Oracle Essbase vs SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer comparison

Oracle and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Oracle is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.9, while SolarWinds is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.5. Oracle holds a 0.9% mindshare in DDM, compared to SolarWinds’s 5.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

Oracle Essbase

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90% willing to recommend

Oracle Essbase

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Essbase and SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer compete in the database management and analysis market. Oracle Essbase has an edge with its multidimensional database management, while SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers stronger database performance monitoring and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Oracle Essbase supports complex calculations and data aggregation, making it ideal for business analytics. It features strong multidimensional analysis, sophisticated drill-down capabilities, and excels in handling large data volumes. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer provides real-time performance metrics, advanced anomaly detection, and a centralized dashboard for managing multiple databases, enhancing database optimization and management.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Essbase requires a simplified deployment process, improved user interface, and enhanced integration with other tools. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer could benefit from deeper AI and ML integration, more extensive reporting options, and enhanced support for additional database types. Both could focus on better user training resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Essbase is noted for its complex deployment and need for technical support, while SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer offers straightforward installation and excellent customer support with real-time assistance and robust resources for client needs.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Essbase involves a substantial initial investment but offers potential long-term ROI in strategic applications. Conversely, SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer provides competitive pricing and strong immediate ROI through improved performance and reduced operational inefficiencies.

To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Essbase vs. SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer Report (Updated: November 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Essbase

Ranking in Database Development and Management

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SolarWinds Database Perform...

Ranking in Database Development and Management

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Essbase is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is 5.7%, down from 8.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer	5.7%
Oracle Essbase	0.9%
Other	93.4%

Database Development and Management

Featured Reviews

Bhavya N

Senior System Engineer at Infosys

Ensuring efficient data analysis and reporting while identifying areas for calculation and export improvements

The features of Oracle Essbase are valuable, such as its multi-dimensional database used for dynamic calculations and reporting purposes. These features are valuable because they support multi-dimensional data views, allowing users to analyze relationships across various data categories and establish a comprehensive perspective on business operations. Moreover, dynamic calculations allow real-time data analysis, significantly improving the accuracy and depth of financial insights. I have utilized Essbase's data aggregation capabilities. The Oracle Essbase interface provides a good user experience, allowing users to easily navigate and analyze data with fast query performance, effective data visualization tools such as charts, graphs, and tables, and flexibility for customizable analysis and reporting, including the ability to create ad hoc reports. The benefits of the interface include improving productivity and enhancing decision-making.

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Ravi Khanchandani

Founder Director at Techsa Services

Excels in identifying various database performance issues, including long-running queries, wait times, deadlocks, and other performance-related issues.

There's room for improvement on the dashboarding side. Specifically, the health dashboard of the database instances. Some of my customers deal with a large number of monitored database instances. It would be beneficial if they could have a single dashboard for instances, for example, from number one to thirty. This way, I could monitor all these 30 instances and quickly identify any performance issues on any of them. The dashboarding capability definitely needs improvement. In future releases, there should be custom reports and dashboards are crucial. Not everyone needs to see the same page every time. For example, if I'm interested in MYSQL databases, I should have a view that focuses only on MYSQL databases. Customization like this, where users can tailor their dashboards to specific needs, is essential for improving the product.

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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

"Oracle's capability to define custom hierarchies and dimensions has helped my organization in performing nuanced data exploration and advanced modeling because we use Oracle Essbase for dimension definition and also to define the properties of these members, such as dynamic members, stored members, shared members."

"The solution can handle a large volume of data."

"The Oracle Essbase interface provides a good user experience, allowing users to easily navigate and analyze data with fast query performance, effective data visualization tools such as charts, graphs, and tables, and flexibility for customizable analysis and reporting, including the ability to create ad hoc reports."

"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."

"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."

"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."

"The solution is scalable."

"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."

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"The platform solves and prevents delays in receiving answers from databases."

