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Oracle Database vs SQL Server comparison

Oracle and Microsoft are both solutions in the Relational Databases Tools category. Oracle is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. Oracle holds a 12.8% mindshare in SQL, compared to Microsoft’s 18.6% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Oracle Database and SQL Server compete in the enterprise database management systems category. Oracle has the upper hand in terms of high availability and robust security features, making it ideal for large enterprises, whereas SQL Server is favored for ease of use and compatibility with Microsoft products.

Features: Oracle Database is known for its high availability, scalability, and robust security, capable of managing enormous volumes of data with consistency and reliability. It provides support for advanced analytics and seamless integration with Oracle products. SQL Server prioritizes ease of use and comes equipped with robust data analytics and management tools. Its compatibility with Microsoft products and strong community support is valuable for businesses of all sizes.

Room for Improvement: Oracle users often criticize its costly and complex licensing model and suggest the need for improved integration with non-Oracle products and more user-friendly features for non-experts. SQL Server is noted for expensive enterprise licensing and suggests improvements in database management automation and enhanced security features while optimizing scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle's deployment, especially in hybrid cloud setups, is complex and time-consuming, requiring skilled administrators and presenting mixed customer service experiences. In contrast, SQL Server offers straightforward deployment, particularly within Microsoft-centric environments, benefiting from extensive Microsoft resources and community support, which enhances ease of use and flexibility.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Database is perceived as expensive with a daunting licensing structure, though it offers substantial ROI for enterprises focusing on high performance. SQL Server provides a cost-effective solution with flexible pricing models that offer good value for small to mid-sized enterprises, although costs can rise for enterprise-level installations.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
289
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SQL Server
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
268
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Database is 12.8%, down from 15.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Server is 18.6%, down from 23.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

SR
Oct 05, 2023
Which solution do you prefer: Microsoft SQL Server's enterprise edition or Oracle Database's enterprise edition?
Your decision should ideally be based on: - The specific needs and existing infrastructure of your organization. - Cost considerations. - Desired features and potential future scaling. - Expertise available within your organization or your hiring intentions. I can provide a comparison based on the characteristics of Microsoft SQL Server's Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database's Enterprise Edition: 1. Licensing and Cost: - SQL Server: Historically, SQL Server has been considered to be more cost-effective than Oracle. Microsoft offers both core-based and CAL (Client Access License) based licensing options. - Oracle: Oracle is often perceived as more expensive, with its licensing based primarily on cores (with considerations for hyper-threading). There are also additional costs for add-on features which might be included in other platforms. 2. Platform Integration: - SQL Server: Tends to have better integration with other Microsoft products like Windows OS, .NET, Azure, etc. - Oracle: Oracle offers a wide range of integrated tools, but the integration might not be as smooth with non-Oracle products. 3. Performance: - Both databases are enterprise-grade and offer high performance, but the actual performance can depend on the specific use-case, database design, hardware, and many other factors. 4. Features: - SQL Server: SQL Server offers features like Always On Availability Groups, Columnstore Indexes, and integration with tools like Power BI. - Oracle: Offers advanced features like Real Application Clusters (RAC), Exadata optimizations, Advanced Compression, Partitioning, etc. Some of these features, however, come with additional licensing costs. 5. Ease of Use: - SQL Server: Often considered more user-friendly, especially for those organizations already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem. - Oracle: Might have a steeper learning curve, but offers flexibility and depth for those familiar with it. 6. Cloud Integration: - SQL Server: Has tight integration with Azure, Microsoft's cloud solution. - Oracle: Oracle Cloud offers various services tailored to the Oracle Database, and the company has been pushing its cloud services aggressively.
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Featured Reviews

