Arcserve UDP vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Arcserve and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Oracle is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.3. Arcserve holds a 1.2% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Oracle Data Guard compete in the data protection and disaster recovery category. Oracle Data Guard appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and reliability, although Arcserve UDP offers more competitive pricing.

Features: Arcserve UDP users find it comprehensive for data protection with features like ease of use, flexible recovery options, and integration with various platforms. Oracle Data Guard users value its high availability, automated failover capabilities, and data integrity. The advanced disaster recovery features of Oracle Data Guard make it stand out.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP could improve its reporting tools, offer a more intuitive setup process, and provide enhanced UI/UX. Oracle Data Guard needs better compatibility with non-Oracle environments, more streamlined patching procedures, and additional user-friendly documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP offers straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Oracle Data Guard has a more complex deployment process but provides excellent technical support and comprehensive documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is cost-effective with flexible licensing, leading to a good ROI. Oracle Data Guard is more expensive, but its advanced functionalities and reliability justify the cost and offer a high ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.2%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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TeresitaSabile

Head of Operation and IT at Elgrade Inc

Cost savings and efficient decompression but needs better cloud integration

Our primary use case for Arcserve UDP is its decompression feature, which helped us save money by reducing storage needs. Despite moving to cloud applications, we have been using Arcserve UDP for backup and disaster recovery Arcserve UDP has helped our organization save considerable amounts of…

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Azhagupandi Parthiban

Vice President Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers near-real-time replication for data consistency and continuously introducing new features through upgrades

There are various advantages. First of all, easy to deploy. The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. In other ways, the implementation is very, very important. Like, we have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product. Once you configure it, it goes through the rollback, and then Data Guard introduces this snapshot thing. So once the restoration happens, we can go back to the original thing, and we make that a standard. It's a pretty decent and key function for Oracle. So, enterprise organizations go for Oracle only for features like these.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."

"Arcserve has a feature called virtual standby (VSB), which has been very helpful because I already have a hot standby copy of my critical infrastructure. If something breaks, I can spin up that virtual standby copy in less than five minutes and ensure that my data is available to everyone and that business continuity is maintained."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."

"The product's deployment process was straightforward."

"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."

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"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."

"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."

"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."

"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."

"We have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product."

"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."

"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."

"The most valuable aspect for me is undoubtedly the failover capability and the assurance of data safety provided by Oracle Data Guard."

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Cons

"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."

"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."

"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."

"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."

"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

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"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."

"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."

"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."

"They may need to include the monitoring and the alerting part in Data Guard."

"The product could improve its pricing."

"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."

"The deployment cost is expensive."

"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

"The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution."

"The pricing is moderate."

"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."

"The price of this product is high and it should be lower."

"The solution is very expensive."

"We only have the maintenance of three standard UDP licenses. Each license is 50 Euro. There are some additional costs for the storage and software but it has nothing to do with the UDP."

"The price is based on the number of sockets. We use a four-socket price that includes two servers and the cost is $4,375."

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"It's a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"The cost is expensive."

"Oracle Data Guard is a feature available only in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and is available for extra cost."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Non Profit

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

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StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

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Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

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