Oracle Database Stability
Ismail Aboulezz
Chief Executive Officer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is very robust, and I rate its stability nine out of ten. However, stability depends on the hardware configuration, such as server features, single or double server, and data center availability.
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Duy AnhMai
Product Owner at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is very stable. I would rate its stability as nine out of ten.
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Istiaque_Bhuiyan
Head of Sale and marketing at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability of Oracle Database is excellent, rated at ten out of ten.
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Oracle Database
December 2025
Learn what your peers think about Oracle Database. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: December 2025.
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Amey Darekar
Personal Banker at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a pretty stable solution. It is also an easy-to-use product. I rate the stability an eight to nine out of ten.
AnkitKumar 1
Assistant General Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.
Sumeet Zalpuri
Data engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The tool is stable. I rate the stability an eight out of ten. We are still testing some of the use cases with more data. We must optimize it at the query level. We need to increase the resources if we have to get the throughput. The tool performs at a level where we get the expected results.
reviewer2133219
Information Technology Manager at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
It is a very stable solution.
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Chris Chris
Group Head, Internal Controls & Compliance at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
I rate the solution's stability an eight out of ten.
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Digital System Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Satishbabu Gunukula, Oracle ACE
Sr. Tech Systems Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The product is very stable.
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Rafiq Tala'At
NTO, Deputy Chief at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very stable and robust. It is more trusted and capable than other solutions like Microsoft.
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Satya Raju
Archtect - software engineering at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The tool is always upgraded as per the user's requirements. So I don't feel any issue. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Sharique Rizvi
Subject Matter Expert at a retailer with 51-200 employees
I rate Oracle Database's stability an eight out of ten.
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Prajith Chowthee
Independent Consultant at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
reviewer2239944
Senior Infrastructure Lead at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It is a stable solution.
The patching is an area that takes a long time, so we are trying to find another solution to minimize the downtime and do the patching.
Eva Kimathi
ERP Database Administrator at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The reliability of the Oracle Database is excellent and the performance is very good. I have used MySQL for large transactions which have given me some problems, but in Oracle Database version 19c I have not had these issues. In the Oracle Database version 11g, sometimes I would have some lagging, but in the newer version, it has been fine.
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Lakshman Nimmakayala
Enterprise Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability is very good and it has very good performance. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Storage Solutions Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is like a real application cluster.
I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.
Tushar Rahatekar
Sr. Systems Analyst at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable.
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Edward Onyango
Database administrator at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution, and I never had any incidence of instability using it.
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Chinthake Ranasinghe
Chief Information Officer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its performance depends on the data center you are connected to. At the moment, we are subscribed to one of the US data vendors. Other than that, it is very stable and highly available.
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JohnMitchell
jmitchell@natbankmw.com at a individual & family service with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable. We haven't had any crashes in two months.
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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database is 100% stable.
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RaviKasibhatla
Chief Executive Officer CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Oracle Databases are very well known for their stability. If there are new products, they have a process for discovering bugs, and they keep updating the software with the patches that cover all these bugs. The features that Oracle Databases have is enough for us. It's very sophisticated.
There are maybe two or three users who use Oracle Database services that are behind the cloud.
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Manjunath Bhimareddy
Project Lead Performance Engineer & Automation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is stable.
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Paul Stearns
President at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It is one of the robust products from a stability point of view. I have not really found bugs or glitches. However, on a test database, I had an issue the other night where Oracle decided to behave badly when I was trying to do a query. The solution was to get the latest patches and install the latest patches. Everything worked fine after that. I did all of that without contacting Oracle support. I needed to get what I was working on done. So, I had to plow through to find the answers. I had found some people making some oblique references to what the problem might be. I then took a chance on doing the update. I found the patch kit, but it was not easy to find the right patch kit on their website.
PeterKrall
Freelance Software Engineer + Director of a company at a outsourcing company with 1-10 employees
It is perfectly stable.
