Oracle Database Backup Service Reviews

I provide architectural consulting for end users. I design business continuity, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions and review the customer's entire end-to-end deployment of all of their technology. It's about supporting any number of applications, whether it be enterprise level applications, SAP, different customer applications, trading, financial information, and the like. I'm an implementer. 

I've found the most valuable feature to be the replication and performance tuning; they're used at every site. The feature functionality is nailed in this solution. 

I think deployment of the solution could be streamlined quite a bit. It takes quite an effort when you're bringing it up cold. Patch management could also be streamlined and simplified, keeping up to date with the software and things like that. It's currently unnecessarily complex. 

I've been using this product for 18 years. 

Scalability is outstanding and I think second to none. It scales much better than your mix of PD products like SQL, or MySQL point database products like Apache. All of them scale to some degree or another, but I think scalability is really where Oracle shines.

Experience with technical support is generally good. I happen to have access to the person that writes the textbooks and leads the training classes on performance tuning for Oracle here in Austin, so my experience may be a little bit different than that of a typical end user. Dealing with Oracle support itself is like any other support. It's a crapshoot. Sometimes you get outstanding support, sometimes you get terrible support. Sometimes you can't even understand what the person is saying because their accent is so thick.

The initial setup is overly complex, unnecessarily so.

We've definitely seen an ROI despite this being an expensive solution. It scales better, it's the truest enterprise database software, and I think it's the best. I believe you get the best return on investment with this product. 

It's important to do your homework and have a good understanding of how best to implement best practices. If you're just clicking next, next, next, finish, I think you're opening yourself up to a lot of problems. There are a number of different configuration parameters and different options that, from a performance and stability perspective, aren't the default. Products such as Microsoft SQL, for example, can pretty much be used in the default configuration and you can get away with it without any difficulty. With Oracle, you really need to have an understanding of what you're doing, otherwise you're asking for trouble.

I rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

We are a system integration company. We execute projects for our customers who come from many backgrounds. Some hybrid, some are on the cloud, whereas others are hosted.

It is a part of the DR strategy of every organization and data backup is extremely critical. It's insurance. If nothing happens, it is of no use, but when something happens, the backup is what you rely on.

It's a safekeeping of the data, which creates flexibility in the company.

I like the stability and the scalability of this product.

The interface is good.

All of the features are there.

It's already fast, but still, they could improve the speed.

I have been the Oracle Database Backup Service for more than five years.

The deployment is based on the customer's needs.

It is very stable.

It's a very scalable product.

Technical support is pretty good. It's not a problem.

The installation is very easy, but sometimes you can have a complex scenario.

Generally, it is straightforward.

It takes less than a week to deploy.

Price is always an area that could be made better, as it is quite expensive.

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing cost.

We evaluated Microsoft. I think that Microsoft would be a better choice.

There are many fields in databases and we do many things with them. We can manage services, do backups of in-memory databases, and more.

I wouldn't recommend anything else.

I would rate Oracle Database Backup Service a nine out of ten.