We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Cloud Service and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Cloud Service is its cloud capabilities."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's partitioning and advanced data card."
"The product’s most valuable feature is affordable pricing compared to other providers."
"Oracle DCS's most valuable features are its high availability and scalability."
"Data storage is the most valuable feature of Oracle Database Cloud Service."
"Security is the most valuable feature provided by the product."
"It is a very stable program."
"We're satisfied with the stability."
"The interface is user friendly."
"It is easy to manage for the administrator. It is also easy to use for applications that are Windows-based. It is a very stable product, and it has got backup and recovery tools."
"The solution offers very high performance."
"The solution seems to be pretty flexible."
"The columnstore index feature is useful for us, and we also use the integration services. It is also very stable."
"SQL Server is definitely easy to use, and with the volume that we have, it's also stable."
"Microsoft is less demanding because everything is GUI, unlike Oracle, where you need to use command lines."
"Oracle Database Cloud Service could improve by adding some cross-region replication features."
"The initial setup is a bit complex for the beginner, so you need a little technical experience to install it."
"We encountered connection failures for some of our sites."
"It would be nice to have a data dictionary reporting feature in the solution."
"The pricing must be improved."
"We're actually going through licensing issues and are looking to perhaps changing to another solution, something that is perhaps open-source."
"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."
"Oracle should work on the solution's compatibility issues with the operating system."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"If this solution could provide an automatic indexing feature it would be very useful."
"The tool's support needs to be improved."
"The maintenance and tasks should be improved so as to reduce database files."
"It could be more stable."
"Right now we don't get much technical support from Microsoft"
"I would say that people should know how to get a SQL setup in place since it might be an area where they lack when it comes to the solution."
"Although I am satisfied with the solution, some clients have asked us to resolve technical issues, such as those involving silver solution and replication."
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Oracle Database Cloud Service is ranked 13th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Oracle Database Cloud Service is rated 8.2, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Cloud Service writes "The product provides excellent security features and performance insights, and the total cost of ownership is pretty less". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Oracle Database Cloud Service is most compared with Oracle Database and MySQL, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Database Cloud Service vs. SQL Server report.
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