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Vikas Dixit
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In terms of stability, we know that Oracles releases quarterly batches but we have still been faced with many bugs over the last year.
I cannot say that it is stable.
This is an area that needs improvement.
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Gichuru Riria
ICT officer at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
I rate the product's stability a nine. We haven't encountered significant issues.
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Jeremy Lee
Principal Consultant at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
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Anup Babu Shrestha
Technical Manager - Enterprise Application at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is a stable product. Oracle has raised the standards for RDBMS solutions. Most banks and government organizations in Nepal use Oracle Database because they're highly reliable.
reviewer1367268
Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the Oracle Database is very good.
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MOHAMMED SEHEN
IT Supervisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is a highly stable solution.
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Mudasir Shafi
Testing Lead at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
It is stable.
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Business Development Director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
As far as I know, we have no problems with stability.
reviewer1788699
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Oracle Database is a stable product.
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CarlosCastells
CIO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution.
reviewer1782720
Technical Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is a very stable solution. If we find a bug or issue then we have to log those ourselves with Oracle. After some time we receive a patch update to fix those problems.
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Amgad Ismail
Department head of gas projects design at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle is a stable product.
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Christian Niembs
Management Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution.
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Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees
It is stable.
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KaranDamania
System Admin at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It's a very stable solution, especially with the hot backup, archive logs, and everything.
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Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is stable, the performance has been perfect.
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Professor at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The product has been quite stable across all versions.
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Adil Fouari
Oracle Applications Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
The solution is stable, it's been around for a long time and there's not much for clients to complain about.
reviewer1089354
System/Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable. It has been around for a very long time, and it is stable now.
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TanveerAmir
Head of Data Management Section at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The stability of the Oracle Database is good.
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Deputy General Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable. It has good high availability and is very reliable. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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System support engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is reliable and quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is great.
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DGM Data Centre at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Because Oracle Database is incredibly stable, it has been used for 20 to 30 years.
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Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is quite good. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Technical Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It is really stable. Its stability is fine, but just don't make any changes. The more changes you make and the more developers you've got, the more unstable it's going to be. So, if you've got a stable environment in terms of development, then it has to be stable.
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Arsen Ghulyan
Deputy Director of Digital Banking at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable.
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Muhammad Asif Ashraf
Technical Development Lead at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability of the product is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Petr Bunka
System Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at a wireless company with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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General Manager (IT/MIS) at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. We do not find that it crashes or freezes. It's reliable.
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Prasad Bagaregari
Enterprise Analytics at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
As for the stability of this solution, it's a hundred percent reliable.
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AhmedElbadry
NMS Service Automation & RPA Technical Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the solution is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable.
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Irad Dukad
IT Manager at a printing company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very stable.
reviewer1488372
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
It is stable.
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Alvaro Valdes
Information Systems Computer System Controller at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
It provides stable services, and we don't worry about that.
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Ayman Said
Infrastructure System's Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
This is a stable database product and we plan to continue using it.
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Anand Sanghvi
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's quite stable. We don't experience any downtime.
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Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees
The solution has proven to be very stable. The performance is good. There are no bugs. It's not glitchy. It doesn't crash or freeze on us. It's reliable.
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Pedro Simoes
Senior System Administrator / CyberSecurity Analist / SQL Server DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think it's a stable product, but we had to add some special patches in the past because of bugs in the product, especially on Oracle REX.
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KopanoRamaphoi
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability is very, very good. There aren't really bugs and glitches, however, if there are, Oracle will help resolve them quickly. It doesn't crash or freeze. You never really have to worry about your database going down.
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Head of Department at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Stability-wise, Informix is better than Oracle. Oracle gives us patches to improve the product, but sometimes the patches do not work and we subsequently have issues. By comparison, Informix does not provide many patches. Instead, remains stable for a few years without needing many changes.
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Kevin Honde
Data Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable.
