Oracle Database Valuable Features
Ismail Aboulezz
Chief Executive Officer at LeaseWeb
Oracle Database is easy to install, customize, troubleshoot, and maintain. Its data management capabilities include data quality, data integration, data architecture, modeling, and data security, which are very important for data-driven companies. Furthermore, Oracle Database's performance and scalability features meet workload demands, and its continuous updates improve performance and add valuable features.
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Duy AnhMai
Product Owner at Heineken
I use Oracle Database just for storage of the corporate database data and the finance data. However, I find the dashboard to be complicated and not user-friendly.
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Philipp Neumann
Manager of Sales at Muniqsoft Consulting GmbH
The return on investment with Oracle Database is good, providing high performance with the product. The system offers stability with no real outages, errors, or technical downtimes. In respect to these advantages, customers receive a return on their investment.
Oracle Database assists with AI initiatives by providing customers the chance for APEX, which is the low-code platform included in the database. This represents an additional return on investment.
The AI initiatives in Oracle Database represent a very promising direction. With 23 AI, there are many features and fundamentals, with vector search being the most important. These are instruments and tools that help customers improve their business and time to market. Additionally, using the OCI provides the possibility of KI or AI features. This improvement allows customers to have additional return on investment and strengthen their business opportunities.
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Oracle Database
March 2025
Learn what your peers think about Oracle Database. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2025.
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Rafiq Tala'At
NTO, Deputy Chief at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt
The solution is stable. It meets our high availability, resilience, and large-scale data management requirements.
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Istiaque_Bhuiyan
Head of Sale and marketing at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database is a Gartner-listed number one database, renowned for its robust and mission-critical capabilities. It is highly secure, with an architecture that prevents hacking incidents, making it the most secure database available.
The database also supports mission-critical applications and large datasets, providing high availability and reliability. It is equipped with features like autonomous functionality and memory-efficient operations, reducing the need for machine resources.
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Gnanavel-Chakkarapani
Junior Consultant at CMA CGM
The tool supports a large volume of transactions compared to other databases we've used. One feature that had a significant impact is Oracle Data Integrator. It allows us to transfer data from the enterprise database to the data warehouse. This is useful for creating different data sets for finance teams and other departments.
Oracle Database offers encryption and decryption features, which help avoid cyber attacks.It is easy to transfer data from different countries to one location. This helps us provide information to higher management for decision-making.
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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at Inventec
For Oracle's 12c version, the database in-memory enhances query performance by storing data in a columnar format. This makes it faster to access and analyze large datasets. It improves data warehousing and analytics surrounding the API.
Although we embed in MS Azure, the overall cloud technology improves software/hardware revision, database partition extension, data file reallocation, and multi-thread instance issues. For most DBA concerns, Oracle helps resource revision and reduces the efforts of software and hardware ever-upgrading.
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AnkitKumar 1
Assistant General Manager at Hyundai Motor India Ltd
In our day-to-day operations, it's evident that we should have a transaction system. Our channel partners are also onboarded on the same platform, and they do the transaction. We need to track, so we need a single platform. Our internal data management system runs on Oracle Database. The solution has good security features.
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Sumeet Zalpuri
Data engineer at ASR Nederland N.V.
The features are similar to any other database. Our company is a financial organization. Most financial organizations are run on Oracle. Oracle's security features are up to the mark. It is being approved by a person in our organization who controls and governs data. The solution has every security aspect that needs to be there in enterprise software.
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Patric Gehl
Managing Director at rpc GmbH
The most valuable features of Oracle Database for data management are its ability to handle large datasets seamlessly, support for writing custom PL/SQL stored procedures, and its capability to perform complex computations and statistics directly within the database. These features allow us to manage millions of database rows efficiently and run analytical processes on the database machine itself, rather than relying heavily on front-end applications for visualization and support.
reviewer2133219
Information Technology Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is database management, which is good, along with the backup. The server-based programming, PL/SQL, is good.
Paresh_Nayak
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The tool's most valuable feature is its ACID transaction, as it is a consistent way of storing the database. The tool offers an RBAC or a role-based access system, and as per the role, you define the role, and then only those forms, reports, and tables will be accessible to the end user. The tool's features are associated with the data security area I like the most.
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Chris Chris
Group Head, Internal Controls & Compliance at Glico Group Ltd.
The tool is efficient and fast compared to other alternatives. The tool's processing speed is fast, and we've experienced minimal hang-ups. This enables us to address queries within a shorter time frame. I wouldn't say it's just one particular feature, but overall, the efficiency and speed of Oracle Database have had a significant impact. Our support systems are more efficient, allowing us to accomplish tasks quickly.
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Digital System Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very scalable and secure while offering very high performance. I have to ensure our company's system runs twenty-four hours, seven days a week for three-sixty-five days a year. The tool provides me with peace of mind since I know that nothing can go wrong in terms of fraudulent attempts where the product's security can be compromised. The aforementioned parameters are what I look at when it comes to the product.
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Senior Infrastructure Lead at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Stability and availability are the features I like the most in the solution. Transparent data encryption (TDE) is a feature I like the most in the product.
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Satishbabu Gunukula, Oracle ACE
Sr. Tech Systems Architect at Intuitive
Oracle Database offers performance, scalability, reliability, and security which are important for any business.
The Oracle Data Guard helps with high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. It also helps to survive disasters and data corruption while creating, maintaining, and managing one or most synchronized standby databases important to a business.
The Recovery Manager (RMAN) is a great feature for backup and recovery which will enable to per perform cold, hot, and incremental database backups, as well as point-in-time recoveries to protect data.
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Sharique Rizvi
Subject Matter Expert at Cyprobes
The tool's most valuable feature is data encryption. The security features are good. They include field-level security, role-level security, and easy access controls.
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MuhammadFurqan
Senior consaltant at System Limited
We have used the database in different production and environments. It has good features for performance tuning. I am using multiple environments for the Oracle web. The main functions are high availability, scalability, load balancing, and data integration.
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Prajith Chowthee
Independent Consultant at Unaikui
The solution is easy to use. It also offers a Database Vault.
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Eva Kimathi
ERP Database Administrator at PSKENYA
Oracle Database is running on the same old hardware that I had the 11g version on and it is operating faster. It seems to be really good. It's fast even when the workload is heavy, easy to do backups and other administrative tasks with the Enterprise Manager.
Oracle Database can automatically assign resources to threads that are heavy. We hardly notice when they are running a heavy query and it is better at managing memory than the older 11g version. When we use the same amount of indexes when migrating to 19c, I didn't have to do any other modification and we have increased usage on the ERP. The Oracle Database is handling everything very well.
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Lakshman Nimmakayala
Enterprise Cloud Architect at UBS Financial
We're satisfied with the solution. The performance is great.
We find the solution to be stable.
The scalability is very good. You can expand it if you need to.
We don't have any concerns with the data activity and recovery capabilities.
The initial setup is easy.
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Vishal_Goyal
Director Software Engineer at Clarivate
We are fine with the performance and everything they offer.
They are the market leader, therefore we don't have any problems or complaints as of now.
The support is always very helpful and responsive.
The solution is very flexible. It offers a variety of setups.
The stability is good.
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Deepak Nandal
SAM Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It depends on the environment. Most of our customers have been using multitenant options. Advanced Compression and Advanced Security are the most valuable features in most customer environments. And many customers are also leveraging Oracle Diagnostic and Tuning Packs to enhance the performance of the database.