"Monitoring is most valuable, and being able to know that there is an issue or problem and I need to go look is also valuable. So, monitoring and learning are the most important features."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is anomaly detection. It alerts you when things outside the norm are happening, and the feature that analyzes your indexes informs you if you have wide or overlapping indexes. It also helps identify SQL query bottlenecks, letting you know if something is taking longer than usual, if a query plan has changed, and if you need to update statistics. In terms of usage, it is straightforward to use, learn and understand. The patching process is smooth and explains each feature, including links to external resources for further reading."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer can help us identify issues we cannot see manually."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer's most valuable features include the notification of consuming the SQL queries, collecting data, and notifying about managing space and tables."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the support for older databases and the ability to manage them in a centralized dashboard."

"In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network layer, database layer, or elsewhere."

"What I like most about SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is that it's a powerful solution that lets me advise customers about performance, and it also gives a lot of supporting information."

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Cons

"The initial setup is pretty complex."

"The main concern is that Oracle is ending on-premises server support, so it would be better if there was a cloud platform available for Oracle Essbase."

"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."

"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."

"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."

"The solution could enhance business analytics. I delved into the data using Oracle Essbase to create a new support tool."

"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."

"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."

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"It is capable, but I don't believe it has the right value matrix. It also depends on the budget of the company."

"The solution should add little details on the server so that an independent team could easily do the implementation."

"The areas where it currently lags are in reporting and dashboarding. The reports and dashboards are somewhat static, and we cannot create custom dashboards for specific customer needs."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should be easy to implement and it should have more facilities to make it better."

"One area where the tool could improve is by adding support for additional databases. For instance, supporting newer databases like Couchbase or MongoDB would be beneficial."

"There is room for improvement with the pricing of the platform."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should provide customization options allowing users to add different columns."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer should include more details on how everything works."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Essbase is competitively priced."

"It is a costly solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"I believe the licensing is on a monthly base."

"SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a little bit expensive."

"There are no extra costs for maintenance or using the solution's support."

"Customers need to pay for the subscription-based license annually."

"The pricing of the solution is average."

"I don't remember the exact licensing cost for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer, but it's within the range of $2,000 to $3,000 a year."

"It could be less expensive."

"The pricing is fairly reasonable, and it becomes more cost-effective with larger volumes of instances."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Healthcare Company

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Essbase?

It's not that expensive, but also not cheap. I'm not sure because it's a private license.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Essbase?

A significant area for improvement in Oracle Essbase is that financial statement analysis, CAPEX and OPEX analysis, and financial consolidation must be done manually, as Oracle Essbase doesn't incl...

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Essbase?

The initial setup of Oracle Essbase is dependent on whether you select BSO or ASO cubes. First, you need to set up the type of information and once the type of cubes is defined, you need to define ...

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?

In IT, problems often occur in areas such as applications, web interfaces, or databases. The tool allows users to easily determine the root cause of these issues, whether they stem from the network...

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?

One area where the tool could improve is by adding support for additional databases. For instance, supporting newer databases like Couchbase or MongoDB would be beneficial.

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer?

We use SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer for performance monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting performance issues. It's mainly related to performance and the database community. Database a...

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Also Known As

Essbase

Confio, SolarWinds DPA, Ignite8

Overview

Oracle Essbase is an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) Server that provides an environment for deploying pre-packaged applications or developing custom analytic and enterprise performance management applications.

Oracle

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer is a powerful monitoring service that allows customers to monitor their databases. It offers system metrics such as RAM consumption, IO, network traffic, etc. The service is available for both on-prem and cloud deployments, making it a versatile solution for businesses of all sizes.

The most valuable feature is its ability to monitor and learn from the data it collects, helping identify issues and problems before they become major problems, and saving businesses time and money. The service also provides supporting information for performance advising, which helps optimize database performance.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

CHU de Rennes, Bellco Credit Union, Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd, Deutsche Telekom AG, Samarco MineraÊo S.A., PCCW Ltd., QDQ media S.A.U., Boiron Italia, Specialized Bicycle Components Inc., Akindo Sushiro Co. Ltd., Air Canada, Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd.

GSI Commerce, Liquid Digital Media, ProLogis, Indiana University

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