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Senior Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It is stable.
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Developer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The stability of the solution is excellent. The performance and reliability are great. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very good overall.
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ERP Database Administrator at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The solution has never crashed. I have never needed to call Oracle to get a support ticket.
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Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is stable and reliable.
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Oracle DBA at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very stable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's quite reliable.
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Omar Al-Qaysie
Senior Chief Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable most of the time. Unfortunately, I faced a few different issues. I was luckily able to solve them.
It's very important, if you choose Oracle as a solution, to also get the support as well. You can technically live without it, however, if you run into issues, Oracle can help you when you have the support that they offer.
In my case, I didn't have support so I had to kind-of feel around for a solution. I made the mistake, after the first year, of not renewing my support and I really should have.
it_user1458435
DBA Dept. Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The stability is good, and we plan to continue using it in the future.
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Delivery Head IT & IS at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees
It is absolutely stable.
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Arief Gunawan
Product manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable and scalable. Stability and scalability are our prerequisites for all cloud solutions. A solution must be stable and scalable to be used. Oracle has already covered that part.
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Senior Database Administrator Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Oracle is a stable product and we plan to continue implementing it.
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Emmanuel Morka
Head, Database Administrators at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database is 200% stable. Most of the time when you have issues, it's not with Oracle but with the applications that are running on it that are not properly tuned. Oracle, however, if absolutely reliable.
The causes on the application end need to be properly looked at and tuned up properly, to reduce the overhead costs that are there. The loads are something we can have effect if we need to, and that's where we usually see problems.
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Arief Gunawan
Product manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Right now, I would say that Oracle is one of the best solutions for our customers in terms fo stability. If they handle big productions or process a lot of paper, this is the perfect choice for them.
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Craig Domanski
Infrastructure Manager at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees
The stability is very good. I'd rate it ten out of ten. We have some databases that run for a year without rebooting or anything, so I would describe it as very stable.
We do have a couple of international projects for our users that will be accessed from other countries, but it's currently stable.
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SS36
Software Architeture at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
The tool is stable. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.
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Victor Hugo Morales Vivas
Jefe de Infraestructura y Servicios de TI at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle Database is highly stable.
I rate the stability of Oracle Database a ten out of ten.
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Senior Developer Individual Contributor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is stable and reliable.
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ABDURRAHIM
Deputy Manager - Radio Frequency Planning at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle Database is reliable.
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Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is stable.
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Business Development Manager of Storage Systems at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is fine for the time being, but it could be more stable.
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Data Scientist at a insurance company with 11-50 employees
Oracle Database is stable.
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Arquitecto Delivery at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is a very stable and robust database.
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Group Lead at a security firm with 1-10 employees
I have not had any bugs or glitches, the solution is stable.
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Sales Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database is very stable.
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Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
For the most part, the performance is good and it offers good stability. There aren't really bugs or glitches. it doesn't crash or freeze.
It's a market leader in RDBMS. It is quite good, compared to other RDBMS such as Db2, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL.
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Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution.
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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.
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Lawrence Katuruza
Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is very, very, very stable.
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Ovidiu Vasu
Technical Manager IT Development at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is a stable product.
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CIO at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is very stable. Our company has over 1,000 users and we'll keep it at that for the time being.
reviewer1662204
IT Manager at a construction company with 1-10 employees
Oracle Database is stable. I'm quite happy with the performance.
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IT Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Oracle Database is a stable product.
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VarunMohta
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
If you get Oracle Database set up right the first time, it'll run many years without any errors. There are no problems with the database itself, but if it isn't configured correctly or you execute something incorrectly, that can cause a problem. If we use a database in the application and there is a problem, we can quickly fix it.
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IT / SAP / Organization / Processes at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
It seems to work. But it could use some improvement in terms of operational stability.
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Data Quality Specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is reliable and stable.
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mehrab hussain
Junior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Oracle Database is a stable solution.