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BINH NGUYEN THAI
IT Project Manager at Nong San Sach online
If we make a mistake on the development side, we can recover it. However, we don't have this capability with other databases.
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Mpho Morake
Group CEO at Mmusi Group
The reporting feature was fine for what we were using it for. Oracle Database has been serving its purpose, and I was happy.
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Tushar Rahatekar
Sr. Systems Analyst at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable and highly available. I also like the row-level locking feature. It can manage billions of rows of data.
The performance is pretty good, and the maintenance is very low.
Oracle Database is easily scalable and has so many enterprise benefits.
The product is so robust and bug-free. It handles anything that is thrown at it. If there are any issues, it's easy enough for our people to identify and fix them ourselves.
Edward Onyango
Database administrator at OS Labs
What we like most about Oracle Database is its security, scalability, and ease of implementation. We also like the performance of the solution.
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Chinthake Ranasinghe
Chief Information Officer at Cjp
The database capability and the security side of the database are the real valuable features. The cloud SaaS model is also valuable.
In terms of support, they are very supportive and always available.
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Kopano Ramaphoi
Consultant at SmartCloud
It performs quite well.
In general, Oracle is quite good. It's a large database that houses many applications.
In terms of backup Basically, I believe that will depend, particularly on backup and those components, on the knowledge that you have. However, if you have the proper knowledge, it should not be a problem for you. The database does not cause problems when properly configured and best practices of database administration are followed.
When compared to others such as Postgres, Oracle is a very good database.
Oracle Database is easy to use.
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JohnMitchell
jmitchell@natbankmw.com at NBM
It is very fast. The response times are very fast.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
One of the most valuable features of Oracle Database is the performance.
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RaviKasibhatla
Chief Executive Officer CEO at IT CROWD S.A.S
The best features of Oracle Database Server are the security, high availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions with Data Guard. Specifically, on Autonomous Databases, the most valuable features are the automatic scaling and CPU scaling depending on the database workload. Today, the workload is normal and then suddenly the workload gets a spike.
There is a feature that allows the database to have more CPU processing and capacity. That's the feature that the Autonomous Databases provide. The feature that we like very much on Oracle Databases is the APEX, the platform which can be used without any cost to develop a very powerful application on Oracle Databases.
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System/Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is a mature product. It is pretty stable. I've got a lot of experience with it, so it is pretty easy to use.
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TanveerAmir
Head of Data Management Section at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oracle is somewhat user-friendly, and most customization or integration with Oracle-related projects is simple. Oracle will assist you if you have Oracle-related projects in your organization. It will not help you if you are different.
The dashboards are good.
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Deputy General Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution integrates well with third-party products.
The high availability that it provides is definitely one of a kind. It's active-active and high availability.
The solution is stable.
The scalability is good.
They have worked to make the initial setup a bit easier.
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Technical Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Partitioning is most valuable.
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Arsen Ghulyan
Deputy Director of Digital Banking at IDBank
The performance and reliability are the best features of the Oracle Database.
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General Manager (IT/MIS) at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The customer care and billing capabilities are very good.
It is very stable. We are getting good performance from it. The reliability is excellent.
It's one of the leading databases on the market.
We get good support on the database side.
The cloud setup is very simple.
The solution works well for enterprise-level organizations.
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Prasad Bagaregari
Enterprise Analytics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database has good performance dynamics with respect to oncoming data and fetching of data which gets loaded. All of the same processes are done by a system database administrator or even user initiated financials.
I've found performance streaming to be a valuable feature.
It is also a stable and scalable solution.
It is easy to install and easy to use as well.
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Paul Stearns
President at Advance Consulting Enterprise
The thing that probably stands out the most about Oracle Database is reliability. I have been working with Oracle Databases for over 25 years, and I have never lost any data due to a machine going down or any events that were not stupid human tricks. I've never lost anybody's data using Oracle. It gets the job done and doesn't fail.
It does what I want it to do. It has got a lot of features. Anytime I need a feature, I am able to find it in Oracle Database. It has never happened that I found a feature in any other database, but I was not able to find it in Oracle.
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PeterKrall
Freelance Software Engineer + Director of a company at Peter Krall Consulting
It is one of the most reliable database systems.
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Vikas Dixit
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of this solution are the performance and its inbuilt services.
In Oracle we can find out most services are inbuilt. scalability, high availability, split brain handling , Null handling ,it working of execution plan . All these features have helped us many times .
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Emmanuel Morka
Head, Database Administrators at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
The solution has been around for a long time, so it's very mature. We've used various versions, from 8 to 12 c. The RDBM has a strong reputation.
The solution is able to run on different types of machines, from IBM AIX to UNIX.
The solution has very robust integrity due to how it is designed and implemented.
The security is very tight. Users can be very sure of Oracle's safety. It has a variety of different security layers that make it very, very safe.
Oracle offers a great disaster recovery tool called Oracle Data Guard, which is fantastic.
The solution has very good failover capabilities. You can do it manually or automate the process if you like. It's all very transparent.
You can query around the rack as well you call it the rack cluster. There's great availability. It helps to handle high availability within the nodes. Even if you have a problem with one server, the others are still available and will continue the job without going down.
We work in a back-end environment that is mission-critical, and we cannot afford downtime. Oracle is a perfect solution, as it will never go down. Customers will always be served at any point without experiencing a delay, which is of vital importance to banking.
Oracle is constantly working to improve its products. It now offers AI and machine learning capabilities to run queries.
There's lots of research and development being done constantly. This ensures they are always one step ahead of other databases.
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Craig Domanski
Infrastructure Manager at Lactanet
The reliability is the solution's most valuable feature. We've had great success with the solution.
The ability to do all the programming we need in one solution is great.
The support has been very good over the years.
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Gichuru Riria
ICT officer at Basaba
The platform's security features and stability are commendable.
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Jeremy Lee
Principal Consultant at SandFil International
The product is very stable. We use it for supporting applications, including data warehousing.
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Anup Babu Shrestha
Technical Manager - Enterprise Application at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd
The most important features of Oracle Database are ease of use and high reliability. I also love the dynamic PL/SQL feature, which I use to generate custom and ad hoc reports.
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Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is the most widely accepted database, and it has built-in technical and security capabilities. It supports the new object in the database. The performance and security are very good, and it is user-friendly. There are a lot of people trained to use this solution which makes it simple to find assistance.
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MOHAMMED SEHEN
IT Supervisor at Nebeaelhate IT
The scalability is very good, and it is stable.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
One of the most valuable aspects of Oracle Database is the maturity of the solution.
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Mudasir Shafi
Testing Lead at Enstoa
It is stable, and its performance is good. Its interface is also fine.
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Business Development Director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
Oracle is a good database with decent performance, which is fortunate because we are required to use this database for our ERP system. Even if we thought Oracle was the worst database in the world, we would still have to use it.
CarlosCastells
CIO at SERVA SERVICIOS ESPECIALIZADOS INFORMATICOS SA
Oracle is used to deploy solutions. The dashboard may be the best solution for intelligent data management, as well as business intelligence.
We believe that Oracle in the cloud is more secure.
It is more scalable on-premises.
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Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Oracle Database is all the functionalities. When we write a code we sometimes have to create an explicit functionality to process the data that we want. At times we find that there is already existing functionality in data created by Oracle itself, it is helpful.
