Oracle Essbase vs Toad Data Modeler comparison

Oracle and Quest Software are both solutions in the Database Development and Management category. Oracle is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.9, while Quest Software is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.0. Oracle holds a 1.1% mindshare in DDM, compared to Quest Software’s 3.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

Oracle Essbase

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100% willing to recommend

Toad Data Modeler

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94% willing to recommend

Oracle Essbase

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Oracle Essbase and Toad Data Modeler are enterprise data management tools with distinct functionalities. Toad Data Modeler is perceived as having the upper hand due to its specialized features and better value at its price.

Features: Oracle Essbase provides advanced multidimensional analytics, scalable architecture, and seamless integration with Oracle solutions. It’s excellent for handling complex analytics tasks. Toad Data Modeler is known for its intuitive database design tools, support for multiple databases, and ease in creating and editing models.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Essbase could improve in user interface simplicity, reduce its high resource requirement, and enhance real-time data processing capabilities. Toad Data Modeler could benefit from enhanced integration with non-database tools, improved data visualization features, and expanded support for emerging database technologies.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Essbase offers extensive deployment options with comprehensive customer support, tailored for large enterprises. Toad Data Modeler provides a straightforward installation and user-friendly service experience, ideal for smaller, technical teams seeking simplicity.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Essbase generally has higher setup costs, reflecting its focus on intensive data analytics, providing significant ROI for analytics-heavy enterprises. Toad Data Modeler offers a more economical option with lower initial costs, delivering attractive ROI for organizations focusing on database design over extensive analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Essbase

Ranking in Database Development and Management

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

4.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Toad Data Modeler

Ranking in Database Development and Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Oracle Essbase is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad Data Modeler is 3.0%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database Development and Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Toad Data Modeler	3.0%
Oracle Essbase	1.1%
Other	95.9%

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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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KaiQuale

Senior engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

Creates intuitive diagrams with comprehensive control over relationships

1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that you don't want to delete each one. 2) If one could view the same model on physical, logical, and conceptual levels while retaining all information specific to each level (including layout), that would be excellent.

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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

"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."

"Oracle Essbase enables organizations to take their strategic decisions, which helps them make the right decisions at the right time."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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"The feature I really like is the graphical part, especially the control of the relationships."

"I found all features valuable and necessary in Toad Data Modeler, particularly how good the solution is for modeling, database schema generation, and database re-engineering. I also found Toad Data Modeler straightforward to use."

"It is not feasible for small businesses. It is not used in a small company."

"Auto-complete is the best feature of the solution."

Cons

"The initial setup could be simplified."

"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 reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."

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

"The initial setup is pretty complex."

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

"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."

"They should improve the solution's performance."

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"It is not feasible for small businesses. It is not used in a small company."

"The product should provide better debugging features."

"Many users don't know how to add licensing to Toad, or where it is shown, so they could make that easier."

"What could be improved in Toad Data Modeler is stability and the complex setup."

"When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest, which is cumbersome."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Essbase is competitively priced."

"The solution is expensive."

"It is a costly solution."

"Price-wise, the lesser it is, the better it is for me, especially in Egypt. I think that the licensing cost ranges from 1,000 to 9,000. Also, it includes maintenance and support for a year."

"Though I'm not involved in the licensing for Toad Data Modeler, I believe it's per user and not cheap."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Energy/Utilities 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	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Modeler?

Considering its functionality, I would rate its pricing as a seven out of ten. It could be cheaper yet is still pretty good.

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What needs improvement with Toad Data Modeler?

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What is your primary use case for Toad Data Modeler?

There are two main use cases. One is reengineering an existing model and making changes from a database. The other is making a new model from scratch. These use cases involve all kinds of systems, ...

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Also Known As

Essbase

Toad

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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Toad Data Modeler helps you create high-quality data models. This data modeling tool enables you to easily deploy accurate changes to data structures across more than 20 different platforms.

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