Oracle Database Stability

MustansirManasawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at TK Elevator

It is a very stable solution.

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SG
Works

The product is very stable.

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VD
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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Oracle Database
March 2024
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Tushar Rahatekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Analyst at a maritime company with 10,001+ employees

It's very stable.

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PS
President at Advance Consulting Enterprise

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. 

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EM
Head, Database Administrators at Ecobank Transnational Incorporated

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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CD
Infrastructure Manager at Lactanet

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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AV
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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PeterKrall - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance Software Engineer + Director of a company at Peter Krall Consulting

It is perfectly stable.

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GW
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.

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Chinthake Ranasinghe - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at Cjp

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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Lakshman Nimmakayala - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Cloud Architect at UBS Financial

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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OM
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential

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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SP
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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RK
Chief Executive Officer CEO at IT CROWD S.A.S

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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Eva Kimathi - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Database Administrator at PSKENYA

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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EF
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Oracle Database is 100% stable. 

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

It is very stable.

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OK
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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NP
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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OA
Senior Chief Engineer at ministry of electricity

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.

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it_user515592 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Edward  Onyango - PeerSpot reviewer
Database administrator at OS Labs

Oracle Database is a stable solution, and I never had any incidence of instability using it.

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JohnMitchell - PeerSpot reviewer
jmitchell@natbankmw.com at NBM

It is very stable. We haven't had any crashes in two months.

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BT
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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it_user436020 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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MS
IT Supervisor at Nebeaelhate IT

It is very stable.

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MR
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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PB
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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it_user521754 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Database Consultant at IGT

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.

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SM
Enterprise Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The stability of the Oracle Database is very good.

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BZ
Business Development Director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

As far as I know, we have no problems with stability.

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SN
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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AhmedElbadry - PeerSpot reviewer
NMS Service Automation & RPA Technical Lead at Vodafone

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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RM
Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Database is stable and reliable.

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AG
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT

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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MA
Senior DBA & IT Consultant at MA Consulting

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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Sumeet  Zalpuri - PeerSpot reviewer
Data engineer at ASR Nederland N.V.

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.

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SS36 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Architeture at Enformatik Yazılım Bilgi Teknolojileri Mühendislik Ltd.

The tool is stable. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.

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AF
Oracle Applications Consultant at ASAM Conseil Inc

The solution is stable, it's been around for a long time and there's not much for clients to complain about. 

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SA
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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PB
System Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable. 

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RK
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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PS
Senior System Administrator / CyberSecurity Analist / SQL Server DBA at Glintt

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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AG
Product manager at Metrodata Electronics Tbk PT

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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Mudasir Shafi - PeerSpot reviewer
Testing Lead at Enstoa

It is stable.

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DE
System/Security Engineer at a tech services company 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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SK
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa

The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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MB
Project Lead Performance Engineer & Automation at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Database is stable.

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AN
Senior Hyperion Systems Architect at County of Loudoun Virginia

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

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TA
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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Muhammad Asif Ashraf - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Eva Kimathi - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Database Administrator at PSKENYA

The solution has never crashed. I have never needed to call Oracle to get a support ticket.

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MR
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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it_user420015 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Oraclewizard.com Inc

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.

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MahmoudMohamed1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at Tatweer Educational Technologies Company - TETCO

The product is stable.

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AG
Deputy Director of Digital Banking at IDBank

The solution is stable.

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KG
Associate Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

It is stable.

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SR
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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SK
Senior Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It is stable.

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AG
Delivery Head IT & IS at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is absolutely stable.

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KS
Database Analyst at Talbots

This is a stable solution.

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it_user420015 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Oraclewizard.com Inc

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.

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it_user419103 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Executive Director at SatyaMoksh Inc.

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.

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AB
Technical Manager - Enterprise Application at Thakral One (Pvt) Ltd

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. 

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CK
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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VV
Professor at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

The product has been quite stable across all versions.

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VG
Director at a tech services 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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VM
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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KD
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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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

Stability is solid and powerful. 

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it_user436032 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user521886 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user450624 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user284961 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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EO
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data

Oracle Database is a highly stable solution.

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KD
System Admin at First Capitol Bank

It's a very stable solution, especially with the hot backup, archive logs, and everything.

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AL
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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FN
Senior Database Administrator at ITGStore

The solution is stable. 

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AS
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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HB
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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Alain Orlanes - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at WSI

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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RT
Head of IT Division at Industrial Property Institute

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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it_user521868 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at Roketsan Missiles Inc.

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.

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it_user521571 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user27945 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Database and Security at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had nothing but good stability around Database.

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it_user436200 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Admin at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It's very stable. We've had no issues with instability.

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PC
Independent Consultant at Unaikui

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.

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KK
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.

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Omar_Ismail - PeerSpot reviewer
ECM, Archives and Digital Preservation Consultant at DataServe

The product is much more stable than Microsoft.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

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Victor Hugo Morales Vivas - PeerSpot reviewer
Jefe de Infraestructura y Servicios de TI at Grupo ASD

Oracle Database is highly stable.

I rate the stability of Oracle Database a ten out of ten.