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Amgad Ismail
Department head of gas projects design at ENPPI
The interface is easy to use.
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Christian Niembs
Management Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The features I found most valuable on Oracle Database are the standard features: partitioning and analytic functions.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
Its security and reliability are most valuable.
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KaranDamania
System Admin at First Capitol Bank
The database is a quite valuable feature.
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Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
There is a lot of functionality in Oracle Database. The reports and the GUI are good.
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Professor at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The command interface is very user-friendly. The required commands are not complicated and we are able to easily access the root system.
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Adil Fouari
Oracle Applications Consultant at ASAM Conseil Inc
It's the autonomous database that makes this a valuable product, it's a big feature that Oracle brings to the market. Autonomous patching means that the database more or less patches itself without the need to ask DBAs to apply and test patches. It simplifies the maintenance so this is a strong and autonomous database. They're constantly bringing new features that satisfy their clients. It's a great solution.
reviewer938061
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like the query part and the optimization of the query to get the data. I also like its speedy recovery and stability. In the security part, the loss of data is minimal for any crashes that could happen. First of all, it might not occur, but if it happens, the recovery of the data is smoother than others.
reviewer929742
System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has been scalable.
The stability is good. We find the product to be reliable.
The solution is very easy to use in general.
Its initial setup is quite straightforward. The deployment is fast.
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DGM Data Centre at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
They continue to improve and are always introducing new features.
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Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The Data Guard feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward.
The solution is stable.
The scalability is quite good.
I have always found the technical support to be very helpful.
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Muhammad Asif Ashraf
Technical Development Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability has been very good. Its performance is excellent.
The ease of use has been great.
It's an excellent product. It's a pioneer.
The integration capabilities are very good.
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VarunMohta
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I love the performance tuning feature of Oracle Database because it provides hints and indexing, which are very valuable. Some of its other valuable features are its rack, record key vaults, and backup compression.
reviewer936300
Director Of Sales Marketing at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The thing two things that I like most about Oracle Database are its scalability and performance.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa
The performance is much better than the Microsoft SQL in some ways. The stability has been good so far. It's reliable.
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Florent NOPOUDEM
Senior Database Administrator at ITGStore
Optimization of databases, RAC, Data Guard Replication with Data Guard and RAC Database are the best features. The solution offers many features. We try to tailor the deployment to the needs of the company involved. Some need replication, others optimization and still others, RAC.
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AlaaMedhat
Technical Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oracle is one of the strongest solutions on the market.
The user experience and the tools provided with Oracle are great. For example, there's the SQL developer, and these tools are really easy and user-friendly. You get used to it very fast.
The initial setup is straightforward.
The solution scales well.
We have found the solution to be quite stable.
Technical support is great.
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PCI DSS Program Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The Oracle BI, Business Intelligence, is its most valuable aspect. Oracle BI has been very helpful for me during my career. To have business analytics and to deal with big data with the multiple organizations I've worked for has been great.
The solution is very stable.
We've found the solution to be scalable.
The initial setup isn't too complicated.
The pricing isn't too bad.
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AhmedElbadry
NMS Service Automation & RPA Technical Lead at Vodafone
The database is very easy to use.
We are making some automation scripts. We are working to minimize and reduce the logs and it's very helpful to be able to have the capabilities to do this.
The solution is very stable.
Technical support is helpful.
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Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
It is user-friendly. Its performance and security are also very good. There are 300 million records for our one-year data, and we can easily query this data.
You can use Oracle Database as a source for easily integrating with different databases and applications. It supports Java platforms and other applications very well. It works with SAP products better than Microsoft SQL Server.
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Alvaro Valdes
Information Systems Computer System Controller at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
I like that it's stable. What's good is that Oracle manages the infrastructure. We have got better because they update the server by default or whenever it's needed. They try to fix it server by server because of their own support plans.
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Ayman Said
Infrastructure System's Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)
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Anand Sanghvi
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's a secure market leader.
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Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees
The solution is very stable. The performance is quite good.
The product has been very user-friendly and very easy to use.
The flexibility is very, very good.
You can scale the solution if you need to. Its scalability is good.
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Pedro Simoes
Senior System Administrator / CyberSecurity Analist / SQL Server DBA at Glintt
I like that it's a robust product. It has very good features. One good feature is Oracle RAC because, in SQL Server, we don't have that. SQL Server has something similar (SQL Server AlwaysOn), but it's not the same stuff.
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KopanoRamaphoi
Consultant at Rpc Data
It's quite a big database. I have seen it in companies sized from medium to large enterprise-level. It also works for government organizations that are quite sizeable.
The solution is quite stable. When you work on planning for salaries, you can notice that Oracle is extremely stable.
It's a very flexible product. You are able to accomplish a lot of things.
It's extremely easy to use and the performance is great.
Oracle support is great. They are quite helpful when you run into problems. They help you overcome any issues. If you run into a bug, you contact support, and they solve it.
If you have a stored database with the five standards that Oracle recommends, you will never experience something like, your database being down.
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Head of Department at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The Data Redaction feature is easy to use and we are quite happy with it.
With Oracle, we are happy with the performance the majority of the time. It is only when we have a very large amount of data that it begins to slow down.
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Kevin Honde
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
I found the ease of backup, partitioning, and robust indexing most valuable. The main feature of Oracle is the structure of the database. The way your backups are taken on the online backup system and the way it restores and handles partitioning of your data are also valuable. Its performance is great, and it is also very flexible.
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Senior Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
As compared to SQL Server, Oracle Database performs better when you have a huge amount of data. We didn't face any problems when we had a huge amount of data. There were also no issues with importing/exporting and migrating the data.
Eva Kimathi
ERP Database Administrator at PSKENYA
I have experienced good performance from the solution.
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Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The database performance. We can optimize the database for authorizing expenditure and other resource-heavy functions.
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Oracle DBA at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution's most valuable aspect is its reliability. In about 17 years, I believe I may have lost about 15 minutes worth of data.
Overall, the solution works very well. It has excellent performance.
The solution is very stable.
Especially with VMs, the solution can scale well.
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Omar Al-Qaysie
Senior Chief Engineer at ministry of electricity
Oracle has always been a wonderful database.
It is reliable. It's very stable.
The solution has everything you are looking for in terms of features on offer. It's very complete.
reviewer1458435
DBA Dept. Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is very flexible.
Two of the valuable features are the Application Clusters and Data Guard.
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Delivery Head IT & IS at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability, reliability, and performance are what we are getting with this solution. It is highly scalable and has very good performance. It also has in-built monitoring and optimized optimizer.
It is quite stable and secure. When it comes to integration, you can integrate it with other tools as well. However, we have been using Oracle Database within our own premises. So, it is kind of difficult for us to basically do a kind of integration with the outside software. We prefer to do things within our own premises.
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Ronan-Cunali
Product Manager at MSiT Technology
The backup system is good. We back up all our key marketing data. The integration is a good aspect of Oracle.
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Domain architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to set up on their engineered systems.
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Arief Gunawan
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT
The pricing is very competitive. Oracle is still the number one database company. From the technical aspects, Oracle Database is the best solution for small, medium, and big industries.
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Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The concurrency, consistency, and security features are the most valuable. It is also a very robust solution.
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Alain Orlanes
Manager at WSI
Oracle is simply a reliable data warehouse for us.