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SAMUELMWANGI
Director at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
The stability of the Oracle Database needs to be improved.
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Florent NOPOUDEM
Senior Database Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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Technical Team Lead at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability of the solution is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Lucas Sain
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is reliable.
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System Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Database is a stable product.
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PCI DSS Program Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Vice President & Head of IT Governance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle Database is stable.
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Engineer consultant at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
The stability of this solution is good.
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Sr Lead Data & Information Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is a stable solution.
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Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
It requires patching that we need to do manually from our end. To use the patches released from the Oracle side requires maintenance.
We have a dedicated team of DBA's that took care of the maintenance and dispatching. There are times reserved for that purpose, and during that time whenever a business requirement is very low or there is less load on the DB, that is when we do it.
It is quite stable.
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Web Developer at a government with 10,001+ employees
It's a wonderful product. Those that have a lot of experience working with the product, those with ten or 15 years of experience, will be able to understand its core processes. Those with only a few year's experience will feel there's a certain lack of transparency. That said, I haven't had any issues with bugs or glitches, and when it is set up correctly, it doesn't crash or freeze.
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Florent ADODO
IT Assistant at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
Stability is solid and powerful.
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Database Operation Assistant Manager at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
The solution in my experience has been stable.
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Lead - Cloud Engineering at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution offers excellent stability. Its performance is very reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very good. It's basically been issue-free.
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Data Center Operations Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability has been pretty good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable. The performance is very good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very good.
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Manager, Special Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oracle is a stable product.
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Mac Wang
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Oracle Database is very stable.
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Yasin Bin Wasim
Information Security Engineer at a security firm with 11-50 employees
It is stable.
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Abhijith Palekar
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not worked on Oracle Database a lot, as I concentrate on business intelligence. However, I have not experienced any issues or limitations.
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Data Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We currently have 18 people in our organization using this product. I find it to be a stable product.
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Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It is a stable product. In terms of recovery, if there is a failure or some kind of fault, we can recover the data. We do not lose it.
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Sr. Professional Security Compliance at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
It's a stable solution but there are bugs which I think is related to standards compliance. There are limitations in monitoring.
reviewer1468959
Oracle Database Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is very stable,
Stability is one of its main advantages.
I would rate the stability of this solution an eight out of ten.
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Khalil Dahham
Senior Lead Developer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
Stability is not a problem. It's more stable than other solutions.
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Ronan-Cunali
Product Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Stability is good. It is a very stable product.
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Domain architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It used to be stable and scalable, however, we have had recent stability problems on the Exadata platform.
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Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is absolutely stable.
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Alain Orlanes
Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I do not have any idea about the specifics of the stability because that is usually taken care of by the IT department. From an end-user standpoint, the stability is very good. At least that is the case for us as the IT department is doing their job.
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Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is extremely stable. There are no problems with it there. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or fail. It's completely reliable.
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Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This solution is stable and we have not had any issues.
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Reegan Varkey
Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees
In terms of stability, it's got a little bit more stability than it used to be. It's good. It's been quite stable, however, I believe the stability is limited to a standard model of licensing that we are provided.
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Systems Analyst at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is very stable. I haven't experienced bugs or glitches. There haven't been crashes. It's quite reliable. An organization shouldn't have to worry about it's stability at all.
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Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability of the solution is okay. I don't recall experiencing bugs or glitches. The solution hasn't crashed on me before. It's quite reliable. Stability is never an issue.
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Ricardo Tinga
Head of IT Division at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
I've never faced any stability issues with the product. I don't recall any bugs, glitches, or crashes. I'd say it's fairly stable and shouldn't cause anyone issues in that regard.
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Kevin Slack
Database Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a stable solution.
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Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
The stability of Oracle is absolutely perfect. We've had no problems since we started using it in 1995. One time we had power problems and we had to restart the server. The data was automatically corrected and reconstructed, without any problem at all.
