Oracle Database as a Service vs Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer comparison

Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer are both solutions in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category. Oracle Database as a Service is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.8, while Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8. Oracle Database as a Service holds a 7.8% mindshare in DS, compared to Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Oracle Database as a Service users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 22, 2025

Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer offer robust database solutions, competing in the enterprise database market. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer generally has the upper hand for performance and scalability, appealing to enterprises that prioritize these attributes.

Features: Oracle Database as a Service supports multitenancy, stability, and rapid deployment, appealing for testing and production. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer emphasizes high performance, seamless integration, and advanced infrastructure, making it ideal for enterprises with heavy processing needs.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Database as a Service could enhance integration with non-Oracle databases, simplify cloud governance and licensing, and provide more thorough documentation. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer might benefit from expanded user training, more comprehensive data migration tools, and increased transparency in scalability and costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Database as a Service excels in ease of deployment across public and hybrid clouds with good customer service, although communication channels could be enhanced. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is primarily deployed on-premises or in private clouds, with strong support, but requires adaptation to its complex architecture.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Database as a Service has variable pricing, generally high but justified by its features. It provides cost-effective solutions for its investment. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is seen as costly but offers exceptional performance benefits and comprehensive licensing, ensuring a substantial return on investment over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database as a Service

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Exadata Cloud at Cus...

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Oracle Database as a Service is 7.8%, down from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is 4.3%, up from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Database as a Service	7.8%
Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer	4.3%
Other	87.9%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Featured Reviews

Duy AnhMai

Product Owner at Heineken

Offers security and good performance

Price-wise, the tool is expensive, and I feel it is an area where improvements are needed. Oracle Database as a Service is not as popular as other tools because we use AWS and GCP. Oracle is okay in terms of performance for banking businesses and some big companies. As I use the tool in Heineken, I know Oracle is an okay security solution. We use and deploy some applications and features from Oracle that are better than what others offer. The data in the tool is actually stored in the production part, so it is always kept a secret. I don't think that AI has been integrated into the tool. The AI used by Oracle is not as strong as that used by AWS. I recommend the tool to others, especially banking, finance, and insurance companies where the security needs to be better. There is maintenance for the tool required, but I don't know which company does it for our organization. I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

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RODRIGOPETERSON

Senior Architect at Capgemini

Leverages cloud capabilities and offers minimal latency with operation model

Customers have less operational burden and more responsibility regarding the management of hardware. Increasing the scale of Oracle Exadata Cloud provides more capacity, higher performance, and expanded storage, CPU, and memory resources. If you need to scale Oracle's capacity up or down, the appliance can be adjusted on-premise. When you purchase Oracle Exadata Cloud, you must acquire either a half or full rack. If you need to increase capacity, you can scale up by adding more hardware. This hardware commitment lasts four to five years, meaning you must maintain this infrastructure and continue payments for that period. While you can scale up to meet increased demands, scaling down is more challenging. I recommend the solution when the customer desires to transition to a cloud-native solution but needs to retain their data in OpenEdge due to compatibility issues or the requirement to interact with on-premise systems to minimize latency. This solution offers minimal latency and modernizes Oracle capabilities through a gateway. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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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

"I will rate this solution a nine out of ten. We have been using this solution for the past ten years. We will continue the partnership. I do not expect to see any further integration of the tool with our software. I will recommend this tool to those with a large database."

"It's a scalable product."

"Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications."

"It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks."

"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are the power, security, and performance."

"The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are configuration and troubleshooting."

"I like the tool’s database services. I like the system’s performance, replication, active data, etc. which are all good."

"In terms of structured databases, I support SQL-based databases. SQL has its place, but not for plannable structure and transactional databases. At the same time, Oracle is very much optimized."

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"Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime."

"The operation model is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is that it is based on Exadata infrastructure, which is Oracle 's leading engineered system that is trusted, fault-tolerant, and has unique performance features."

"Performance has significantly improved."

"I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable."

"I am particularly fond of the intelligent capabilities that enhance the backend, utilizing technology to analyze SQL queries."

Cons

"My favorite option – Multitenant – should be available for some pluggable databases in all editions, without any fee."

"Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data."

"An 8GB download for software is far too big. Nowadays it should be possible to simply use RPM packages on Linux/Unix."

"Pricing for Oracle Database as a Service could be cheaper, so this is an area for improvement."

"Debugging this solution is challenging."

"One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve."

"I would like to see a better dashboard for the storage. It need to be more complete overall."

"The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them."

More Oracle Database as a Service cons

"As a customer, you can't see the boot messages of your virtualized guest machines."

"We had some problems in the developer's environment. We had some problems with the initial installation environment."

"Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is stable, but the only problem occurs during OS patching. If you encounter issues, the VMC (virtual machine cluster) becomes unusable."

"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited."

"For the data migration, we used ZDM. It was not integrated with the databases, and the documentation lacks clarity."

"The solution is expensive."

"Scalability is not straightforward."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is on the expensive side, but I recommend it because it's a good database."

"The price depends on the solution you choose: standard, enterprise, or high performance. For example, enterprise can start between 0.4 an hour up to 1,800. Additional fees also depends on what package you choose. Your feels will be different if you choose the standard, enterprise, high performance, or extreme package. You will pay in relation to what option you ask for. The price is very good if you compare it to other databases."

"The licensing is a nightmare. Tons of options which need to be licensed individually, and no real offering for VMware or other Hypervisors."

"It is a very expensive tool."

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service is reasonable."

"The solution is based on an annual fee."

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service is expensive."

"The solution's price is reasonable but depends upon the negotiation."

More Oracle Database as a Service pricing and cost advice

"The machine and the cloud model itself already have licensing advantages."

"The price is too much."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

32%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	31

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Database as a Service?

It has significantly enhanced our application development process by introducing substantial time savings and streamlining routine tasks.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database as a Service?

The setup cost is approximately four hours.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?

With the advent of generative AI, adding functionality where current administrative activities could be automated would be beneficial. This would help accelerate processes.If we are able to add thi...

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What do you like most about Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

The pricing is reasonable due to a universal agreement, which often positions Oracle solutions better against others. I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

In future updates for Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, I would like to see another feature for the different costs for the non-CDB models, because if you are not using the non-CDB models, you have...

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Also Known As

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Overview

Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases.

Oracle

Oracle Cloud@Customer brings Oracle’s complete portfolio of public cloud infrastructure, fully managed cloud services, and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications into your data center. It enables you to run applications faster and lower your costs using the same high-performance capabilities, autonomous operations, and low-cost subscription pricing in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You get all this while maintaining complete control of your data so you can address data residency, security, and connectivity concerns.

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