OpenText Data Protector vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

OpenText and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. OpenText is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.3. OpenText holds a 0.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

OpenText Data Protector

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80% willing to recommend

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

OpenText Data Protector and Oracle Data Guard are two competing data protection solutions, each with distinct advantages. Oracle Data Guard stands out due to its advanced features, making it preferable for robust, enterprise-level solutions.

Features: OpenText Data Protector is praised for comprehensive backup and recovery options, ease of integration with various environments, and strong customer support. Oracle Data Guard offers high availability, data integrity, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Data Protector users have indicated a need for better reporting functionalities, smoother upgrades, and enhanced automation. Oracle Data Guard users suggest enhancements in automation capabilities, more intuitive configuration processes, and better integration with non-Oracle databases.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Data Protector has a straightforward deployment process and is noted for its responsive customer service. Oracle Data Guard's deployment is more complex, requiring specialized knowledge, but its detailed documentation and effective support help mitigate challenges.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Data Protector is recognized for its competitive pricing and good return on investment, especially for small to mid-sized businesses. Oracle Data Guard, while more expensive, offers substantial ROI for enterprises needing high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities, justifying the higher initial setup cost for larger organizations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Data Protector

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

21st

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 September 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
OpenText Data Protector	0.8%
Other	98.3%

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Featured Reviews

Jeroen Vranckaerts

System Engineer - Server & Storage, DBA at Audi Brussels

Though a highly stable tool, it needs to be made easier to use and configure

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten. OpenText Data Protector is complex to configure correctly, but the areas concerning the data and compression are good. Once you get the product to work, it works, but it's much too complex to configure and troubleshoot, as it takes a lot of time and energy, making it not so efficient. Once the tool is configured in your environment, it provides good backup and compression features. In my company, we use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our servers, and we have a team of 20 people to take care of the data backup using the tool. My company doesn't use OpenText Data Protector as a backup for our client's computers. In my company, we have scheduled the process related to backup, which makes the tool run daily around 30 to 40 times.

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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

"If you have an idea of what you are doing, it's very flexible and very stable."

"The command-line interface is user-friendly and well documented in the reference guide."

"The most valuable features of this solution were the features we worked most with which were telemetry, and the scheduler."

"This solution is quite stable because we have only three users."

"What I like the most about this solution is that I can change and access the Oracle backup file."

"The solution allows us to be able to backup and exchange directly, to backup Microsoft exchange."

"Ability to automatically detect and secure new data sources without requiring manual configuration intervention."

"It works excellently only with Oracle."

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"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

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

"The solution has been stable so far."

"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."

"The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test it, and then revert it back to the original state without needing to restore the complete database from the primary data center to the disaster recovery."

"We use Data Guard for online replication from data center, to data center for high availability. This is the most important feature."

"The solution is quite stable. We haven't experienced any bugs, glitches, or crashes. We find it to be quite reliable."

"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."

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Cons

"We faced some certification issues after we upgraded to version 10.2."

"The GUI could be updated. The GUI hasn't changed since version 6. It's on version 10 now. The reporting could also be better. Also, while Data Protector is excellent for backing up physical hardware, it needs more features for backing up VM images because many environments use hypervisor."

"VMware backup integration and cloud recovery is lacking."

"Other tools seem to be easier to use."

"The challenge is that we can't restore a single file from the VM in the data process when we do VM backups. But with Commvault, you can restore a single file even if you have a VM snapshot package. That's one drawback of this tool. When we do VM backups, it should help us browse the VMs to restore a single file instead of doing the complete VM restore."

"OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup."

"I would like to see a better user interface in the next release."

"In terms of what can be improved, I would say integrations with MongoDB. We use MongoDB and we need to go to scripts to do backups. We need more integrations."

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"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."

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

"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."

"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."

"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."

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

"The deployment cost is expensive."

"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

"The license for the solution is very expensive compared to the other products in the market."

"It is more affordable compared to other vendors."

"The licensing cost is too high."

"In Data Protector, if you need extra features, you need to buy the agents for these features. Some of the features are Terabytes, some of them are agents. There's some complexity in the pricing and licensing."

"The pricing is acceptable for enterprise level companies, but it's not acceptable for small- and medium-sized businesses. Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution, and it should cover small- and medium-sized businesses with acceptable prices."

"Pricing/licensing is Data Protector's single best offering. In its most basic environment, the only license required is for whatever target device is required."

"The pricing is neither too expensive nor very cheap."

"The licensing structure provides cost savings to business."

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

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

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

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

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

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

19%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	61

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus Data Protector?

I haven't experienced any crashes while using the solution...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Data Protector?

The solution is expensive as it requires purchasing all features without the option to negotiate based on client numbers, unlike Veeam which offers flexibility in pricing.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Data Protector?

OpenText Data Protector is not user-friendly, especially for cloud backup. It lacks functions and facilities compared to Veeam, which offers more user-friendliness for virtual machine backups. Ther...

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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

Micro Focus Data Protector, Data Protector, OmniBack, HPE Data Protector

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Overview

OpenText Data Protector standardizes and consolidates backups across multiple platforms. It provides secure, comprehensive backup protection for business-critical data and applications whether virtual, physical, or online in the cloud.

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.

Oracle

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