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Osama Mustafa
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at a tech services company
one of the most stable database i ever seen, but to be honest the Support when you will have a bug or something it will make your life very hard.
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System Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It is a very solid and stable product.
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Lead Database Developer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's stable. It's good. But I think it could be better.
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David Gubly
DBA Team Leader at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Since we moved to Linux two years ago, it has been much more stable. We were very happy that we moved.
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Maurice Aelion
Senior DBA & IT Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oracle has new versions, and with them it becomes more stable. Compared to other databases, especially when dealing with vast numbers of records, Oracle is one of the leading databases; it performs much better.
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Software Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable.
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Operations Engineering Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Multiple issues, but mostly triggered from lower layers like OS, Network, storage layers.
Oracle GRID is sensitive to underlying network and disk timeouts and node evictions may happen if disk and network systems are not optimized
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Team Leader at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
No. The most critical error was due to a bug on database policies, so selecting it got the wrong results.
View full review »it_user521772
Vice President, Global Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a very stable product, especially the RAC, node clusters, so if one goes down it's very seamless. You have other nodes backing it up.
View full review »it_user522141
DBA Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
There aren't really stability issues. Oracle does have a physical real application cluster, RAC. It does minimize the downtime.
View full review »it_user522138
DBA
It's pretty stable.
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DBA
It is pretty stable, but since it's only the very first version they released, I would say probably they're going to fix it in release 2.
View full review »it_user522036
System Admin
It's always been stable and we believe it will continue to be stable.
View full review »it_user521715
Database Admin
Stable, absolutely.
View full review »it_user521766
Program Manager (Software Asset Management) at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's a very stable solution. You have to configure it to your requirements. It's one of the leading databases. You can have a mission-critical database system to make it available 24/7.
We have 24/7 platforms, from development databases to mission critical databases, they all run on Oracle.
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Adnan Nasir
Senior Hyperion Systems Architect at a retailer with 11-50 employees
It's quite stable for being capable of doing so many things. It's powerful, fast, reliable, and secure.
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System Architect
I did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »it_user522111
ERP Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The I would give the stability a rating of 8/10.
View full review »it_user521847
Territory Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
In terms of stability, there is no downtime. The times when we need to shut it down, it's because we want to shut it down, not because the product crashes. It is very reliable.
View full review »it_user436032
ERP Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very good because Oracle supports very nice and releases some versions and as well as technical support from Oracle itself is very good.
View full review »it_user521568
Principal Software Architect at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
It is always up. If the database is down, it's more likely something to do with the hardware.
View full review »it_user521886
Programmer Analyst Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
It is a very stable product, especially the RAC node clusters. If one goes down, it's very seamless; you have other nodes backing up.
View full review »it_user522033
Oracle Exadata /Oracle 12c Multi-Tenant/Oracle Golden Gate Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have been using it for the past 10 months. We have not had any stability issues, at all. We updated the PSU patches, just the CPU patches; it's up and running for months.
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Altin Karaulli
Founder at a tech company with 1-10 employees
So far, I have never encountered any stability issues.
View full review »it_user521931
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have not experienced any downtime. It is very stable.
View full review »it_user449478
Technical Trainer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees
It depends on the kind of database solution you are applying, but I have not yet encountered any stability issues.
View full review »it_user480213
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle solutions are the most used, so we don't need to do verification of the product on our own. We can assume that the product's reliability is high enough. Based on Oracle products we are able to run our own developed applications at very high performance levels.
it_user522009
Database Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Knock on wood, there hasn’t been any downtime to the point that is noticeable, but we do plan downtime to do stuff; it has seldom choked up on us.
View full review »it_user436146
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Usually, you don't see any stability issues, but that really depends on the level of expertise of the DBA handling it.
View full review »it_user521868
Oracle DBA with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oracle database is stable. When Oracle slows down or if you can't use data, it means you are doing something wrong. The architecture is in the logs, the logging mechanism. If you know how to configure the database, it is impossible for you to lose data. It has the Data Guard disaster solution.
