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Oracle Database Cloud Service vs SAP HANA vs SQL Server comparison

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Database Cloud Service is 2.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP HANA is 6.2%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Server is 10.3%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SQL Server10.3%
SAP HANA6.2%
Oracle Database Cloud Service2.0%
Other81.5%
Relational Databases Tools
 

Featured Reviews

BB
Senior Consultant at NewAge Consulting
Has improved data security and automation while supporting large-scale storage and migration
I do not use the Global Reach feature. Regarding metrics and performance, I don’t recall the exact performance metrics, but we use ETL processes to monitor and manage migration performance and data quality. Oracle Database Cloud Service is strong for data management and storage, as well as for its security features and automation of data dumps and archiving. Overall, Oracle Database Cloud Service is a solid product. It’s well-suited for financial platforms. Oracle provides both its on-premises and cloud-based suites, and the company continues to evolve, offering more components for data storage, data management, and integration with other tools and SaaS solutions. I plan to continue using Oracle Database Cloud Service, particularly for managing SaaS tools in financial contexts.
Bassem Mohammed - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Application Manager at TBTD
Integrated business processes have improved real-time analytics and financial performance
Whether I or my customers utilize SAP HANA's real-time analytics depends on the data needed to be displayed, and then choosing how to transfer the data to the analytic object, data source, or database to be displayed in the reports. It may be near real-time, real-time, or running batch every day. There are tools for integration between third-party systems, such as OData or APIs from SAP to get in or push data to other systems. Support for both structured and unstructured data helps organizations unify data sources depending on the needed data to be displayed. There are many ways to store it for report displays, but structured data will be better than unstructured data.
Peter Larsson - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Warehouse Lead at Resurs Bank AB (publ.)
Ledger and seamless integrations have strengthened trusted analytics and unified workloads
SQL Server's high availability and disaster recovery features work for supporting mission-critical applications, but there is much more to wish for. These features are not quite ready yet, although they do function. However, they could be significantly better. High availability and disaster recovery features should be improved in the next releases. I have noticed that everything could be improved or enhanced in the future, particularly temporal tables and window functions. Sometimes, I believe Microsoft releases features to stay ahead of competitors, but they do not make them feature-rich or feature-complete. They release something to be ahead of leaders and then seem to forget to maintain and upgrade them. I want Microsoft to pay more attention and be more mindful about the things they implement. It is fine to do a first release that works, but you cannot simply abandon it in the following years without service packs and improvements. You must continue to build on features rather than forgetting about them.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Oracle DCS's most valuable features are its high availability and scalability."
"It is a very stable program."
"Oracle DCS is stable and easy to use, scale, and maintain."
"What I like best about Oracle Database Cloud Service is its nice performance. My company doesn't have any problems with the service. The technical support for it is also good. My company is satisfied with Oracle Database Cloud Service. I also like the availability of the service. It's a trustworthy service. I didn't experience any downtime from it. My company also has additional features included in the contract, such as WAP, which makes operations easier. My team can implement all the architecture with the features and services that Oracle Database Cloud Service offers. Technically, this is a very, very, good product or database, whether on-premises or on the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Cloud Service is its cloud capabilities."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Database Cloud Service are its scalability, advanced technology, cost-effectiveness, and the flexibility it provides with licensing."
"Technically, this is a very, very, good product or database, whether on-premises or on the cloud."
"I recommend Oracle Database Cloud Service as a good technology with excellent support and documentation."
"Implementing SAP HANA offers financial benefits to the organization."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"SAP HANA is very flexible and supports many different scenarios as it can work with analytics, GenAI use cases, and also supports transactional applications."
"HANA is currently a stable solution after many upgrades."
"The UX experience is very good."
"We can save data very easily."
"The feature I found most valuable in SAP HANA is modeling, and I also like that the solution has good integration and you can integrate it with any system, even third-party systems."
"We are using the solution for the DW system. The primary function of the solution is for the database in memory."
"It allows for performance tuning to maximize performance."
"To others who are interested in using this solution, I would say go for it."
"Scalability, cluster ability, ease of use, ease of implementation — these are all great."
"It is stable, and it works okay."
"The management studio is probably the thing we use the most for running quick queries and creating quick reports. Quite often, somebody comes and says, "Hey, can you find XYZ?" It is so much easier just to jump in there and run a quick query."
"The solution is extremely stable; it's got an amazing backup repository system and a fail-safe system for any type of data loss, with backups stored on a day-to-day or even hourly basis and the ability to restore critical, recent, or archive data relatively fast."
"Tuning Advisor suggests where to add indexes and from where to remove them. It works like an adviser."
"The stability of the solution is quite good; we don't have issues with it, it doesn't crash or freeze, we don't experience bugs or glitches, and it's reliable."
 