Ismail Aboulezz - PeerSpot reviewer
Continuous updates improve performance and add valuable features to meet workload demands
Oracle Database ( /products/oracle-database-reviews ) is easy to install, customize, troubleshoot, and maintain. Its data management capabilities include data quality, data integration, data architecture, modeling, and data security, which are very important for data-driven companies. Furthermore, Oracle Database's performance and scalability features meet workload demands, and its continuous updates improve performance and add valuable features.
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Azizul Haque - PeerSpot reviewer
It has eliminated all kinds of inconsistencies, and it is reliable, secure, and fast
I don't know whether SQL Server can support large organizations where the database size is more than 100 GB. It might be because of SQL Server, or it might be because of the programming of the software vendor, but a lot of people think that it is a problem with SQL Server. It can't handle a large amount of data or large data size. In terms of its usage, about 90% of our applications are running on the SQL Server database. We have around 1,600 users for our software, and all the applications are connected to the SQL Server database.
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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

"It seems to work."
"Compared to other databases, Oracle Database is very simple to manage in terms of the database itself."
"Offers a lot of backup security and is very powerful."
"A very reliable solution."
"As compared to SQL Server, Oracle Database performs better when you have a huge amount of data. We didn't face any problems when we had a huge amount of data. There were also no issues with importing/exporting and migrating the data."
"It is reliable. It's very stable."
"The solution is very easy to use in general."
"The product provides high availability."
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"It is the latest technology and pretty powerful in terms of the high availability of the virtual server."
"Technical support is very good."
"It's great that the database engine is always on."
"If we want to expand to other servers and create an extra node, it's expandable."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"SQL Server stands out due to its robust parallel processing capabilities."
"It is easy to use and very stable."
"It is easy to deploy and easy to maintain."
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Cons

"Oracle needs to improve its cluster technologies. They need to improve in the cluster technology using ARC due to the fact that sometimes people think that they have a redundant server when they are using ARC with the cluster and think that will increase the performance. In reality, if they are using ii with a big workload, sometimes the performance is not increasing, and can sometimes actually impacts it in such a way that there's some degradation in the performance."
"When it comes to Oracle, the only complaint that I have is their support. For business-critical cases, finding support is a little bit difficult because of the timezone difference. They should provide faster support to resolve issues on time."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Sometimes they tell us we can't upgrade the database for now as there's a vulnerability Oracle couldn't find a solution for."
"An area for improvement would be query performance - in some cases, it's really, really hard to make it run faster."
"It could be cheaper and easier to manage. Support could also be better. Performance could be better. Sometimes testing impacts the prediction performance. We have a complex server that serves both prediction and testing. Sometimes testing applies to many other deployments that impact the service provided. It's a problem for our company."
"I would like to see more patches."
"The consumption of memory and the client memory has been increased exorbitantly in the most recent past."
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"More things in SQL Server need to be automated."
"There should be more security updates for the product."
"The number of concurrent users is too limited and other databases are better than SQL in this regard."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
"The pricing in general could be better."
"One stability issue I encountered was the deadlocking between calls to the same resources (tables, etc.). That was solved by row versioning."
"The solution could offer more integration with other platforms."
"SQL Server could integrate better with other platforms."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Generally, when you buy Oracle Database, and if you're buying it for your own data center on the on-prem side, you have to go by the processor cores and the list price is around $47,500 for the enterprise edition per core."
"We have a yearly license, and it could be cheaper."
"Its price is a little bit high in terms of competitiveness. It is a little bit expensive. For any additional features, there are additional costs."
"We need to pay an annual subscription for the solution, which is moderately priced."
"When you consider the services, Oracle is reasonably priced."
"You have to purchase extra licenses for Oracle Data Guard."
"You buy it initially, and then you pay for yearly support if you need support. If you don't need support, you can also use it without the support."
"The price of the solution is expensive compared to other database solutions. We are on an annual subscription."
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"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 price could be cheaper."
"​It has the easiest licensing."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten. It is not extremely cheap but also it's not the most expensive product."
"It is expensive in terms of licensing costs and pricing. If you want to scale SQL Server, it is very expensive. We probably have to pay extra for technical support. We also have to pay for the license of Windows on which the SQL Server resides, which is an extra cost."
"The licenses are purchased annually."
"The price of SQL Server is great. In my company, SQL Server is part of the Microsoft Suite, we don't have to pay for any additional license costs, it's quite cost-effective for us."
"​We are a Microsoft shop, so we use Active Directory. That integrates well with this product, but we did look at Oracle. We also looked at IBM. This was the best price point for us for what we were getting.​"
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Answers from the Community