The Oracle database was first designed by people who left the Central Intelligence Agency. They knew how to implement security in the core of the database. I find it reliable and stable.
View full review »it_user521754
Sr. Database Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I don't think you would pick another database for stability; for financial data, or anything related to money transactions, where you want to reliably store data, and you don't want to lose any data. You don't want to try to save something in the database and then go in the next day and not have it, obviously. Oracle is right up there in terms of stability.
View full review »it_user521907
Senior Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The stability is completely amazing. It's been the industry standard for many years, so it is very stable.
View full review »it_user521667
Software Developer at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees
It's very stable, we've had no problems with that.
View full review »it_user521589
DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most important down time you can have for developers is when we upgrade from one version to another.
Otherwise, we have not had any stability issues, especially with 10g or 11g.
It's a very, very strong database.
View full review »it_user521571
IT Manager / Chapter Lead for DEV Content BE at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It didn’t crash; it was reliable.
View full review »it_user521796
Associate Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It is very stable; I have not found any issues.
View full review »it_user522024
Programmer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It goes down sometimes; sometimes it is not as stable. It is 90% stable, 10% unstable.
View full review »it_user75741
IT Admin at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I regularly encounter stability issues.
View full review »it_user473751
Manager Database Administration at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I did not encounter any stability issues.
View full review »it_user489099
DB Admin with 5,001-10,000 employees
I did encounter issues with stability. But it was the first release (12.1.0.1). Now, MTA is quite stable at the latest version.
View full review »it_user436152
Chief, Application Management Branch at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We haven't had any issues with crashing or downtimes or anything due to the product. It's been very stable, and there's not really even a thought of it being unstable.
View full review »it_user426513
Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees
We have had no issues with the stability.
View full review »it_user486519
Computer Specialist at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
I have not had that many problems with stability over the years. I have found one bug personally, but other than that the Database has been pretty clean.
View full review »it_user486513
General Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It never crashes, so we can have it running for months. It's amazing for the customer because they don't even know it's running. After some time, they forget that there is a database behind them.
View full review »it_user486543
Systems Engineer, Crew Escape & Life Support F35 Lightning Ii at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It has been stable for all of our twelve years of use. We don’t have much downtime. The product is really good.
View full review »it_user486582
Senior ERP Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have never had an issue with stability.
View full review »it_user486525
Sr. Oracle Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is so stable that I have this mantra: “If you have not crushed the server you have not been trying hard enough.” I have not crushed it in a long while. It is really stable.
View full review »it_user486549
President & Founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It’s a software product, so there are some bugs. When I have issues, they tend to be from an unusual or intense workload that is stressing the system.
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DBA at a university
Even if we encounter any problems, then there's a strong definition of how we are able to improve the situation and resolve the situation. We are able to do the backup beforehand by referring to those defined resolutions from the Oracle, and if we are able to have the two systems, then even if one fails, we are able to use the other one, so we are able to prevent problems.
View full review »it_user480726
Analyst at a tech services company
In comparison with other commercial databases, it's more stable but there are many challenges that we feel should be corrected.
View full review »it_user480216
Developer at a tech services company
After the release we need to do a performance tuning, so we need to figure out what we can do for the visualization for the performance tuning. We wish that Oracle could offer this as a product so that we are able to easily start using it.
View full review »it_user480219
Information Control at a government
Compared to its reputation, it's worse than expected. The system went down two times. It said that when there's a shutdown it's only for one system, and not both systems at the same time, but it actually did occurred.
View full review »it_user27945
Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've had nothing but good stability around Database.
View full review »it_user436173
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's been very stable for us.
View full review »it_user436206
Oracle Applications DBA/UNIX SA at a agriculture with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've had absolutely no issues with instability. It's incredibly stable, which is one of the reasons we chose it despite the price.
