Oracle Database Reviews

It is for my personal use. I am using it for implementing data loss prevention (DLP), for which Oracle Database had to be installed first. I didn't use it for any other product.

Its performance is good. It is also stable and scalable.

Its administration side is very difficult. To install Oracle Database, you need to have some prior knowledge. You must learn their commands. I was new to this, so I found some difficulty in it. Its installation should be easier. 

It is expensive, and it should be cheaper.

I have been using this solution for around six months.

It is stable.

It is scalable. I will continue to use it because it is required for implementing DLP.

I haven't used their technical support.

I installed SQL Server.

You need to have prior knowledge to install Oracle Database. The deployment took three to four hours.

I installed it myself.

It is very expensive. Oracle licenses are expensive.

I would recommend it if it is necessary, but you need to have the budget to purchase it.

I would rate Oracle Database a six out of ten.

You can put any application on Oracle, but it is especially used for financial and billing use cases.

Oracle Database is very flexible.

Two of the valuable features are the Application Clusters and Data Guard.

The price of the Oracle Database should be cheaper.

I have been using Oracle Database for approximately 20 years.

The stability is good, and we plan to continue using it in the future.

This is a scalable product. You can grow, and you can add things to do. We have approximately 10,000 users in our organization.

I use technical support once in a while and I find that they are improving. Over the years, there has been a big improvement in terms of support.

Prior to Oracle, I ran Adabas. Currently, I also use MySQL.

We have done hundreds of installations. Some of them are quick, whereas others take a long time. There is no one answer as to how easy or difficult it is to set up.

We have five database administrations who maintain it.

The pricing is expensive, which is a major issue. We pay a yearly maintenance fee.

The Oracle Database is a monster, with many faces and many parts. It can be used for everything. I cannot see any room for major improvement, other than perhaps the price.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I use Oracle Database to manage my organization's data stores.

Oracle Database has made my organization's data highly available.

It runs on scalable operating systems like Linux, AIX, and Solaris. It uses very many different types of indexes to improve performance. It has automatic memory management capability and large file capability.

The Oracle Database could improve on integration with other infrastructure systems like Active Directory.

We are using the database mainly at the hospital, where I work now. We have been working with Oracle Database to save all the data related to the patients.

Using the product, we make less mistakes, are more organized and faster than if we did it any another way.

• Stability
• Name recognition of the database in the world, as it is maybe the best one.

There are a lot of bugs in the Oracle Database, and it would be better if the bugs would be solved more quickly than they are today.

The bugs could be anything. They could be related to any problem. For example, we had a problem with the physical standby, and the bugs had already been there for a few years in the databases, but not solved in the newer versions.

Since we moved to Linux two years ago, it has been much more stable. We were very happy that we moved.

We are already working in Iraq. We also bought Oracle Database Appliance, and we are happy with that product too.

In general, the support is not good since most of the time the person whom you are given to is not so professional. Though, the last time that we had a big problem with our Database Appliance, we received support from Oracle US, and it was much better.

It is not so straightforward, but it is not so complex.

The price is very expensive for the support.

When I started to work at my company, they were already working with Oracle Database.

Oracle has a very good database, but it is very expensive today, and there are a lot of competitors.

Main criteria for selecting a vendor: 

• Name
• Release of new versions
• Stability.

The best thing about Oracle Database is its being a relational database. There is no other database that can meet the benefits it provides. The data retrieval and access are the main keys, the best features within Oracle.

I'm a technical guy so how I look at data is, it needs to be accessed quickly, preserved safe and secure. Basically, the product should give you peace of mind within the corporation. There shouldn't be any worries as such.

It facilitates a lot of security benefits.

The only major thing that we see right now is the downtime. Whenever there is an upgrade, whenever there is planned, scheduled maintenance, the downtime could be a huge impact for the business itself. That is where other companies are trying to compete, in terms of providing solutions, to avoid the downtime or minimize it.

There aren't really stability issues. Oracle does have a physical real application cluster, RAC. It does minimize the downtime.

It's absolutely scalable. The 12c version is way more scalable than how it was in the 11g version. It does solve that problem.

I'm the one who resolves the tickets. We don't use tech support.

I'm pretty new to working here at PayPal. But they have had Oracle for so many years. And so many companies that I've worked for in the past, like Best Buy, Cargill, Cisco, all these companies have Oracle at a very large scale.

Even though it is really expensive compared to other databases, like SQL and other non-SQL databases out there, Oracle has been like a monopoly. They are very high, premium. Still, consumers want to use it because it meets customers' needs. 

It's pretty simple to use. You pretty much find all the technical stuff online even if you are a newbie, for you to get up to speed. It just takes your willingness to learn and understand it.

The reliability and speed of Oracle Database are its most valuable features. The amount and complexity of data it can handle is really great, especially in agribusiness.

From a business perspective, it's an enterprise-class database that is extremely reliable. It's rock solid and we never had issues with it. Because of that, we can continue to run our business without fear that something will happen to all the sensitive, business-critical data that have in it.

I think that technically, it's nearly a flawless product. But, when it comes to pricing, it's very expensive. In fact, it's quite a bit pricier than probably its closest competition, Microsoft SQL Server.

Also, even though it may seem easy to install, you have to follow the documentation closely because there are some things that may cause you to trip up.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had absolutely no issues with instability. It's incredibly stable, which is one of the reasons we chose it despite the price.

It's been scaling just fine for us. We've had no issues with adding more and more data.

The initial setup should be pretty straightforward, and it was for us. However, you should know what you're doing to have a successful setup. You should get training if you don't have experience.

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.

Compared to something like Microsoft SQL Server, it's quite a bit pricier. Oracle Database is the better product, but you definitely pay for that advantage.

It's a very powerful, stable tool. You do have to follow the instructions closely during setup and you have to be willing to pay a premium for a superior product.

The most valuable features for us are its capability and reliability. It's the best performing database solution I've used, and it's dependable, rarely going down or exhibiting instabilities.

We have a lot of applications that are critical to our business running on Oracle Database. I think it's pretty feature rich, although we don't use all of the features that are available. It's a very solid platform for applications, giving us confidence in the data it maintains and our access to it.

There are so many applications that run with Oracle Database that it's difficult getting our various IT personnel to get tested and certified for it. It's like herding cats. And although the upgrades are not technically difficult, it is difficult to manage all the applications and the people who work with it.

We're mostly on version 11.2.0.4. We've played just a little bit with version 12.

We've had no issues with deployment.

It's very solid. We've had no issues with Oracle DB being unstable. Again, its reliability is one of the best features for us.

We have not had to scale it to a great degree, but we've had no real issues with capacity and we have confidence that Oracle DB will scale as needed.

Technical support is generally quite good. We've been overall very satisfied with Oracle's support.

I was involved in the setup of it 25 years ago and it was a transition to Unix at the time. I can't say it was that straightforward, but It was also not unexpectedly complicated.

We generally do a major Oracle version upgrade every year or two and do a major patch upgrade at least once a year if we don't do a major version upgrade. We do upgrades in-house.

I've seen that things are evolving very fast since we first installed Oracle DB 25 years ago and since I've been a DBA for the last 30 years. We've got a lot of expertise in database administration. Honestly, that's being de-emphasized by the cloud offerings for the whole data center. Having people look at rack hardware and install the operating system is being de-emphasized. I think somebody starting out, if they are a not a big operation, they ought to look seriously at using the cloud as an alternative to having to support a lot of IT functions in-house.