Carbonite Server vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

OpenText and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. OpenText is ranked #44 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.3. OpenText holds a 0.6% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Carbonite Server

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100% willing to recommend

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Oracle Data Guard and Carbonite Server compete in the data protection and disaster recovery category. Oracle Data Guard has the upper hand due to its robust features and better ROI, while Carbonite Server stands out for ease of deployment and customer service.

Features: Oracle Data Guard offers high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection, which integrates well with Oracle environments. Carbonite Server features ease of use, cross-platform support, and automatic backups. Users find Oracle Data Guard's advanced data replication effective and note Carbonite Server's user-friendliness and versatility.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Data Guard needs simplification of setup and enhanced reporting tools. Carbonite Server needs better large-scale data transfer speeds and more comprehensive recovery options. Oracle's complexity and Carbonite's performance challenges are notable areas for development.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard's setup is complex and time-consuming, unlike Carbonite Server which is straightforward. Oracle Data Guard's customer service is less responsive compared to Carbonite's highly rated support, giving Carbonite an edge in user-friendliness and support quality.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard has higher setup costs but offers good ROI due to reliability and integration. Carbonite Server has lower initial costs and provides a balance of cost and functionality, although ROI might be lower in large-scale deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Carbonite Server

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

44th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (30th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

16th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Carbonite Server is 0.6%, up from 0.6% 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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Dale Dirkes

President at DIAD Consulting, Inc.

A simple, efficient, reliable product

The efficiency and convenience are excellent. The pricing is very good. It shows you what has been updated via little green dots. The solution is very automatic. I don't have to worry about it. It was easy to set up. Technical support has been helpful in the past. The solution has been problem-free.

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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

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is very stable."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

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

"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."

"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."

"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."

"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."

"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."

"The solution has been stable so far."

"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

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Cons

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"The initial setup is complex."

"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."

"The pricing of the solution is quite high. They should do what they can to bring it down so that it is more reasonable for customers like us."

"It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs."

"Oracle could be improved by the ability to manage it on the cloud. This on-premises version is secure and reliable, but I'm sure that they will soon provide a cloud solution that will be even better. In one to two years, we will probably move to the cloud—we have already moved to the cloud with Microsoft Exchange, but our databases are still on-premises. I would prefer managing a cloud version of Oracle."

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."

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

"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The solution is open source."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

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

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

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

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

"The cost is expensive."

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

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Carbonite Server?

I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable.

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What needs improvement with Carbonite Server?

The ability to perform instant recovery would be a game changer. For a large user base, the creation of user accounts at this time is a little cumbersome, there isn't any Single-Sign-On (SSO) integ...

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What is your primary use case for Carbonite Server?

I work for a managed services provider, and we supply the solution for various sized customers.

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

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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

We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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Also Known As

Carbonite Recover Backup

Active Data Guard

Overview

Carbonite Server securely replicates data to the local backup server while securing a second copy in the cloud. Granular restore and local failover options ensure rapid recovery and minimal data loss. With integrated hardware and cloud failover for critical systems, Carbonite Server provides reliable data protection.

OpenText

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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