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Arief Gunawan
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT
The best feature on Oracle Database is the Data Guard. It's great if you want to build some sort of disaster recovery solution.
ARC is one of the best features. It's quite simple and flexible. It offers really simple guidance that helps make using it a breeze.
On-prem, Oracle is the number one database technology.
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Reegan Varkey
Consultant at Payfront Technologies India Pvt Ltd
The best feature of the solution is the capability of running extreme processes for database processing requirements.
From a database product perspective, I would say, they're good in what they provide. There's not much concern.
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SS36
Software Architeture at Enformatik Yazılım Bilgi Teknolojileri Mühendislik Ltd.
The product provides high availability. I can easily use the product because I have 20 to 25 years of database experience.
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Victor Hugo Morales Vivas
Jefe de Infraestructura y Servicios de TI at Grupo ASD
The most valuable feature of Oracle Database is its responsiveness.
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Senior Developer Individual Contributor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Partitioning is the most valuable feature.
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ABDURRAHIM
Deputy Manager - Radio Frequency Planning at X-Net Ltd.
What is most valuable with the Oracle Database is the performance.
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Anvar Zhaxybayev
Oracle Advisory Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features of Oracle Database are the Data Guard because it does replication and the integration layer, such as GoldenGate.
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Arquitecto Delivery at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable features are the easy ways to build storage capacities and queries. It's a really large and very useful language to process data.
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Group Lead at a security firm with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is the Oracle RAC.
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Senior Manager -Datacenter Planning and Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle Database is very stable. In terms of stability and performance, Oracle is super. On the database side, Oracle is number one in our tests.
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Lawrence Katuruza
Systems Administrator at Dairibord
One of the most valuable features is the stability.
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Ovidiu Vasu
Technical Manager IT Development at Sostenia
The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud and API features.
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CIO at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are two valuable features for us; the security of the solution and the availability that this database offers us. With the increased move to digital processes, availability is very important for supporting our business.
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IT Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I like the enterprise features as well as the stability.
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Data Quality Specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The interface of Oracle Database is very workable and easy to use.
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SAMUELMWANGI
Director at Calidad Systems Limited
Oracle Database is easy to use.
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Lucas Sain
Chief Technology Officer at SYSDE
The main feature of Oracle Database is its performance.
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System Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is easy to use.
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Vice President & Head of IT Governance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very reliable.
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Engineer consultant at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
I have found the most valuable feature to be the performance. We have a large database in my company and there is not likely a solution that has the performance we need.
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Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like the design of the database because it works well. I also like the stability of the solution.
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IT Project Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution is very reliable. The performance is great.
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Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The features that I have found most valuable are things like cluster setup and RAC One. We are using the main CQN and third party plugin support right now. We are relying on different languages support that we are getting from the Oracle side. It is one of the major areas in which Oracle excels compared to other databases.
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Muammer öztürk
Software Development Manager at gama
The database is perfect. It's powerful and fast, and the backup system is wonderful.
It is easy to install as well.
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Mohamed_Farouk
Information Technology Manager at OrchidaSoft
I'm not a regular user of the solution.
It's a great product overall.
The initial setup isn't too difficult.
The product does have a lot of features. However, I've barely explored them.
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Web Developer at a government with 10,001+ employees
The latest version is a lot more organized than the previous version. We can check out the regular files and our dictionaries and our created files, which are a little better organized right now.
The initial setup was pretty simple.
The solution is pretty stable.
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Florent ADODO
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier
This is a powerful solution. It offers us a lot of backup security and we can make an image and a backup of the database every day. It's also very responsive so that when information is updated, it takes less than five seconds to update everything.
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Ossama Benaziz
Operations Director at ALTERSIS Performance
The most valuable feature is that it is a complete product with all of the functionality that you need, and there is no need for any special features.
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Lead - Cloud Engineering at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's been one of the best databases for us. We really enjoy its capabilities.
The product is very easy to use. Users have no problem navigating it and using it.
The solution is extremely stable. It's pretty much issue-free so far.
You can expand it easily. It's scalable.
The initial setup is very straightforward. The deployment is easy.
It's a good default database. Many Windows applications also work on Oracle.
Technical support is very helpful and responsive.
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Data Center Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I primarily use the Oracle Clock feature. For me, it's the most valuable aspect of the product.
The user interface is quite good.
We haven't had any problems with support.
We've found the integration with other solutions to be acceptable.
The stability is great.
We've found the solution to be scalable.
There's a good online community that can help users troubleshoot issues.
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Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is very stable with the performance being very reliable.
We've found that it is very easy to scale the solution.
The installation is very simple and straightforward. The deployment process happens very quickly.
Technical support has always been helpful and knowledgeable.
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Oracle Application Database Administrator at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The data replication is the most valuable aspects of the solution. We've got Oracle Data Guard set up and we've got two sites - one in Johannesburg and one in Cape Town. We do data replication every 30 minutes from one site to the other.
The initial setup is straightforward.
You can scale the solution without any issues.
The great thing about the solution is that it comes with pretty much everything. SQL Developer is part of it, and you can scale databases from 20 users to 50,000 users. It's actually a very solid database.
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Manager, Special Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oracle offers good security and supports customization.
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Deputy Head of ICT at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is an extremely reliable solution with very high system resilience.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at Realnux
Oracle Database has many useful functions and features suitable for big programs and complex business models.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez
Consultant Peoplesoft at NYS Consultoria
The solution is definitely very good for our consultancy on payroll and human resource.
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Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution's most valuable aspect is its reliability. It just works. You never have to worry about it.
I've worked with the solution so well, I have a very strong understanding of it as a whole. I know everything about it. I'm very comfortable with it.
The solution can scale well.
The stability of the product is excellent.
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Bhavien C Nayak
Chief Financial Officer at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
I am not an IT person. I am an end-user of this solution, and based on my experience, it is comfortable to work with. Everything is okay, and the data is timely available. It can also be easily integrated.
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BU Delivery Head at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I like the backend robustness of the database and the security capabilities that are inherently in the product.
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Yasin Bin Wasim
Information Security Engineer at a security firm with 11-50 employees
Its performance is good. It is also stable and scalable.
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Abhijith Palekar
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The procedures work very well.
It's fast compared to other databases.
The syntax options are available in Google.
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Kaan Çelik
Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
I would refer to Oracle's solution like a shield, it is very stable and has many features.
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Data Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It is very easy to use the product.
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Sr. Professional Security Compliance at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I like that the solution has an endless capacity, there are no limitations and it's a stable platform.
reviewer1468959
Oracle Database Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are stability, its backup and recovery, and its performance.
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Khalil Dahham
Senior Lead Developer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
What I like most is the real application security. I have been working with it recently.
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Technical Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The database is very secure, robust, and scalable. It has all the features that you need, such as disaster recovery, replication, backup, etc. It comes with all the features.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The performance of the solution is impeccable.
The simplicity and ease of use is fantastic. Compared to other databases, it's not a complex tool to manage.
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Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This product has a number of features. The feature that I worked with and that excited me the most is one that is not available in other databases, and it involves the use of Java Runtime.
There is also a feature that will trace the transaction and direct them to an FTP server. That was excellent. It is provisioned with very little additional cost.
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Systems Analyst at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We are only really utilizing the solution for database purposes and only taking the database for backup purposes, on a daily basis. The database and getting the required data on the database have been very helpful.
It's easy to use, it's robust, and it offers good security that we can count on.
