Oracle Data Guard vs Unitrends comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Unitrends and Oracle Data Guard compete in the data backup and recovery market. Users generally prefer Unitrends for its pricing and support, while Oracle Data Guard is favored by enterprises for its features despite higher costs.

Features: Unitrends offers comprehensive backup options, ease of use, and strong customer support. Oracle Data Guard provides advanced replication, disaster recovery capabilities, and robust security, making it ideal for mission-critical environments.

Room for Improvement: Unitrends could improve its reporting capabilities, offer more granular control over backup retention policies, and develop more intuitive management tools. Oracle Data Guard needs better documentation, a simpler configuration process, and streamlined workflows.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Unitrends is straightforward to deploy and known for strong customer support, suitable for smaller organizations. Oracle Data Guard, though complex to deploy, offers detailed support and an extensive knowledge base for larger enterprises.

Pricing and ROI: Unitrends is more affordable and quicker to implement, providing good ROI for small to mid-sized businesses. Oracle Data Guard, while more expensive, offers significant ROI for enterprises due to superior features and reliability, justifying the higher initial setup cost.

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Categories and Ranking

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

Unitrends

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

40th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Unitrends is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Todd Guthrie

Director Of Information Technology at Creation Technologies

The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive

I wouldn't rate Unitrends a ten out of ten because we had some hard drive failures in the appliance. Typically, when you have OneDrive, you can get it replaced. For some particular reason, the situation caused the entire system to crash. We had to reinstall the CentOS operating system on it, and we lost all our backups. They said there was no way to retain it, and it was pretty devastating and concerning that a drive failure would cause the loss of all the data on the appliance. It was extremely disappointing, and we had to start from scratch after three years worth of backup data. I rate Unitrends a nine out of ten for stability.

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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 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 solution has been stable so far."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

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"The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files."

"I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports."

"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."

"It is fairly stable."

"It's not easy to scale it."

"The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof."

"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."

"They have great support."

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Cons

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

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

"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."

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

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

"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 implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."

"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."

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"In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses."

"It seems like Unitrends moved away from enterprise customer engagement and moved more towards the managed service provider market."

"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."

"Making the seeding process more accessible and easier to understand. Also, make more of the undocumented best practices easier to find."

"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."

"The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive."

"I would like to see more storage options for the free version."

"There are a few quirks where the GUI, agent, and back-end are not precisely meshed."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

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

"The cost is expensive."

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

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

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"Make sure you do the homework to size the solution properly. Buy the Enterprise Plus licensing if you can afford it."

"When you purchase initially, get into the program which gives replacement hardware for free when you renew your support agreement."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a four out of ten. The licensing is yearly and it depends on the customers."

"The cost of Unitrends definitely draws you in. The licensing is all included in the appliance, which is a great incentive."

"With respect to cost, my advice is to get what you need."

"We found that the cost of Unitrends was about the same as the Dell DR6300. We liked the fact that the Unitrends appliance was all-in-one."

"Based on a scale of one to ten, with one being low and ten being high, I would rate the pricing of this solution as a three. Also, there are no additional costs involved in the standard licensing of the solution."

"No comment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Retailer

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Educational Organization

10%

Non Profit

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

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...

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...

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...

What do you like most about Unitrends?

The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback

What needs improvement with Unitrends?

In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses—I had to hover over to find that information. Figuring out the scripting part wasn't s...

What is your primary use case for Unitrends?

I use Unitrends to back up my VMware virtual machines and files, ensuring redundancy for both disks and protection against ransomware. I have implemented an air gap strategy by keeping some backups...

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Overview

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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Organizations rely on Unitrends to back up and protect both physical and virtual servers with compatibility for legacy systems and an appliance model.

Unitrends supports Microsoft Hyper-V clusters, VMware ESXi clusters, SQL databases, and Exchange DAGs. Valuable for K-12 schools for continuous monitoring via a graphical interface, it also offers real-time synchronization, file restoration, report generation, email status updates, redundancy, and ransomware protection. Features include effective technical support, instant recovery, detailed reporting, real-time synchronization, global deduplication, cross-compatibility for OS backups, and frequent updates. Easy to install for Hyper-V appliances, the platform benefits users with its dashboard insights, saving time and ensuring reliability. While improvements are needed in high availability features, customer engagement, cloud capabilities, storage options, and the free version, the UI, configuration complexity, pricing, and support costs also demand attention. Users find scaling challenging and desire better feature parity with competitors, clearer recovery information, improved scripting, and flexible retention settings based on repository.

What are the most important features?

Effective technical support
Instant recovery
Detailed daily and email reporting
User-friendly interface
Real-time synchronization
Global deduplication
Cross-compatibility for diverse OS backups
Frequent updates
Ease of installation for Hyper-V appliances
Automated feedback
UniView features
Instant power-on
Cost-effective pricing
Time-saving dashboard insights

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Time-saving features
Efficient data synchronization
Enhanced data recovery and protection
Accurate reporting and insights
Cost-effective and reliable solution

K-12 schools use Unitrends for continuous monitoring and verification via a graphical interface. Its real-time synchronization, file restoration, and report generation features support educational institutions' needs, ensuring data protection and operational efficiency.

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