View full review »it_user450624
Manager of Oracle Technology/DevOpsManager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's been very stable, and that's one of the best features. It very rarely has bugginess.
View full review »it_user431388
DBA and Database Performance Evangelist at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Basically with the Real Application Clusters and Data Guard and all that, disaster recovery should be no problems with Oracle. I mean, if you have an outage getting across different data centers, all of that is pretty well baked in right now.
View full review »it_user284961
Senior Product Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Oracle stability's a funny thing. I know companies who do not have any database administrators. Stability in those shops is sporadic, and it should be. You need a database administrator to oversee your databases, just like you need a manager to oversee your people. It's an asset. In fact, your data's your most important asset. You sure as heck should have a specialist.
Oracle's a very powerful, robust, capable database. However, in order to be powerful, capable, and robust, it's a little complex. You need a database administrator. I'm not saying you have to hire a six figure guy, but you've got to have somebody. I know a lot of SQL server shops where they also don't work with database administrators. They can get away with it because the database isn't quite as industrial. I'm not going to build petabyte databases in SQL server but I am going to build it in Oracle. If I've got that size, it helps to have a DBA around.
View full review »it_user436440
Oracle Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
It's stable.
View full review »it_user420015
President at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The stability is fabulous. I have one customer that has scaled this out and the application's now reaching over 100,000 users and we have not had any problems with it.
View full review »it_user420792
Senior Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Some of the time, a Real Application Cluster version was used, which turned out on very rare occasions to performed unmotivated failover to other node. The problem really was sub-optimal coding of the legacy application in the use of the locking methods of Oracle, which was magnified when propagating locks to other nodes, however would have been nice if RAC could have handled it, even when sup-optimal. After switching some years ago to a single server non-RAC solution, the database has been rock steady - only instabilities was when O/S or hardware failed, not the database.
View full review »it_user448833
Database Administrator (DBA) - Oracle 11g at a tech company with 51-200 employees
We've experienced no issues with performance.
View full review »it_user446727
Owner/VP of Operations at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
We have had no issues with the stability.
View full review »it_user436107
Sr DBA at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's one of the most stable database that I work with. They have been improving with every version. As far as stability goes, I give a very high marks to Oracle.
View full review »it_user436200
Database Admin at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
It's very stable. We've had no issues with instability.
View full review »it_user436203
DBA at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Its stability is the best in the industry. It's the main reason we've stuck with it for so long.
View full review »it_user436104
Data Modeler at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Database has always been solid. There's been a couple little buggy things at the beginning, because I was working with version 7, but from 8i onwards, everything was solid.
View full review »it_user436065
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have absolutely no issues with the stability. That's one of the primary advantages of Oracle Database.
View full review »it_user436143
New Technologies Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The newer releases always have bugs and issues, but as the releases mature, they become stable. Take 11g R1, for example, which is a good product, but it initially contained a lot of bugs and kinks. 11g R2 was a lot more stable with many of the issues worked out. There were still some bugs, but they were minor and fixed with patches.
View full review »it_user436020
Lead Oracle Database Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Stability is not an issue at all. Oracle is a database company and Database, as their flagship RDBMS, is the product at the highest level of maturity.
View full review »it_user436155
DBA at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
We very seldom have stability issues. It's been really stable so far.
View full review »it_user436125
Lead Product Dev at a tech company
Oracle has added a new optimizer option to do some very fancy stuff, but it provides the wrong results. And at this stage in the life of the product, wrong results should never happen. That's why I have Database -- to get the correct results.
View full review »it_user436002
Database Admin with 501-1,000 employees
It's way better now than it used to be, but, yes, it is very stable. All of our large applications use Database because of its stability.
View full review »it_user435990
DBA Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The stability is better than with 10g, in our experience with it.