Most importantly, our users are familiar with the interface and the operational capability of this product. That's why we chose to use Oracle.
While we don't interact too much with the database and interact more with our front-end application, we get good reports as it simply runs in the back end.
It's a very comprehensive database, although we are using only the standard version, not the enterprise version. Even the standard version is quite good. It's very reliable.
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Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The database is very good for holding our client's data.
Oracle has a very good RIC (Retail Integration Console). It gives good visibility.
Overall, from a technical perspective, the solution is very strong.
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Ricardo Tinga
Head of IT Division at Industrial Property Institute
One of the best aspects of the solution is that it is very easy to use. In my opinion, for how I use it, I find it quite straightforward.
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Oracledev67
Lead Oracle Developer and DevOps Engineer at Versent
The most valuable features of this solution are the cost optimizer and partition exchanges.
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Mario Freire
Consultor de TI at ultragaz
The most valuable features are Velocity, security, and compatibility.
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Agus Nurhalim
Director Of Services at Dinamika Berkah Abadi
The most valuable features are the Oracle Data Guard and Transportable Tablespaces. These features are useful when you need data protection and in case you need to move data around quickly.
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Kevin Slack
Database Analyst at Talbots
This solution has the best performance, bar none.
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Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The feature I find most valuable about this solution is reliability. Whenever there was a problem, like hardware that failed, the data was still okay and not corrupted and that is very important for us.
I am also really impressed by the scalability of this product. For example, whenever we need to add new space, Oracle makes it easy to extend and increase our performance. We don't have any corruption issues and we can add new space and without having to restart our database.
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Gene Deans
Member at Idaho National Laboratory
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.
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Samis Saurabh
Associate Consultant Oracle DBA at ATOS GITSS Pvt. Ltd.
The features that we find most valuable are Data Pump, GoldenGate, and the RMAN (Recovery Manager).
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Osama Mustafa
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential
- The most valuable feature for me is the pluggable database because it provides database consolidation and the solution for utilizing your resource. On the other hand, I find security products that are provided by Oracle very strong and not in comparison with any database vendor.
- The encryption, database reduction, audit vault, database firewall: All of these products provide an extra layer of security when they are implemented in the right way.
- Let's also mention real application cluster, and disaster recovery solution.
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Lead Database Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
- I really appreciate the performance of Oracle.
- When using AWR records you can really see where a problem is.
- You can get advice about which queries are the heaviest for the database.
- You also can see advice for indexes. If an index isn't used, then you can remove it to improve performance. This is a really good feature.
- The JDBC connection is also quite good.
- The object types are really good, the types of tables you can use in PL/SQL are also really helpful.
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David Gubly
DBA Team Leader at Hadassah Medical Organisation (HMO)
- Stability
- Name recognition of the database in the world, as it is maybe the best one.
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Maurice Aelion
Senior DBA & IT Consultant at MA Consulting
Oracle is one of the most advanced systems when compared with other databases in the market. Oracle has the ability to combine all the sophisticated architectures that we have today in the market and bring them to the customer.
One more nice thing that Oracle is bringing in is cloud on premises. This allows you to have a big Exadata machine in your enterprise and use it as a cloud, using all the available Oracle features, which is very nice. It gives you the ability to begin according to your needs and grow very fast when you need to do so.
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Software Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Stores a lot of data in a short time.
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Operations Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
- Security and Scalability
- I have used Oracle technologies for last two decades apart from other similar vendors like MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, etc.
- Power of Oracle combined with robust Unix platforms like Linux or AIX makes it powerful and secure as compared to MS SQL on Windows
- IBM DB2 needs indepth technical expertise and lot of workarounds or automation to build a strong solution, MS SQL is on Windows and that makes it not the best choice
it_user850737
Head Database Administration at Co-operative Bank of Kenya
- High availability using real application clusters.
- Disaster recovery using Oracle Data Guard.
- Scalable storage using Automatic Storage Management.
- Security is watertight. Database Vault is my favourite.
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Asst. Manager in production at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It gives DB consistency, supports disaster recovery (DR), is tunable, and handles large DB sizes.
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Team Leader at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
Performance is the best key value. Oracle Database is suitable for OLTP applications or data warehouse. You can run Oracle Database software on-premise or in the cloud. Also, Oracle provides Exadata, the engineered system designed for Oracle Database, where you can achieve maximum performance.
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Technical Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
RAC clustering allowed us to improve performance and provided additional redundancy. In general, the enterprise-grade features of Oracle are second to none.
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Vice President, Global Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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DBA Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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.
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DBA
Row Locking, which is probably the reason why Oracle is number one.
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DBA at CSG
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.
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System Admin
- Reliability of the database
- High availability
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Database Admin
Ease of the database.
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Program Manager (Software Asset Management) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
- 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.
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Adnan Nasir
Senior Hyperion Systems Architect at County of Loudoun Virginia
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.
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System Architect
Some of the valuable features are flash back, RMAN, and Oracle secure backup.
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ERP Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Some of the valuable features are Oracle Wallet and Data Guard. We are also using the GRANT feature for high scalability.
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Territory Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are security and stability.
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Vice President of Global IT at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It has given us the ability to scale.
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ERP Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our backend Database is for JDE. Complete enterprise system runs on JDE Oracle Database. But the original, older v9 does support JDE the older platform because all our financial data, as well as sales, revenue and all other data is there, and it's easily accessed.
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Principal Software Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable features are it's accessibility and speed for retrieving data that I need, along with the ease of use. That's the most important thing: getting the data out. It’s logical, it makes sense, it’s intuitive.
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Programmer Analyst Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The high availability and the performance are the top-most valuable features.
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Oracle Exadata /Oracle 12c Multi-Tenant/Oracle Golden Gate Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature we have found is the multi-tenancy. You can set up background processes and memory at the container level, not at the pluggable level. he second thing is, I can set up a disaster recovery solution for the container database, not at the pluggable level, so that if I have more pluggable databases, I do not need to worry about disaster recovery setup at the pluggable database level. I only have to set it up one time at the containment level. I can reduce my time, effort, cost, everything. I feel this is one of the best features in 12c, multi-tenancy.
Another valuable feature Oracle has released is the Flex ASM in RAC. In 10g and 11c, if something goes wrong for you with A, some instance, your database will go down. But in 12c, if something goes wrong for you with A, some instance, your database will not go down. You automatically use the next two machines, A, some instance. These are two wonderful features that we have used in database 12c.
One more very cool feature is called Information Lifecycle Management, ILM. It is one of the best features right now.
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Altin Karaulli
Founder at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The most valuable feature is the database core in general, of course.
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IT Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The asset properties feature is the most valuable one since none of the other databases are able to match this particular aspect. This product has the correct way in which asset transactions are being handled.
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Master Software Designer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the scalability of the database.
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Technical Trainer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Container Databases (CDBs) help reduce server sprawl and manage resources in a much better way. It's a feature that consolidates all your application data with Oracle database metadata, still keeping a strict role to manage each of them respectively. With the CDBs, it's become easy to deploy, clone and administer Oracle databases.
Application Continuity simply helps application to be highly available by doing a lot fewer application code changes.
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Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
- Performance
- Durability
- Security
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Database Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's stable, scalable, transportable – all of that combined together; it's a reliable platform; more knowledge base; and more pertinent support.