Cons

"We encountered connection failures for some of our sites."
"We're actually going through licensing issues and are looking to perhaps changing to another solution, something that is perhaps open-source."
"In my opinion, the price of Oracle Database Cloud Service should be more affordable. Additionally, the interface of the application could be more user-friendly."
"I would rate the quality of technical support from Oracle as a five out of ten. Some of my colleagues have found the duration of service to be too long and lacking in technical detail."
"The user interface of the database could be like SQL Developer on-premise. The scripts are not persistent in the cloud, and the export of the data is not quite like on-prem."
"The implementation process could be easier for customers."
"Oracle Database Cloud Service is a good engine and at the moment, there isn't any new feature I can think of that I'd like added to the service. The only problem I see in Oracle Database Cloud Service is it's more commercial, so it has a relation to how it deals with customers. I don't feel secure in a deal with Oracle because that team changes the conditions each year, and there's no representative from the team that talks to my company about new needs. Oracle needs to improve its relationship with customers and partners in general."
"I think the program is rather expensive, so I would like to see it becoming more affordable."
"The product is very demanding on memory requirements."
"The deployment of SAP HANA is far too complicated and takes far too long. The typical implementation time is between six months and two years."
"I would have rated the solution higher if this version was not missing some key features the newer version has."
"The initial setup was very, very complex, tedious, and costly and required someone with great expertise to complete it."
"Uses a large amount of RAM and is costly."
"The solution is very expensive, however. The pricing depends on the number of users and many other factors that affect licensing."
"The solution is less stable than traditional databases. We had production down and that's not acceptable for our business."
"One notable issue is the difficulty in finding consultants with experience in the SuccessFactors product, a human resource management tool part of SAP's cloud-based solutions. For example, learning the Oracle database is straightforward. You can easily go to the Oracle website, download the database, install it on your laptop, and access technical resources and books."
"The scalability is adequate but could improve."
"The price could be better. In the next release, it would be better if the database was more easily extendable."
"The licensing costs are very high."
"SQL Server backups could be better."
"SQL Server is a stable solution, but it could be improved."
"SQL Server is not going to do that. In this way, it is not very scalable."
"The ability to connect with other environments needs to be improved."
"The performance for the platform wasn't as good as I would like. I'm not entirely satisfied."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has reasonable pricing. I rate its pricing a nine out of ten."
"I think the program is rather expensive, so I would like to see it becoming more affordable."
"Pricing for Oracle Database Cloud Service could be more competitive. Lately, pricing for it has been increasing, so my company may have to review different options to find a solution with competitive pricing. From what I know, there's no additional cost apart from the standard licensing fees for Oracle Database Cloud Service."
"Every year we are increasing the price of the solution. There is hardware licensing available. We pay approximately $20,000 monthly to use the solution."
"Price is always higher for all Oracle products."
"The tool is not cheap."
"The cost of SAP HANA is high, and I would rate the price at eight out of ten."
"It is expensive, which isn't a problem for us because SAP HANA is processing the data so fast."
"SAP HANA is more expensive than other solutions."
"The solution's license is very expensive so I rate pricing a one out of ten."
"We pay for a maintenance license, and the licensing cost is high. In general, it is a very expensive solution."
"There is an annual payment needed to use the solution."
"The price is on the expensive side, at eight out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"The price of this product is good."
"The licenses are purchased annually."
"The licensing involves a one time fee."
"The price of the solution is very expensive. If I went with the cloud version of SQL a license would cost me approximately 11,000 Riyals per month."
"The product's price is reasonable."
"Since we are a cloud-based company, there is AWS pricing on top of the SQL Server pricing. The Enterprise Edition can typically sell from around $1000 dollars a month, which is not cheap. Then, there is an additional one-time Windows cost, based on the code, which can go anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 for the license."
"I know the SQL Server pricing model, I believe, is based on CPU cores that your database server has, but I don't know what the solution's prices are though."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"For medium-sized customers who don't need some enterprise features, the tool would be available for 200 USD per month. For the enterprise segment, the tool's cost can go up to 6,000 USD."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Retailer
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
35%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise64
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business119
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise119
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Oracle Database Cloud Service?
Oracle Database Cloud Service could improve by adding a native iPaaS (integration platform as a service). While machi...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Database Cloud Service?
I worked with Oracle Database on-premises as a developer for seven years at Sopra Banking. Later, I used Oracle Datab...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Database Cloud Service?
I do not use the Global Reach feature. Regarding metrics and performance, I don’t recall the exact performance metric...
What are the biggest benefits of using SAP HANA?
Based on my work with SAP HANA, the biggest benefit that it can bring to your business is total data management. This...
Is SAP HANA’s customer and technical support reliable?
We have been using SAP HANA for a fairly short period of time and have only taken advantage of their customer support...
Is SAP HANA difficult to set up and start using?
SAP HANA is fairly easy to set up, however, I do not think a complete beginner can do it. You certainly need some pre...
Would you say the price of SQL Server is high compared to that of similar products?
SQL Server is fairly priced because it has various editions, depending on the number of users, servers, or core packs...
Has using SQL Server helped your organization in any way?
SQL Server has helped my organization through partitioning to distribute the workload, as it splits them up into smal...
Which authentication mode is best for SQL Server?
My company connects through SQL Server authentication. We have company Windows accounts, but we do not want to connec...
 

Also Known As

No data available
SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance, HANA
Microsoft SQL Server, MSSQL, MS SQL
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Kagool, iPoint-Systems
Unilever, NHS 24, adidas Group, CHIO Aachen, Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited
Microsoft SQL Server is used by businesses in every industry, including Great Western Bank, Aviva, the Volvo Car Corporation, BMW, Samsung, Principality Building Society, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario.
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