Oracle Database Reviews

The most important features are container and pluggable database. Now we have more control on the resource level, resource planning, where we can segregate our application based on the pluggable database and utilize the resources better.

The hardware cost and the maintenance cost, because we don't need to buy multiple servers. We don't need to engage so many DBAs. Instead we can put multiple databases in one container database.

Stability features should be there. And the performance, we are not expecting better performance as of now. They must include bug fixes and release a better version of their 12c Database.

It is pretty stable, but since it's only the very first version they released, I would say probably they're going to fix it in release 2.

It scales well so far, no issues at all, but some of the advanced features are pretty expensive, especially on engineered systems like Exadata.

We are getting good results for service requests, but sometimes we see too much delay. Sometimes we see their investigation is going in the wrong direction. They have to improve a bit in order to provide support. 

For example, I have three or four service requests going on with Oracle, and I have seen so many delays, and asking unnecessary questions, which I would not have expected from Oracle.

Upgrading is not an issue. As long as our application is supporting the upgrade. We can upgrade from 11g to 12c without any issues. 

But we have seen issues where we are upgrading our databases from 8i or 9i to 12c. Those versions are still not very compatible with 12c.

We have been with Oracle Database for a long time. Our products are stable on Oracle Database except some performance issues.

My advice is to check the application side, what applications they are going to attach to Oracle Database. Make sure the applications are fully compatible with the Oracle Database.

• Reliability of the database
• High availability

It is good as it is. I've seen the product evolve over a period of time so it is great as it stands right now.

There's always hope for improvement because it's getting bulkier and bulkier. I wish that it would get a little smaller, smaller inside the footprint.

The only other thing I can think of is, perhaps, a voice control command.

It's always been stable and we believe it will continue to be stable.

In my organization we don't have the need for scalability as much because we are a fixed size. We grow very organically so scalability is not an issue for us.

Absolutely, support is huge for us, to be able to get the best quality support. They are pretty reliable. We have good Oracle support, direct Oracle support. OTN (Oracle Technology Network) we use them a lot, so Oracle support and the online, those two.

In terms of getting to the right person, sometimes it's a hit or a miss but mostly, eventually, it works out.

No, this was the first solution that was implemented. It has stood the test of time, always a good thing.

It's straightforward.

When it comes to choosing to work with a vendor we look for the value proposition. Price to performance, the ratio, that is the biggest thing to look at.

Oracle Database is value for money.

Choose the vendor, horses for the courses. Choose the right vendor and just move forward.

Ease of the database. 

I can't think of anything to improve the database features.

More than 12 years.

Stable, absolutely.

It's scalable, it will meet the needs of our company, moving forward.

I had some issues that were resolved by the Oracle support team. There was an issue that I reported myself and the response time was adequate, within expectations. Eighty percent positive.

I don't know. From the time I was employed here it was already installed and working and up and running.

At first, when I was in the learning stage it was a bit difficult to install with Linux or Unix in the environment. Only with Windows can you can install it using a wizard. 

You should have some knowledge, to be familiar with it, the product for installing and plan managing. It was not easy.

We were using Oracle Streams, that is deprecated right now. Before we changed it to Oracle GoldenGate we were just using Streams.

I recommend this product. It's stable, advanced, I think it's the number-one database.

• It's a leading relational database brand; that makes it valuable
• There's a good amount of knowledge on the market
• Availability of skills
• It's quite a mature product
• Very advanced now
• Market leader.

It is already a market leader. The latest comparison to products like SAP HANA, and in-memory computing, and container computing, container-based database structures; these are the areas where I think there is good competition.

I've been using it about 20, 25 years.

It's a very stable solution. You have to configure it to your requirements. It's one of the leading databases. You can have a mission-critical database system to make it available 24/7.

We have 24/7 platforms, from development databases to mission critical databases, they all run on Oracle.

Very scalable.

Good. Their normal ticketing system, their incident management system is quite responsive. All their large accounts have a technical Account Manager. You have your OCI, your Oracle Customer Identifier. Using your OCI, customers can put in their tickets, incidents.

I would recommend it

The best aspect of Oracle Database is that it allows integration of our ERP and EPM suite of applications and databases. It's integrated tightly together, and we prefer that, as we think it's best to stick with a single vendor as much as possible to avoid dealing with multiple vendors in case of any issue. We can scale it up, upgrade and it is supported by Oracle's customer support program. It is secure and reliable, which gives us peace of mind. If we went with a third-party tool, there's always the issues of compatibility. If we do upgrades and there are issues, we'd have to talk to both the third-party vendor and Oracle.

I think that avoiding complications and compatibility issues is the biggest advantage of keeping our Oracle ERP and EPM products together. I work with a lot of the compatibility settings, and Oracle has done a great job with the matrix inter-dependencies and patch-up ligation. For example, I just upgraded our Hyperion system so I had to got through all the settings and configurations for databases, browsers, Java, OS, and servers. I, as an administrator, have to have enough technical knowledge to understand all the inter-dependencies.

That's the advantage of using Oracle's RDMS solution -- we can use other Oracle products.

It needs a better, less technical interface. I'm not an expert on our RDBMS as we have our own database administrator, so especially on a Linux environment Oracle needs to make progress on the user-friendliness of the UI.

In my opinion, I've found Microsoft SQL Server to be more user-friendly than Oracle Database. Even though the latter is more complex, more robust, and has more capacity, from a user perspective, especially those who are naive or functional, it needs to be more user-friendly.

I've asked my DBA to do something for me so I can try to learn from him, but if it were more user-friendly with a more graphical implementation that tells you all the variation criteria and failure messages, that would be much better.

We've had no issues deploying it. It's quite simple.

It's quite stable for being capable of doing so many things. It's powerful, fast, reliable, and secure.

We have had no issues scaling it for our needs.

You should consider whether you're going to go physical or virtual, Windows or Linux, etc. You should do your due diligence and know what you want.

We decided to put Essbase and Database on Linux. We put everything else on Windows, the reason being that our databases needed more resources and liability. Linux provides more security for databases, and it's a more robust setup for a Linux admin. So be sure to consider this before jumping into an implementation of the Oracle RDBMS solution.

Some of the valuable features are flash back, RMAN, and Oracle secure backup.

It has reduced our backup time.

I would like to see Oracle support fix issues faster after we log a complaint.

I did not encounter any issues with deployment.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

Customer service is very good

Technical support is not very good.

We did not evaluate another solution.

The setup was easy.

We implemented in-house.

The ROI is unknown.

We did not evaluate other solutions.

Some of the valuable features are Oracle Wallet and Data Guard. We are also using the GRANT feature for high scalability.

It has helped us in terms of the higher scalability, higher response time, and good performance with the other features. It is also stable.

The I would give the stability a rating of 8/10.

It's highly scalable, I would say.

We did use technical support. You just call Oracle support and they are good.

We have been using Oracle database for a long time. We prefer Oracle database, because it is more stable and has lot of support for most of the application. When looking for a vendor, I look to see if it a stable solution, if it has good support, and if the initial installation is well-documented.

The setup gets complex sometimes, when you don't use the products that are supported. If I used REL, versus Oracle Linux, you get no support on Oracle Linux, rather than REL.

We couldn't go for Oracle Linux, because we have everything on REL. That took time to setup.

We chose Oracle because it has more features than the other products. The integrations points are easy. It is better than many other products because it has better integration.

I think they'd need a little bit of training, but once they know the ins and outs, it is more robust. As long they have the training, and understand the basic architecture, and then it is easy to use.