We performed a comparison between Oracle Multitenant 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."You can scale the solution as needed."
"It's easy to use and works great."
"The database becomes pluggable. Inside this container is called a pluggable database and each application contains this pluggable database inside Multitenant. We can then share resources like control files, memory, etc. This lets you stop and start each application without impacting the others. This resource sharing is the most valuable feature"
"Multitenant has a container database with many pluggable databases."
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"Maintaining databases is a valuable feature for us."
"It's easy to use and fairly intuitive. I do development and data analysis, so we do a lot of work with SSIS and SQL Job Scheduler. Deploying new databases is very simple with things like BACPAC."
"Enables us to convert to bigger DBs and more easily move or upgrade between branches."
"They have improved the UI and ease of accessing the database and server which is good. You can load it up and start using it from the very minute it is implemented."
"The most valuable features for database management in SQL Server are SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio Code with its administration capabilities."
"The latest version supports for big data analytics. SQL Server's vector processing-based batch execution mode is now available to the entire execution of R or Python code. Since much of the work that tends to be done in R and Python involves aggregation, batch mode - which processes rows of data several at a time, can be very helpful."
"The solution offers very high performance."
"Stability is one of the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Server is that it is easy to set up."
"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"It would be beneficial to include this solution with Oracle Enterprise, but Oracle charges additional fees for it."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"The user interface for this solution can be made better."
"This solution is a bit complicated when collecting from containers - that feature should be a bit better."
"Technical support could be faster."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"That said, Oracle in general doesn't invest in their UI for any of their applications. If we're talking about the dashboard or other user experience, there is room for improvement. I'm talking about on premises. The cloud version has started to improve."
"The solution's stability can be improved."
"Security is an issue."
"SQL is a highly unstable server - there are patch updates on the Windows server every week, which is why we only use it for non-critical systems."
"The solution could offer better integration with other solutions - specifically Microsoft."
"The user interface and the reporting could also be improved."
"The interface of the tool has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Our biggest problem with SQL Server is latency. The communication between the cloud and the on-premises environment is slow. The data needs to be encrypted for security, and you have to exchange data certificates between environments. You can adjust the configuration to improve performance, but it would be nice if SQL Server had some templates to resolve problems."
"It may be a licensing issue, but sometimes its operating speed becomes slow if we have multiple users. It's lacking some performance, but it's acceptable because we have a heavy load."
Oracle Multitenant is ranked 16th in Relational Databases Tools with 15 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 259 reviews. Oracle Multitenant is rated 8.4, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Multitenant writes "Databases are automatically upgraded and cloning of pluggable databases requires just one command ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Oracle Multitenant is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database, SAP HANA and MariaDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Multitenant vs. SQL Server report.
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Hi Akin,
First, both DBs manage your relational data on several operating systems (Linux, Windows Server, ...) and as Cloud Services. The newer architecture of Oracle tries to support you in a mixed environment where you can distribute a large DB over your own servers and cloud services. But as we always saw in the past, if a new feature of Oracle is good, Microsoft will follow.
So your main questions should be:
-How big is your DB? The bigger, the more I suggest Oracle.
-Are you in a mixed world (Cloud and your own servers)? If Cloud is Azure, I think SQL Server is a good choice.
-Is the price a topic? The liscence rules of Oracle are sometimes complicated.
Hope this helps a little.
Hi Martin, it is no marketing rumor.
Oracle is the number one in terms of big databases and scalability. But as I wrote, Microsoft is always one step behind.
So if the price is no question and you need the best on the market, Oracle is the choice. But to use the full power, you need someone who knows how to plan and set up the whole environment!
The planning starts with a look at your amount of data, the decision of what response time is necessary, what is the yearly increase of the data,...
I worked on a project with several million transactions a day and we tested Oracle and Microsoft with this result: Oracle was the better. But we must use a lot of tuning features of Oracle and optimize the hardware environment for this task. Shortly, Oracle has a lot of 'screws' to tune, but if you don't know exactly what to turn on, it will fail.
But it is similar to SQL Server. Additional hardware is often not the solution.
Hi Akin,
Without going into the technical details; did you have a look a the pricing of MSSQL and Oracle databases?
I always hear that the Oracle database is better than MS SQL. But I never got to test this myself.
What I do know is that when I tell a customer the Oracle pricing, they are usually going in another direction.
You must have a very good functional reason to go for Oracle considering the price difference. As @Patric Gehl suggested: a very big database is good but for a good reason.
Kind regards,
Martin Zwarthoed