Oracle Data Guard Reviews

Name: Oracle Data Guard
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4 (25 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

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Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

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Oz Pozner

Head of Product - CloudHome at Bynet

Feb 16, 2022

The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful. Its support should also be improved.

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AdnanKamarudin

Database Engineer at Dagang NeXchange Berhad

Nov 17, 2023

What is our primary use case Our current practice involves monitoring the continuous flow of data to ensure that the gap remains consistently at zero. If the gap increases, it is often due to issues such as a stalled work process or disruptions in the data shipping process. In such cases, our…

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SrikanthS

Senior Manager - Technical at Sify Technologies

May 6, 2022

What is our primary use case We moved from on-premises to a private cloud. Only our ERP admins use this solution, so it's about five people. What is most valuable? The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test…

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Pricing

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Oracle Data Guard vary depending on negotiations with Oracle. The license is considered expensive compared to other database systems. However, considering the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is deemed a very good product. It is recommended to check with Oracle to ensure optimal product usage.

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

Room For Improvement

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"The product could improve its pricing."

Pricing

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."
"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."
"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

Room For Improvement

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."
"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."
"The product could improve its pricing."

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Learn more about Oracle Data Guard

Oracle Data Guard was previously known as Active Data Guard.

Oracle Data Guard is the #21 ranked solution in best Backup and Recovery Software. PeerSpot users give Oracle Data Guard an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle Data Guard is most commonly compared to Veeam Backup & Replication: Oracle Data Guard vs Veeam Backup & Replication. Oracle Data Guard is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 16% of all views.