SR
Oct 5, 2023
Oct 5, 2023
Which solution do you prefer: Microsoft SQL Server's enterprise edition or Oracle Database's enterprise edition?
Your decision should ideally be based on: - The specific needs and existing infrastructure of your organization. - Cost considerations. - Desired features and potential future scaling. - Expertise available within your organization or your hiring intentions. I can provide a comparison based on the characteristics of Microsoft SQL Server's Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database's Enterprise Edit...
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PG
Oct 2, 2023
As always, it depends: First look is the area: on-premise server (your own hardware) or in the cloud? If you want to use your own server, look at the operating system? In my opinion, SQL Server fits best on Windows; Oracle on Unix/Linux.  Next is your size of data and the application you want to use: rule of thumb: the more data, the more I tend to Oracle; but Oracle is not 'automatically better'! You need an expert to configure the system for optimal use! A simple setup is often not enough! (There are a lot of screws you can turn, but turning the wrong ones is a negative! And more Hardware is not the solution to a slow system). I think the first step is to look at which app creates and consume which data, where in your network is your data needed and then decide the RDBMS. I have worked for years in a mixed environment; we use a large Oracle RDBMS on AIX to store the large amount of data of several production systems; but also some SQL Server RDBMS to distribute data for some evaluations or reports. In the Oracle RDBMS are 30 Years of data of the whole production process; in SQL Servers are consolidated data for reporting. So first make a compilation of your existing data and application and the future requirements; then you can decide; and the result can also be a mixed world!
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Abdellateef Hasan - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 5, 2023
Your decision should ideally be based on: - The specific needs and existing infrastructure of your organization. - Cost considerations. - Desired features and potential future scaling. - Expertise available within your organization or your hiring intentions. I can provide a comparison based on the characteristics of Microsoft SQL Server's Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database's Enterprise Edition: 1. Licensing and Cost: - SQL Server: Historically, SQL Server has been considered to be more cost-effective than Oracle. Microsoft offers both core-based and CAL (Client Access License) based licensing options. - Oracle: Oracle is often perceived as more expensive, with its licensing based primarily on cores (with considerations for hyper-threading). There are also additional costs for add-on features which might be included in other platforms. 2. Platform Integration: - SQL Server: Tends to have better integration with other Microsoft products like Windows OS, .NET, Azure, etc. - Oracle: Oracle offers a wide range of integrated tools, but the integration might not be as smooth with non-Oracle products. 3. Performance: - Both databases are enterprise-grade and offer high performance, but the actual performance can depend on the specific use-case, database design, hardware, and many other factors. 4. Features: - SQL Server: SQL Server offers features like Always On Availability Groups, Columnstore Indexes, and integration with tools like Power BI. - Oracle: Offers advanced features like Real Application Clusters (RAC), Exadata optimizations, Advanced Compression, Partitioning, etc. Some of these features, however, come with additional licensing costs. 5. Ease of Use: - SQL Server: Often considered more user-friendly, especially for those organizations already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem. - Oracle: Might have a steeper learning curve, but offers flexibility and depth for those familiar with it. 6. Cloud Integration: - SQL Server: Has tight integration with Azure, Microsoft's cloud solution. - Oracle: Oracle Cloud offers various services tailored to the Oracle Database, and the company has been pushing its cloud services aggressively.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
49%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How do you run Oracle Database at your organization and why?
My company has been using Oracle Exadata Database Service for some years now, and we are happy with it. I will allow myself to answer your questions about why and what benefits it provides us with ...
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Do you know of any disadvantages of Oracle Database?
Undoubtedly, Oracle Database is a top product in its category. But it does have its disadvantages, and for me and my organization, that has been the limitations of the product. When it comes to Ora...
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What is the best use for Oracle Database?
Oracle Database is flexible and can be used for many things. My company's main use case for this product is for storing data. We benefit from its high level of security as well as from the fact tha...
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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 you are using. If you compare the product to others in this category, the price...
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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 smaller pieces so the machines can easily deal with it. However, this comes with a h...
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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 connect the two, out of security concerns and to keep things separated for our own pur...
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Also Known As

