Oracle Essbase vs SQL Sentry comparison

Oracle and SQL Sentry are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Oracle is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.0, while SQL Sentry is ranked #13. Oracle holds a 0.8% mindshare in DDM, compared to SQL Sentry’s 3.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of SQL Sentry users who would recommend it.

Oracle Essbase

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100% willing to recommend

SQL Sentry

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66% willing to recommend

Oracle Essbase

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Essbase and SQL Sentry are competitive in analytics and performance monitoring. Oracle Essbase is preferred for its advanced analytical capabilities, whereas SQL Sentry leads in performance insights and system management.

Features: Oracle Essbase offers multidimensional database management, intuitive reporting, and robust data handling. SQL Sentry provides powerful performance analysis, alerting functionalities, and optimization tools.

Ease Of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Essbase supports diverse environments with a flexible deployment model and comprehensive support. SQL Sentry is known for a straightforward installation process and strong technical assistance, ensuring efficient deployment of monitoring setups.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Essbase involves higher setup costs but delivers significant ROI through comprehensive analytics. SQL Sentry offers a more accessible pricing model, providing excellent ROI by enhancing system performance and efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Essbase

Ranking in Database Development and Management

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

SQL Sentry

Ranking in Database Development and Management

13th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Essbase is 0.8%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SQL Sentry is 3.8%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Essbase	0.8%
SQL Sentry	3.8%
Other	95.4%

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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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Steve McCubbin

Sql Db Administrator at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Lets you know when your jobs are taking longer than average and allows you to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times

To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product. Another thing that's good about the product is that it will let you know when your jobs are taking longer than average so that you can foretell that there's going to be an issue coming up. Your SQL agent job is taking longer.

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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

"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."

"The solution is scalable."

"It's a very powerful analytical engine with Essbase as the back end. We can analyze, transform, or utilize a big chunk of data for our calculations."

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

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"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."

"Oracle Essbase is a web integration system that integrates with other data systems."

"It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."

More Oracle Essbase pros

"To be able to go back in history and find out what was happening at certain times is the most valuable feature of the product."

"This solution has identified blocking, deadlock, memory pressure, and high CPU consumption issues."

Cons

"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."

"It's an expensive product to use."

"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 include the financial consolidation module that is available in EPM."

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

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

"The consolidation engine, which is HFM or FCCS, needs some room for improvement."

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

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

More Oracle Essbase cons

"There could be some more metrics on the high availability to let us know when there are issues synchronizing between the hosts."

"If we can get details on wait types from system views, it will help identify a more detailed root cause."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Essbase is competitively priced."

"It is a costly solution."

"The solution is expensive."

"It's fairly expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare 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

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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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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.

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