View full review »it_user435033
Vice Director of IT Department at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
All the issues I dealt with in regards to instability have been related to other applications and not the Database itself. All of the issues were fixed by programmers during the deployment and test implementation phases.
View full review »it_user347580
Principal Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle Big Data Discovery depends on either Cloudera or Hortonworks Hadoop which are both stable and scalable base deployments.
View full review »it_user431076
Lead Database Administrator (DBA) at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is one of the most stable solutions on the market.
View full review »it_user421464
Advisory Software engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had no issues with the stability.
View full review »it_user430962
Database Administration Principal at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
All software has bugs and Oracle database is no exception. Oracle's RDBMS offers a high level of stability, but the increasing complexity (added functionalities and options) is in some way increasing the risk of hitting a bug.
View full review »it_user419319
Senior Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It hasn't been 100% stable, but I think over time it has become more stable than previously.
View full review »it_user419082
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very stable. It's a well-known product and, while it does have problems, they're all well-documented. There are traditional security patches and, sometimes, some problems with new functionality. As long as you apply your patches regularly, they're resolved. And Oracle Support Group does resolve them.
View full review »it_user420015
President at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It's incredibly stable. There's a couple things you do need to be aware of, but it's not so much the stability issues, it's actually the data leakage issues. Because we're talking about encryption here, you have to be careful that data can leak out in third text, and I'll give you an example. If you take a data pump export of encrypted data and you do not specify encrypted in the command line, it will be saved in clear text. That's one issue.
Another issue is if you gather histogram information on encrypted data, that data will be stored in the statistics tables unencrypted so you have to use a product such as Database Vault to wall that off so you can protect it.
View full review »it_user419154
Database Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Oracle DB has been very stable for us, especially since it has provides us with backups. But it needs people to manage it, so you have to pay attention to properly staffing it once implemented.
View full review »it_user419178
Sr Enterprise Database Admin at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It's very good, very stable. We're in our own ODB shop, and so far we haven't seen any issues with instability.
It is very good, very stable. We are in our own Database shop, and so far we haven't seen any issues.
View full review »it_user417387
IT Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
There have been various stability issues so far, but the main concern, again, is the middleware. We're looking for some improvements in those areas.
View full review »it_user419103
Co Founder & Executive Director at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The stability is good as the product has matured over the past few years. We initially implemented in 2014 and had upgrades since. We had some issues, which we told Oracle about and which they fixed. We had integration with a backend database because we are an Oracle workshop when it comes to database. They did not have too many customers using Oracle as a backend database.
View full review »it_user412296
Senior Oracle DBA/Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It's stable. We haven't had any issues with instability.
View full review »it_user419052
Lead Oracle / Peoplesoft DBA at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stability is a 5 out of 5. Again, ODB's stability is its best and most important feature for us.
View full review »it_user417105
Director of IT at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
It's definitely stable. We've had no issues with instability.
View full review »it_user417087
Data Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
12 seems to be a little bit more stable than 11 used to be, although, knock on wood, we still use a little bit of 11.
View full review »it_user420012
Banner Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are some enhancements that have been made to the database, especially PL/SQL. It changes as the product changes. It's not that difficult to find out what those changes are and keep up in order to maintain stability.
View full review »it_user419334
Senior Principal Production Support Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very solid. We've had no issues with Oracle DB being unstable. Again, its reliability is one of the best features for us.
View full review »it_user127854
Database Expert at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've encountered stability issues with Oracle on Windows Server after regular updates.
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it_user98628
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Any system goes through a phase of stabilizing which takes a fair amount of time. Fortunately, with Oracle database, this time has reduced significantly.
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MahmoudMohamed1
Senior Data Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is stable.
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Divya Jonnalagadda
ETL Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is stable.
View full review »reviewer1506519
AI Data Architect at a media company with 11-50 employees
It's a stable solution, but it could be better.
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Omar_Ismail
ECM, Archives and Digital Preservation Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The product is much more stable than Microsoft.
I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.
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