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ABDURRAHIM - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager - Radio Frequency Planning at X-Net Ltd.

Oracle Database is reliable.

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AR
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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it_user436173 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It's been very stable for us.

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it_user431076 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user417087 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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TB
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Oracle Database is a stable product.

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ID
IT Manager at ducart

The solution is very stable.

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KopanoRamaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Rpc Data

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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YW
Information Security Engineer at a security firm with 11-50 employees

It is stable.

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BH
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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DG
DBA Team Leader at Hadassah Medical Organisation (HMO)

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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it_user522141 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436206 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user419334 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Production Support Engineer at Intelsat

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.

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AI
Department head of gas projects design at ENPPI

Oracle is a stable product.

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UF
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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AM
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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AV
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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AS
Deputy IT Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)

This is a stable database product and we plan to continue using it.

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AW
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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RV
Consultant at Payfront Technologies India Pvt Ltd

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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it_user419319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Consultant at BroadPoint, Inc.

It hasn't been 100% stable, but I think over time it has become more stable than previously.

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it_user419178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Enterprise Database Admin at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

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.

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Christian Niembs - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oracle Database is a stable solution.

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LK
Systems Administrator at Dairibord

This solution is very, very, very stable. 

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SN
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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YL
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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BR
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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VZ
Divisional Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is absolutely stable.

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it_user522111 - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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it_user522033 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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it_user473751 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Database Administration at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I did not encounter any stability issues.

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it_user347580 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user412296 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user420792 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436002 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user419082 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at US Census Bureau

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.

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ZF
Senior Developer Individual Contributor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Oracle Database is stable and reliable.

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MM
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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PT
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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it_user811680 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is a very solid and stable product.

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it_user457482 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user521766 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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it_user521907 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user521796 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

It is very stable; I have not found any issues.

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it_user489099 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436152 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436143 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user435033 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user419052 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user98628 - PeerSpot reviewer
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. View full review »
DK
Senior Systems Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

It is stable.

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RK
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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VA
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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CM
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. 

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VG
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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it_user521772 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user522093 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at CSG

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.

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it_user521847 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user75741 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I regularly encounter stability issues.

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it_user486549 - PeerSpot reviewer
President & Founder at OraPub, Inc.

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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it_user436107 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436155 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We very seldom have stability issues. It's been really stable so far.

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it_user417105 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

It's definitely stable. We've had no issues with instability.

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CC
CIO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Oracle Database is a stable solution.

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WR
Sales Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

Oracle Database is very stable.

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VC
Sr. Solution Architect at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Oracle Database is a stable solution.

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JS
Data Quality Specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is reliable and stable.

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SAMUELMWANGI - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Calidad Systems Limited

The stability of the Oracle Database needs to be improved.

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SC
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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it_user1026435 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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PM
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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it_user522009 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user522024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer at Royal Oman Police

It goes down sometimes; sometimes it is not as stable. It is 90% stable, 10% unstable.

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it_user435990 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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YK
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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CN
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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RR
Manager, Special Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oracle is a stable product.

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DM
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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it_user521568 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user431388 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436125 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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CM
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable.

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MB
Data Scientist at a insurance company with 11-50 employees

Oracle Database is stable.

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MH
IT Architect at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Oracle Database is a stable product.

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OK
System Specialist at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Oracle Database is a stable product.

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YL
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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it_user449478 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user521667 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees

It's very stable, we've had no problems with that.

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it_user521589 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436440 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
it_user446727 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/VP of Operations at KnightWorks Consulting, Inc

We have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user421464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisory Software engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had no issues with the stability.

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it_user420012 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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OJ
Arquitecto Delivery at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

This is a very stable and robust database.

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CW
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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MH
Junior Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oracle Database is a stable solution.

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EK
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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RC
Product Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Stability is good. It is a very stable product.

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it_user809490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

It is very stable.

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it_user522036 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin

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

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it_user516438 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

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AK
Founder at a tech company with 1-10 employees

So far, I have never encountered any stability issues.

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it_user480213 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user486513 - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at Grupo luthe

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.

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it_user486543 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user480219 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user419154 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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LS
Chief Technology Officer at SYSDE

The solution is reliable.

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AG
Engineer consultant at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

The stability of this solution is good.

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it_user486519 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user448833 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator (DBA) - Oracle 11g at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We've experienced no issues with performance.

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it_user430962 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

Oracle Database is very stable.

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KD
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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it_user436065 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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SK
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. 

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it_user486582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ERP Developer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have never had an issue with stability.

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it_user436104 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user417387 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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SY
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.

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WG
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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it_user486525 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user436203 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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OV
Technical Manager IT Development at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is a stable product.

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it_user971502 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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YK
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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it_user522138 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA

It's pretty stable.

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it_user521715 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Admin

Stable, absolutely.

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it_user521931 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not experienced any downtime. It is very stable.

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it_user426513 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user480726 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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it_user480216 - PeerSpot reviewer
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. 

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it_user127854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Expert at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I've encountered stability issues with Oracle on Windows Server after regular updates. View full review »
DJ
ETL Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is stable.

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AP
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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SK
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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Buyer's Guide
Oracle Database
March 2024
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