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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs VMware Harbor Registry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2025

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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure...
Ranking in Container Registry
5th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (6th), PaaS Clouds (6th), Marketing Intelligence (1st)
VMware Harbor Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
7th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
4.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Harbor Registry is 1.6%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)1.2%
VMware Harbor Registry1.6%
Other97.2%
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Featured Reviews

Labhesh Hase - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effectiveness and pricing consistency support diverse high-intensity applications
The services of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are quite competent when compared to AWS Cloud, and they are also lower in cost. We use compute, storage, and network services. A notable feature is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's consistent global pricing, which is advantageous. Furthermore, applications using Oracle Database not only work seamlessly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) but also benefit from a 25% offset on Oracle Database licenses.
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Effortless setup and comprehensive image scanning enhance project efficiency with minimal manual intervention
The challenge I encountered while using the VMware Harbor Registry is that sometimes the default credentials get overwritten, so we have to restart Harbor to make it function as before. The default credential rewrite is one of the major pains with Harbor, so this has to be improved. They can expand more into the known issue section and support for the older versions. We did check the documentation as well as some of the issues mentioned in GitHub, but they weren't that useful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You can customize everything according to your preferences. I've reached out to customer support many times. I highly recommend using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With the product, you have complete control over the management of your system."
"Our recommendations are good, and we also have a bidding platform that is helpful for managed service providers. This platform can save customers up to 2-3 weeks in billing time, from 25 days to 3-4 days. We have two products: a basic product and a cloud optimization product. Both products help customers improve the performance and cost-efficiency of their cloud environments."
"The object storage and managed backup solution are valuable."
"The strength of this product is that they have many good database options, compared to other vendors."
"The flexibility is most valuable. By having our infrastructure in the cloud, we are able to spin up instances as needed and alter the capacity as needed."
"The most valuable features of the Oracle Cloud Platform are good visualization and analytics. The solution is very well integrated with predictive analytics and forecasting. These features go beyond the traditional reports and visualization."
"Technical support is good. We are partners with Oracle so we are always speaking with them."
"The product gives you independence from hardware onsite, the setup is easy, and there is no need for hardware maintenance."
"It is very convenient to automate consistently deploying it to a Kubernetes environment to see how it performs."
 

Cons

"Areas that need improvement are the pricing and the support."
"I would like more technical expertise."
"The solution isn't very mature. The on-premises deployment has more features and the cloud needs to work to match those options."
"I would like the Oracle Cloud Platform to have a more user-friendly UI similar to Microsoft Azure."
"Amazon AWS has a better solution overall."
"It should have other workloads from other suppliers running on the solution."
"The Oracle Cloud platform remains complex, and despite the abundance of resources available, significant challenges can still arise during the migration process from a legacy or on-premise system. Conversely, smaller companies with less complicated systems, such as those with a two million budget, can migrate more easily."
"I would like them to make it easier. The creation process is very long. There is a very long cookbook that we needed to build. It requires the DBA to build it well, and when you don't build it well it causes a lot of problems. We would like this process to be more automatic."
"The image scanning in VMware Harbor Registry is quite limited compared to other specialized image scanning tools."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Improvements can be made with respect to flexibility in the licensing model."
"My ROI has increased."
"The subscription is a pay-as-you-go model, with fees that are dependent on usage."
"The best aspect of the Oracle Cloud Platform is the relation between the performance and the price. When you compare the price with Amazon AWS, Microsft Azure, or any other, the price for performance is the best."
"Oracle Cloud Platform's pricing is comparable to other solutions, but it is definitely not cheap."
"The costs involved are low when it comes to Oracle Cloud, especially when compared to AWS."
"The solution is expensive according to services and competition. Also, it is not prevalent in the market. I rate the solution’s pricing a seven on a scale of ten, where ten is expensive, and one is cheap."
"It's very expensive compared to AWS."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Retailer
9%
Logistics Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise53
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What are the biggest differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors?
Differences between Workday, Oracle Cloud,w and SAP SuccessFactors:w Oracle: "simple interface and deep customization to suit the purpose." SAP: Multiple functionalities that increase process effi...
What do you like most about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?
It's reliable, performs well, and is often faster than running applications on separate machines due to optimized performance and networking capabilities within OCI.
What needs improvement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry?
Documentation was not sufficient for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and sometimes it was outdated, especially for using Terraform. They have multiple versions of Terraform that work with Oracle...
What needs improvement with VMware Harbor Registry?
The challenge I encountered while using the VMware Harbor Registry is that sometimes the default credentials get overwritten, so we have to restart Harbor to make it function as before. The default...
What is your primary use case for VMware Harbor Registry?
I have been working with the VMware Harbor Registry for three years. I am currently using version 2.93 of the VMware Harbor Registry. For Harbor, we use both open source and enterprise versions; we...
 

Also Known As

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry, Oracle OCIR, OCIR, Oracle Cloud, Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle Data Cloud
VMware Harbor
 

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