OpenText Data Protector vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

OpenText and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. OpenText is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.3. OpenText holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% 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

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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

22nd

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 July 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of OpenText Data Protector is 0.7%, 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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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

"Data Protector's GUI is the most useful feature."

"The initial setup is very easy."

"The installation was simple and provided an easy way to install even on Unix servers. It has excellent features like deduplication."

"It works excellently only with Oracle."

"The solution is easy to use."

"Data Protector is quite simple and easy to deploy. The deployment is always the same. It's on a server, and the agents are deployed to the machines in a straightforward way. We have two engineers who deploy and manage all our backup solutions."

"In one of the projects involving a database and UCMDB integration, we needed to manage a large database. We used the scheduling feature in Data Protector to automate backups."

"It's supports Unix, Linux, all of the OS's. It's very stable software."

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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."

"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."

"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."

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

"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."

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Cons

"We have so many specific technological cracks in Micro Focus, but we are not getting the features, facilities, or coordination between the global delivery centers and the R&D team that we need to express our ideas."

"The solution is not intuitive enough. I think they should work on the user experience and the graphical interface. These can be a lot better."

"We're not satisfied with the robustness and stability of the software since Micro Focus took it in-house. The GUI is one thing they could improve. It's still a bit archaic. Data Protector needs a more functional, user-friendly GUI."

"Micro Focus are improving Data Protector with every new version and since we began undergoing training with the latest version we have not faced any real challenges yet. However, their support does need to be improved, in my opinion. In certain critical cases that we've had, they did not provide a satisfactory level of support."

"The technical support is poor and should be improved."

"It has a lot of undeveloped functions like window searching and patent searching, and within the main backup processes like VMware and Microsoft Exchange. It's completely not user-friendly, and it has no built-in antivirus software. In my opinion, Micro Focus Data Protector is not an enterprise level solution."

"If you compare the solution with the same specific features and enhancements on another solution, Data Protector is expensive. This is especially true when compared to, for example, Veeam."

"In SAP restoration, we faced issues with changing the SIDs and changing the path for every backup object. It is quite a lengthy process to do that."

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"There is an issue with their application on ODG. There were a lot of edits in the logs. Sometimes, we only get a little cue from the Data Guard Broker logs if there's an issue."

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

"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."

"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."

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

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

"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

"The licensing cost was not annual. We didn't pay any license. We paid when we deployed and we didn't pay for anything after that. There were no additional fees after the initial payment."

"Data Protector's pricing is very competitive and we have no issues in this regard. I would give it an eight out of ten in terms of pricing."

"There is a perpetual license involved in addition to support which needs to be renewed annually."

"Avoid using many LTO drives; when using fewer drives, the price will be extremely good."

"The licensing structure provides cost savings to business."

"The product is cheaper than Commvault."

"They have two types of licensing, one is for storage capacity and the other is client licensing. The capacity licensing here is a bit expensive."

"The pricing is around $3,000 to $5,000. The charge additionally for support and to scale."

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"It's a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"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 licensing cost is significantly high."

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

"The cost is expensive."

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

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

10%

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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.

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