Dell Avamar vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Dell Technologies and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Dell Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Oracle is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.3. Dell Technologies holds a 3.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Dell Avamar

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87% willing to recommend

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

Dell Avamar

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Dell Avamar and Oracle Data Guard compete in the backup and disaster recovery solutions category. Data Guard has superior features and user ratings, making it worth the higher price, while Avamar leads in pricing and support satisfaction.

Features: Avamar users value deduplication, efficient backup capabilities, and lower costs. Data Guard users highlight real-time data protection, high availability, and superior performance.

Room for Improvement: Avamar users seek better scalability, integration with other systems, and advanced features. Data Guard users want improved ease of use, better documentation, and simpler configurations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Avamar is praised for straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. Data Guard's initial setup is complex, but it has effective customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Avamar users are content with its pricing and see quick ROI. Data Guard users find it pricier but justify the cost with superior performance.

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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:

Categories and Ranking

Dell Avamar

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (5th)

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 Dell Avamar is 3.3%, down from 3.6% 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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Ayodeji Oyewole

Managing Director at Atlantic factorial

Reliable with good backups but has occasional failures

I use Dell Avamar primarily for backup and recovery The most valuable feature for me is the backup functionality. It gives large enterprises the comfort of knowing their workloads are being backed up. There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be…

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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

"We've been using this solution to backup our servers. It is a simple backup and restore data application."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The product is good for backups."

"We have a lot of backups, and this tool helps us with the RMAN Backup."

"Its deduplication technologies are the best in the market, currently."

"The solution integrates well with Unix, Windows, Hyper-V and VM."

"The most valuable feature for me is the backup functionality."

"So far, Avamar covers everything we want. We are replicating to other sites for disaster recovery, so it's working well for us."

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"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."

"The solution is really very stable. One good thing about it, compared to other products, is that you can just run it and forget about it. Unless you come across some interruptions in the network, it works like a charm."

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

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

"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

"The solution can scale as needed."

"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."

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

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Cons

"Reporting in Dell Avamar needs improvement. The current reporting tool is very basic, and you have to dig deep into each function to get the information you need. For example, getting the status of failed and succeeded backups is very difficult in Avamar compared to Veeam. As for additional functionality, I would suggest improving WAN optimization. It's very important for getting offline or off-site backups. It should also include a tool to check for ransomware which would be beneficial. If a backup is vulnerable to ransomware, there should be a way to detect it, like using ARR rules to ensure your backup is ransomware-free. I haven't had any experience integrating Dell Avamar with AI solutions. It’s also a good point that Avamar doesn't offer such integrations, which is an area where Dell could improve."

"A benefit would be support for either Azure Cool Storage or AWS Glacier."

"The management of this solution is a little bit difficult for IT administrators. They have to be trained before going through the system."

"The interface has room for improvement. It's not ideal right now."

"There are instances where backups fail on certain applications, which is an area that could be improved."

"It's an expensive solution."

"The recovery is a bit slow."

"What would make Dell Avamar better is if it can do faster backups because right now, PowerProtect Data Manager is better in this area with its new UI and a new way to implement backups. Customers nowadays also expect more up-to-date solutions, and this is another area for improvement in Dell Avamar. It's not as up-to-date, so I'm counting on PowerProtect Data Manager, but customers who have Dell Avamar don't want to switch because you don't have as many backup problems in Dell Avamar compared to other solutions. What I'd like to see in the next release of Dell Avamar is an updated UI and a different way to manage backups because currently, backup management is a bit heavy for customers using Dell Avamar."

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"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."

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

"The product could improve its pricing."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is the main thing I'd like to see them change. If they can come down in price, that would be a good thing. It's very cost competitive in the entry level range, because Veeam pricing is much cheaper than Avamar."

"The solution is costly."

"The cost of the solution is very expensive."

"It's a very high-end solution and comparable to Rubrik and Cohesity."

"It is expensive. The maintenance comes with it for five years. So, you buy the whole thing for five years, and your maintenance is included with it, but it's a big chunk of change upfront. We like capital expenses because we can CapEx them. We pay once every five years, so we spend a big chunk of change. You'd have to divide that out by the five years to come up with how much it costs. It's just about three-quarters of a million dollars for five years."

"Regarding pricing, I would say Avamar is slightly expensive compared to its functionalities. It's not high-priced or low-priced but somewhere in between."

"It is very expensive. It's a trust based licensing. So that's an ethical challenge."

"The current pricing is generally satisfactory."

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"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."

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

"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."

"The cost is expensive."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Dell EMC Avamar and Dell EMC NetWorker?

From the very beginning, Dell EMC NetWorker considers users and those who might potentially become users. In terms of both pricing and setup, this product offers an experience that is significantly...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC Avamar?

The cost is very significant, and it could be lower.

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What do you like most about Dell Avamar?

Easy to configure and highly reliable for backup.

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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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Overview

Dell Avamar data protection software delivers flexible and efficient backup and recovery operations that can scale from daily backup protection for endpoints to high-performance protection for large enterprises with diverse applications and workloads. With application consistent recovery, automation and fast backup and restores, Avamar can help you meet your SLAs and optimize your backup and recovery processes

If you are deploying all or part of your backup environment to the cloud, Avamar enables you to make the most of your cloud investment, enabling replication, disaster recovery and long-term retention for customers using AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

Avamar is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite, which offers comprehensive data protection software applications and tools. Avamar is delivered as software and as a virtual edition.

Dell Technologies

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.

Oracle

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