Oracle 12c, RDBMS
Microsoft SQL Server, MSSQL, MS SQL
 

Overview

Oracle Database is a top-ranking multi-model database management system by Oracle Corporation. Through Oracle database services and products, clients receive cost-optimized and high-performing versions of Oracle Database, as well as in-memory, NoSQL, and MySQL databases. The solution is available by several service providers on premises, in the cloud, or as a hybrid installation. It can be run on vendor servers as well as on Oracle hardware, including Exadata on-premise, Oracle Cloud, or Cloud at Customer.

Users can select from various types of Oracle Database solutions, depending on what they aim to do with this product. Based on their specific needs, they can choose among options that include:

  • Autonomously managed Oracle databases: This type of database eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle Database, while simultaneously ensuring high levels of performance, scalability, and availability for users.

  • Oracle Database on Exadata: Users who seek particularly fast platforms can select this type of running solution. Exadata is a computing platform that is optimized for running Oracle Databases and it serves as the fastest platform for Oracle Database.

  • Oracle Database on-premises deployment: The product allows for deployment on-premises for clients who have data residency and network latency concerns. This option also offers customers the benefit of updated Oracle Cloud technology, including Exadata and Autonomous Database.

  • Oracle Database in the cloud: Organizations can use a specific version of this tool in the cloud, benefiting from complete control over the versions they run and when these versions change.

Part of this product is a fully automated database service called Oracle Autonomous Database, which facilitates the development and deployment of application workloads for organizations. It is built on Oracle Database as well as on Oracle Exadata. This service supports various data types and simplifies application development and deployment from modeling and coding to extract, transform, load process (ETL), data analysis, and database optimization. The service achieves high results in:

  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Security for online transaction processing (OLTP)
  • Analytics
  • Batch
  • Internet of Things (IoT) workloads

Oracle Database Features

Oracle Database has various features which users can utilize in their work with the solution. Among these features are the following:

  • Backup and recovery: Oracle Database ensures the integrity of users' data in system failure situations. This feature utilizes a tool named Recovery Manager (RMAN), which allows administrators to perform cold, hot, and incremental database backups, as well as point-in-time recoveries.

  • Clustering: This feature enables high availability of systems in order to run without interruption of services on occasions when one or more servers in a cluster fail. Included is a tool called Oracle Real Application Clusters.

  • Data dictionary: Through this set of internal tables and views, Oracle Database can be administered more efficiently.

  • Logical data structure: Through its feature for logical data structure, Oracle Database stores data in a way that allows users to interact with the database without knowing where the physical storage of the data is located.

  • Memory catching: Through the memory caching architecture feature, users can scale up very large databases and still perform at a considerably high speed.

  • Partitioning: This feature allows users to divide large tables into different pieces and store the pieces across storage devices.

Oracle Database Benefits

Oracle Database offers its users various benefits. Some of these include:

  • The solution decreases costs for organizations and provides a high return on investment (ROI) through the multiple services and features it offers.

  • Oracle Database has high-security protection which includes encryption, key management, data masking, and activity monitoring, that secures organizations' data within the tool.

  • The tool offers users the ability to use a single database for all data types, simplifying the process for them.