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President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Of course, it has been around forever, so the scalability of Database is, in my experience, the most valuable feature. The fact that there's so many applications written for it is great. We've seen others who have used other databases, but they don't have nearly the suite of applications and APIs to work with as RDBMS has.
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Oracle DBA at Roketsan Missiles Inc.
Oracle Database has had a multiple-concurrent-user control system from the very beginning. Most enterprise database solutions have recently become aware of this. Oracle's approach was the true approach to isolate users. Databases have some isolation levels and some anomalies. Oracle's database has solved them in a very brilliant way. From the beginning, 20 years ago, Oracle solved those problems. It is the most ACID-compliant database.
It has a multiple-concurrent-user control system, and it is the most ACID-compliant database.
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Oracle DBA at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's the only database you can operate at a very high professional level and that offers what the customers need from the product, ACID.
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Senior Principal Engineer/Architect, Oracle ACE Director at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
So what happened is that today IT is facing a lot of challenges, because the data has grown so fast. They have to find a way to manage the cost, the performance, and the capacity. So that's why we have this strategy called information management: a strategy to manage this data within a reasonable cost.
Oracle 12C introduced these two new features, called ADO, Automatic Data Management, and Heat Map and combine together to implement information management in the database. We found that it is very useful to implement a tiered storage strategy. Today, we all know that SSD, (which) stands for Solid State Drives, really can help improve database performance by reducing a lot of storage IO bottlenecks. But it is not very cost-effective to put a large amount of non-active data into SSD because they are not seriously impacting the performance, and also they tend to be in a large volume, and it can be very costly to put them in the SSD. That's why we introduced (the) tiered storage.
The idea is we put (the) active data in the tier one storage and put (the) non-active data in the tier two or three storage. We want to use ADO and the Heat Map together, to implement this tiered storage strategy. We found that it's very useful, because these features allow the database administrator to write a policy, and then, this feature will automatically move the data around you don't have to physically copy it, and the feature will do this for you. Your only manual work is to write policies. We already implemented this in one of our tiered storage solutions. We have this one, with the PCI storage, as the tier one storage. We also have the tier two storage using the traditional spinning disk. We used this ADO and Heat Map features to manage the data around the tired storage, and it turned out to work very well.
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Sr. Database Consultant at IGT
The most valuable feature is how evolved the solution is right now. It's been around for a while, and I think it's been servicing a lot of different use cases. I think it's really stabilized, evolved, and you can actually put it to use in multiple scenarios. It adapts itself just as well to most business use cases.
I think the best part about Oracle is it keeps evolving. It's not adding any more features to it. There's a big move toward custom cloud services - big databases in the cloud - and obviously there are people with apprehensions in terms of what will happen if that data is shared. They are working towards addressing that issue. They are kind of compartmentalized, and kind of made some of the domains private, to maintain the security for certain critical domains. You still have the power of using the cloud. That's the great thing about it: It keeps evolving. It doesn't stay still. It's very compelling.
It also provides reliability, in terms of handling large volumes of data. I don't believe there's another database server that people would pick. Given a choice, everybody would like to go with Oracle.
I think those are the two big features that really stick out.
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Senior Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Especially with Oracle, you have the high availability features. That specifically is very interesting to customers. When it comes to DR, I don't use high availability. Nonetheless, according to different strategies, it also provides features such as recovery, not the same as production, in different formats. That's a good feature about Oracle.
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Software Developer at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees
I can't think of any specific features that are the most valuable, but all the small things that Oracle does compared to the free alternatives, such as MySQL, are valuable. I do appreciate having that power to do it. Even though 90% percent of the time I don't use those features, it's nice to have them should I need them.
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DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think that Oracle today is the most powerful relational database, especially for PCI compliance, high availability, and high performance. Those are the Oracle database features I most appreciate.
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IT Manager / Chapter Lead for DEV Content BE at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I like the fact it works the most. It's reliable; it works well in Solaris in a UNIX system; that’s the most valuable feature.
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Associate Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It's probably one of the rapidly expanding database technologies in the world and has one of the best feature sets that an RDBMS can provide.
There are a lot of Oracle MR features that are pretty much unique in the database world. Some of them are pretty outstanding, especially those that enable cloud technology.
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Programmer at Royal Oman Police
The most valuable feature is the searching; it takes less time to search.
The security is also valuable.
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IT Admin at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
For both versions:
- Oracle data miner: automation of created and tested several models
- Warehouse builder: the best data modeling implementation tools for multi-dimensional schema, spatial data, robust ETL implementation
- Fusion middleware: information systems integration and process management
- Data integrator: bulk movement; good connectivity to the other databases, even hierarchical databases; simplicity in ETL implementation
- WebLogic: JDeveloper bundling as a new feature
- BI publisher: showing the best images of data and resources with quality reports, managing the reports, robust report designer
- Application development framework: rapid training and development, excellent deployment, simplicity, map integration
it_user473751
Manager Database Administration at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Active Data Guard: This feature is useful for all organizations, I believe, as it provides you the comfort of routing your reporting requirements to a standby site while at the same time redo application is done.
Tablespace Encryption: This feature helps in protecting your data whenever you share it. It prevents unrestricted access to data, no matter whether you are DBA or OS guy.
Data Masking: This feature helps in hiding the confidential information from unauthorized users, such as customer phone#, email, account balance, credit card#, etc.
Database Replay
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DB Admin with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature of the product for me is the Oracle MTA (Multitenant Architecture) because it can reduce dramatically the operating costs. And, it could lead to license cost savings depending on the aggregation of DBs.
First is operating cost down. There is a lot administrative work, even if there is only one DB, such as backup, tuning, monitoring and patching. DB Integration with MTA contributes to reducing operating costs. Using Oracle MTA, we can operate above actions to multiple database with just one operation. So we can reduce operating cost.
Second is license cost down. With Oracle MTA, we can reduce license cost. Because we can integrate MTA server(s) from a lot of Oracle servers.
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Chief, Application Management Branch at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We like and appreciate the fact that Database is the industry standard for RDBMS solutions. Because of this, we know that the product is constantly being developed and improved in terms of functionalities and stability. It's very stable and a very secure place to store data.
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Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees
Vertical scaling is the most valuable feature for us in our use of it with version 11g.
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Computer Specialist at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
The Autolink login is an important feature in the environment that we are in now. The product can also handle any size data, which is valuable because we have a variety of differently sized databases. There is a lot of support for the product and a lot of customizable features and build-ons.
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General Manager at Grupo luthe
The most valuable feature is security; you do not lose information.
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Senior ERP Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
You can do just about anything with Oracle Database.
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Sr. Oracle Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database helps you store and root through data as fast as possible, which is really valuable to our organization. In addition, while I can do everything I would like to with the product, if there is something that is not possible in the current version, you can build your own features.
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President & Founder at OraPub, Inc.
The most valuable feature is the high concurrency in terms of transactions. The second most valuable feature is that from a diagnostic performance standpoint, I can tell exactly what is going on. It is really good at helping to solve problems.
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DBA at a university
Usability is the biggest value of Oracle Database.
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Analyst at a tech services company
There are many use cases for the Oracle Database and if I encounter any problems, there's information available which I can reference.
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Developer at a tech services company
I'm not using a lot of different Oracle Database functions, but for us, the fact that they have a documentation in Japanese is quite important. It's quite easy for us to find what we want to do. We wish that the community in the Japanese language would become more activate in the future.
