analytics capabilities, AI involvement, machine learning, and deep learning. It should handle unstructured data to enable building big data environments.

I have been working with Oracle Database for twenty-five years.

My experience with deploying Oracle Database is generally smooth. It takes about one day to install the database engine itself. The time to make it production-ready depends on the customer's data size, ranging from one day to a couple of weeks.

Oracle Database is very robust, and I rate its stability nine out of ten. However, stability depends on the hardware configuration, such as server features, single or double server, and data center availability.

I rate Oracle Database's scalability nine out of ten. The database regularly releases new versions with better performance and security features. However, no database can receive a perfect score as there are always improvements to be made.

Oracle's technical support is not very effective. Opening support tickets does not yield satisfactory results, whether dealing with Oracle directly or their regional partners.

Neutral

I rate the initial setup as eight out of ten. Although the setup is generally smooth, integration or localization issues, particularly regarding documentation, can occur.

When deploying Oracle Database, I follow the installation manual provided. The process depends on the operating system, such as Windows, Linux, or UNIX.

Pricing depends on the number of licenses required based on the number of active users. Although I cannot directly compare prices with Microsoft SQL, for medium businesses, Oracle and IBM DB2 pricing are quite similar. I rate Oracle's pricing six out of ten.

For medium businesses, I compare Oracle Database with IBM DB2. For large businesses, Oracle and DB2 are both considered.

I recommend Oracle Database for its valuable features and performance. I give the solution an overall rating of eight out of ten.

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