  • Oracle Database can be deployed in multiple places, including data centers and public and private clouds, which allows great flexibility for users.

  • The product allows applications from different platforms to communicate with the database through its networking stack.

  • Oracle Database is ACID-compliant, which helps maintain data reliability and integrity.

Reviews from Real Users

Paul S., president at Advance Consulting Enterprise, likes Oracle Database because it gets the job done, doesn't fail, and suitable for massively scalable applications.

An Oracle DBA at a computer software company describes Oracle Database as reliable with good performance and very good stability.

Oracle

SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) by Microsoft. The product's main purposes are to store data and retrieve it as requested by other software applications - on the same computer or on another computer across a shared network. The solution is built on top of Structured Query Language (SQL), which is a standardized programming language used for relational database management.

The product is tied to Transact-SQL (T-SQL), which is an implementation of SQL from Microsoft that adds several proprietary programming extensions to the standard language. SQL Server is built similarly to other RDBMS products, as its structure is a row-based table that connects related data elements in different tables to one another. One of its most important components is the SQL Server Database Engine, as it controls data processing, storage, and security. Beneath the Database Engine is the SQL Server Operating System, which is used for memory and I/O management, locking data to avoid unneeded upgrades, and job scheduling.

The solution has four editions with different sets of services and tools. They include:

  • SQL Server Developer
  • SQL Server Expression
  • SQL Server Standard 
  • SQL Server Enterprise

The first two are available for free and are typically utilized by smaller companies, as they work with fewer functions and storage. The second two editions are generally used by bigger organizations and enterprises and offer more features.

The solution has several functions through which users can facilitate different data-related processes. These include:

  • Aggregate functions: These functions are used to calculate one or more values and return a single value.

  • Window functions: Window functions calculate an aggregate value based on a group of rows and return multiple rows for each involved group.

  • Date functions: These functions allow clients to handle data and time data efficiently.

  • String functions: Through the string functions, SQL Server processes an input string and returns a string or numeric value.

  • System functions: The system functions of the product return objects, values, and settings.

SQL Server Services

SQL Server has a wide range of add-on services that provide additional benefits beyond database management. These services include:

  • Machine learning: SQL Server machine learning services allow users to do machine learning and data analytics within the product.
     
  • Service broker: This feature is a part of the database engine and offers messaging and message queuing for applications on the platform.

  • Replication: This feature consists of transaction replication, merge replication, and snapshot replication. 

  • Analysis: SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) adds online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining capabilities to SQL Server databases.

  • Reporting: This feature supports the development of custom reporting applications.

  • Notifications: This feature generates data-driven notifications which are sent to subscribers of Notification Services.

  • Integration: This SQL Server feature provides capabilities for data integration, data import, and data warehousing.

  • Full-text search: Through this feature, users can utilize specialized indexing and query for unstructured text stored in the solution.

  • Visual studio: This feature supports data programming with SQL Server.

  • Azure Data Studio: This is a cross-platform query editor that can be downloaded and used alongside SQL Server.

SQL Server Benefits

The solution has many benefits for users. These include the following:

  • The platform ensures a consistent experience across other platforms while being fast and agile.

  • Through the built-in intelligence features, users can understand their data better.

  • The solution has enterprise-level security, which ensures the smooth and safe performance of users' data.

  • SQL Server offers the ability to retrieve large amounts of data quickly and efficiently.

  • The product installation process is fairly easy, and it offers a user-friendly interface.

  • SQL Server offers improved data storage and retrieval functions through frequent upgrades.

  • The solution reduces the risk of database server attacks, since it is not an open-source database.

Reviews from Real Users

A president at a consultancy evaluates SQL Server as a veteran solution with critical log shipping feature. 

Harkamal S., a user at a manufacturing company, rates SQL Server with a high mark because it is a stable, scalable, and easy-to-deploy solution that pretty much covers everything.

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Sample Customers

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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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