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Information Control at a government
In the past when we wanted to merge data, we needed to consider the series of the data, but with Oracle Database there is no need to index the data. That's the important feature.
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Database Expert at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
The main features that I take into account when I talk about databases of any kind are high availability, reliability and manageability. Oracle RDBMS has all that.
The high availability and reliability with Oracle RAC, Oracle Dataguard and Oracle Flashback, the manageability with several views and packages like Advanced Workload Repository(AWR), Active Session History(ASR), SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Plan Control, and many others to monitoring and troubleshooting issues and bottlenecks, are valuable features.
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Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature of Database is the reliability that we get from it. We really depend on it being up and available because we're a manufacturing company. It's got four 9's of uptime, and that's incredibly important.
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Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
RDBMS, we still believe, is Oracle's core product. Hence any time we are looking at any database features or building a new database, Oracle is always our product of choice because of its stability, scalability, reliability, and flexibility.
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Oracle Applications DBA/UNIX SA at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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Manager of Oracle Technology/DevOpsManager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my opinion, it's one of the strongest databases available in the world. It's very robust and you can do the tuning. You can tune it and customize it the way that you need it.
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DBA and Database Performance Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Lately in 12c, they've actually come out with an adaptive optimizer, which I think is great strides in getting performance and doing the right things in the database and getting those queries back to the end users just as fast as they can without a DBA having to do anything about it. A lot of the times the optimizer can now adapt and actually learn from itself and store that information off, so it's kind of an interesting implementation that they've done.
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Senior Product Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
If you remember the old Saturday Night Live skit by the baseball player, Oracle's been very, very good to me. I chose to work with databases and specifically Oracle right out of college, the 80s. It was a right career decision. It took me this far. I'll probably get to my retirement on it. That's a pretty sound technology. Had I picked some other technology to bet on, I probably would've had to go through several different learning iterations. The Oracle Database scales well. Every time there's a new version they add the features that you are wishing they would add or finding that you need. They stay ahead of the game. A lot of times you'll talk to one of their product managers and you'll say, "Well, partitioning is great, but if it only did this," and they'll say, "Oh, well if you sign an NDA, I'll tell you." Legitimately, they've already thought of it and they're developing it, and a lot of times if you get into the beta program, you can participate in the development of those features. That's really unique. It's much better than say a community preview edition like other vendors would do.
The beta program, you sign up for and you're very proactive with it and you have direct access to people who are working on the beta itself. You can help drive the product direction and that's kind of fun.
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Oracle Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable. It's a database that's easy to recover if you need ways to restore and recover, and I like the performance.
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President at Oraclewizard.com Inc
I'm going to be discussing the enhancements to the PL/SQL language in what I'm going to call the bad old days, what we did was we put all of our application code and all of our application objects into one schema. What happened when you would do that is you would have say a SQL injection bug in one piece of code and you could easily point it to very sensitive information. As a matter of fact, I believe Barclay's said 97% of the data leakage is from SQL injection.
Oracle made an enhancement to the language. They added two things that were very powerful. One was the ability to add roles directly to a PL/SQL package. The other thing they added was an accessible by clause such that if I am going to have objects in one schema, instead of granting access to those objects to an entirely other schema such as your app code, I can just grant the access to that object to the program that actually calls it so I could have sensitive objects granted to a sensitive access code. Anybody else tries to get to it, you're not going to be able to get to it.
Then they added one other thing because what you want to do is you want to layer your security. Then they said make it accessible-by. When you accessible-by clause in, the object that is granted access to it, it'll execute, but if anybody else tries to execute that package to get to the object, they're going to get failures. That is what's got me most excited right now about the Oracle language and what they've been working with.
The value is in locking down your data, every time we turn around, we see on TV, GAO got hacked. Somebody's losing their information. You have companies out there going, "We'll protect your private information if you ever lose your information." We shouldn't have to do that. As stewards of this sensitive data, we need to build a security solution around what's sensitive and now Oracle's given us more and more powerful tools in order to implement that.
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Senior Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The powerful SQL language for working with, analyzing and manipulating lots of data. The concurrency and consistency model that allows many simultaneous users with little or no locking. The extensibility using PL/SQL and Java to extend legacy application with modern features like webservices via the database.
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Database Administrator (DBA) - Oracle 11g at a tech company with 51-200 employees
- Online RMAN backup & restoration
- Active High Availability i.e. real application cluster
- Disaster recovery solution (physical and logical standby)
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Owner/VP of Operations at KnightWorks Consulting, Inc
- Adaptive Query Optimization - enable the optimizer to make run-time adjustments to execution plans and discover additional information that can lead to better statistics. This new approach is extremely helpful when existing statistics are not sufficient to generate an optimal plan.
- Pluggable databases - allows you to put 253 databases into one instance of Oracle.
- Redaction Policy - The Oracle Database 12c provides runtime protection of sensitive data. The stored data remains unchanged, while the data to be displayed to the end user is transformed on-the-fly before leaving the database.
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Sr DBA at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The main, most important feature is the integration of the database, security, and performance. Those are the three main features. They have evolved it very well since version 6. It used to be rule-based, now it's cost-based, which is great because there are so many routes to bring in the data. It's a really complex architecture, and the way Oracle has done it is really good.
I work with a couple of other databases too, but with Oracle, it allows you to drill down to a very small level inside the database and return a result that you want. That's another pretty good feature.
Also, Database has low-level security through a virtual private database. Within the same database, we can show two businesses simultaneously without having a different architecture. This really helps us.
A lot of things like a low level security. One of the features that we use virtual private database, which is a low level security. Within the same data base we can show two businesses at the same time, without having a different architecture. It actually helps us.
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Database Admin at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
I really like the way Oracle Database handles crash recovery. I find that that's the most valuable feature among the other databases that I work with. I have yet to see a time when my database crashed, for whatever reason, whether it be node crash or server crash, and Oracle didn't clean it up and it come back online as before. The way Oracle processes cleanup itself and comes back online is great. If one of the Oracle nodes in the cluster goes down, the others keep running, which we're very happy about.
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DBA at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
To say what is the most valuable feature of Oracle Database is tough because all of it is valuable. I can't necessarily describe a single, most important feature. It's certainly been around for a long time, it's incredibly scalable, and its stability is industry-leading. That makes is very reliable because we know it'll provide us with almost 100% uptime and it's flexible enough to meet our data needs. Oracle also has the best support in the industry.
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Data Modeler at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features for us in our experience has definitely been the security and reliability it brings to our environment. We know that our data is safe and secure and that Database is incredibly stable. There's a peace of mind that it affords us.
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IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Oracle Database are that it's very powerful, very reliable, and very fast. Those really are the main attributes that any organization should be looking for from a database solution. Can it take the data you throw at it, can you count on it to be available, and will it provide you enough speed so you can work efficiently?
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New Technologies Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature is its ability to be tuned so that we can gather data and our developers can build their code in it without too much hassle. Oracle Database has a lot of memory and other parameters that you can specify in the .ORA file and tune.
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Lead Oracle Database Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
One of the features that stands out to me is the Real Application Cluster. This gives us the ability to have active-active clustering functionality. We can scale horizontally to multiple database servers and instances, which gives us both High Availability and load balancing, great features both.
There's also the new In-Memory feature that allows us to do a lot of OLAP transactions.
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DBA at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
It's enterprise-wide and can handle big databases. Also, it performs automatic backup recovery and database management and monitoring, both of which are extremely useful.
