We performed a comparison between NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Oracle Data Guard based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"We have found all the features of Nakivo to be useful and the solution is easier to use compared to Proxmox. It is user-friendly, we are very satisfied."
"The VM Backup Verification is one of the features I appreciate the most."
"With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks."
"This is a user-friendly solution that has a lot of certifications and documentation for the Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure."
"The updates are problem-free, so we can keep Nakivo up to date on the server and NAS too."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"The most important feature besides the easy management of the different backup jobs is the automated e-mail notification functionality."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."
"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."
"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."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."
"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"Oracle Data Guard is scalable. I rate it a ten out of ten."
"Automatic updates do not work, and every update has to be done manually."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
"Space is always an issue."
"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"The initial setup is complex."
"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."
"The database administration needs improvement. With Oracle, we have a lot of features for administrating data, but it might be too many. It needs to be simplified. It should be automated. Looking at Enterprise Manager, there are too many KPIs in place."
"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."
"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."
"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 rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Oracle Data Guard is ranked 11th in Backup and Recovery with 31 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Oracle Data Guard is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Data Guard writes "Ensures our databases stay in sync between the main and disaster recovery sites". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto, whereas Oracle Data Guard is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault Cloud and Carbonite Server. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Oracle Data Guard report.
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