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Lead Product Dev at a tech company
I think that the most valuable feature of Oracle Database is the knowledge base that's available. If there's a bug, I can find the solution in the knowledge base. If I need to know why something's happened, or whether there's a workaround, I can find the solution in the knowledge base. There's a wealth of information available there, and I live and die by it.
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Database Admin with 501-1,000 employees
For us, the most valuable features of Database have been its robustness, reliability, and the fact that it's highly tuneable.
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DBA Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a storage and memory perspective, 11g is great. We also tried to install 12c on our machines, but we weren't happy about it because there were two version of it and we weren't ready to use the required plugins. We'll go to 12c next year, but I'd like to know whether we can go straight to 13c, which is already out.
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Vice Director of IT Department at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
For me as a DBA, the most important features are the partitioning option, active data guard, and security options. All of these are very useful for my daily workflow.
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Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Cloudera Hadoop provides the scalable data architecture organizations need to manage increasing data volumes, though not the intuitive GUI for business users. Oracle Big Data Discovery (BDD) provides business users the ability to explore and analyze that Hadoop cluster to uncover data of interest.
The scalable data storage of Hadoop is the most critical feature, but without Oracle Big Data Discovery that data is difficult for business users to access without significant IT support. BDD relies on Spark and Hive to function so those are the next most valuable features of Cloudera Hadoop for me.
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Lead Database Administrator (DBA) at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle is the premier relational database platform for enterprise environments. Any organization that purchases enterprise applications will likely have Oracle in place since so many applications require or prefer it.
The most valuable features of Oracle database from my perspective are:
- Read consistency (all queries see a read consistent view of the database so that readers do not block writers and vice versa).
- Data Guard: standby database, with options for maximum performance, availability and protection. I use it in full-synchronous mode to ensure a “hot standby” is available with zero data loss.
- Ability to run non-Windows OS, particularly Linux.
- Ability to monitor and tune; lots of instrumentation built in.
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Advisory Software engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The best thing about Oracle Database is that it performs well when measured on any scale. As a Database developer, I think it offers the best development tools of any database solution.
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Database Administration Principal at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
There are several valuable features that we've found in our experience, including ACID compliance, strong backup and recovery features, smart cost optimizer, very good stability, performance, and it includes disaster recovery solutions.
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Senior Principal Consultant at BroadPoint, Inc.
The flash drive recovery feature is the most valuable aspect of ODB for us. There have been many instances when a user mistakenly deletes important files from their flash drive and ODB has been able to recover that data.
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IT Specialist at US Census Bureau
Its big advantage is from a market perspective. Over 70% of the market uses Oracle Database. It's the market leader in the mid-tier for relational databases, probably, I think, tied with IBM right now.
The support level is good and well-documented. I can go to the web and I can Google just about any problem I have.
And another reason we use Oracle is that it's going to stay in business for a long time. So it's worth investing in training in the software long-term for us as opposed to, say a, smaller open source product that comes and goes.
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President at Oraclewizard.com Inc
The most valuable feature is the TDE advanced security as there are several options of different encryption algorithms. It's also easy to implement Tablespace Encryption.
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Database Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's pretty impressive how much data we can manage and how fast we can do it with Oracle DB. The performance is also valuable, especially when compared to MySQL or DB2.
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Sr Enterprise Database Admin at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
In our business, we deal with vast amounts of financial data. We need to be able to capture all of it accurately without any downtime. We're able to do that with ODB because it gives us 99% uptime while reliably capturing all the data that's important to our business.
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IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
As we're already Oracle customers, we're upgrading from version 11g to 12c. The most valuable component of the new version 12c is the additional processing power it provides.
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Co Founder & Executive Director at SatyaMoksh Inc.
The most valuable features for us are the cloud-like traits of ODB, grid computing with version 11g onward, live database, and Data Guard.
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Senior Oracle DBA/Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Its reliability and security are the features most valuable for us. We know we can depend on it and that it keep our data secure.
It's also a ubiquitous solution. It seems that OBD is everywhere. I know that knowing how to use it in one company will help me in my career at another company.
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Lead Oracle / Peoplesoft DBA at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The key and most valuable feature of any database solution is its stability. In our experience, Oracle Database is highly stable, which is the best part of it. It's certainly much more stable than Microsoft SQL Server.
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Director of IT at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature for us is certainly the scalability of the DB as we need capabilities for multiple terabytes of data.
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Data Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
I think the most valuable feature of Oracle 12c is the ability to have portability for all the various databases. You didn't used to have that option and that functionality, so that's made things a lot more flexible in terms of availability, and shortening the time of doing upgrades, and things like that. I really like the flexibility.
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Banner Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
There's a large set of commands in PL/SQL so you can read things in and read things out much more easily than you can do in SQL.
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Senior Principal Production Support Engineer at Intelsat
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.
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Presenter at a consultancy
Partitions and the various methods available
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Database Expert at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Reliability, CBO
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Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a business stand point, the ability to go to market, compliance and business enabling is what matters most. Oracle database has rich functionalities that helped us design a system that meets our business' changing needs. However I was responsible for maintaining service levels. My focus was on how to provide consistent response time and the throughput amidst changing business needs and growing data. Oracle database offers one of the industry's best diagnostic infrastructure that enables expert DBA to know exactly how system behaves under different workload, thus able to proactively prevent any performance bottlenecks or quickly respond to exceptional situation or even be able to predict future performance.
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Database Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
• Oracle ensures high level security by performing each transaction in isolation from others. The database management as well as user management of oracle is very effective
• Provides data consistency as well as data concurrency.
• Oracle database guarantees that the data returned by a single query is committed and consistent with respect to a single point in time.
• Supports very large size databases. So it is very beneficial for multinational organizations having billion of records.
• Oracle database ensures high level availability by providing solutions for fixing problems rapidly and minimize both planned and unplanned downtime. These solutions help enterprises maintain business continuity 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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MahmoudMohamed1
Senior Data Engineer at Tatweer Educational Technologies Company - TETCO
Oracle Database is suitable for large enterprises.
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LuisNarvaez
Program Director
The most valuable feature of Oracle Database is its stability - one can trust that the database is always working.
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Sales Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Big companies and millions of smaller businesses need Oracle Database because it's secure. The implementation of services is good for data security in Oracle. Implementing higher availability is also good. Whenever one side goes down, the other side will be up. I like using Oracle Database in Oracle x86 Servers. It's more comfortable to use Oracle Database in this situation.
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IT Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable feature for us is the ease of migration between databases. It's quite powerful.
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Works
I like the performance power and the interface of the solution.
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System Analyst and Team Lead at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oracle Database has high-level features that are very good.
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Team Leader at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is the best in the world. It's robust and accessible.
Oracle is the best on the market. They offer an exceptional product.
Technical support has been helpful so far.
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AI Data Architect at a media company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are that it's stable, and it's safe.
There is a lot of information available on the internet, so problems can easily be fixed.
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Omar_Ismail
ECM, Archives and Digital Preservation Consultant at DataServe
Many companies are transitioning from AME to Oracle Database due to competitive pricing. This shift is straightforward. Cost is a priority; they are trying to secure market share and ensure robust security measures.
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ETL Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is user-friendly. It didn't take me much time to learn it.
We can understand the real issue or message for most of the errors. We can easily understand why we are getting an error, which is helpful for fixing it.
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