Oracle Database Reviews

Name: Oracle Database
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (288 reviews)

Vendor: Oracle

4.3 out of 5

288 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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What is Oracle Database?

Oracle Database is a top-ranking multi-model database management system by Oracle Corporation. Through Oracle database services and products, clients receive cost-optimized and high-performing versions of Oracle Database, as well as in-memory, NoSQL, and MySQL databases. The solution is available by several service providers on premises, in the cloud, or as a hybrid installation. It can be run on vendor servers as well as on Oracle hardware, including Exadata on-premise, Oracle Cloud, or Cloud at Customer.

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Oracle Database is the #2 ranked solution in top Relational Databases. PeerSpot users give Oracle Database an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle Database is most commonly compared to SQL Server: Oracle Database vs SQL Server. Oracle Database is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 70% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Duy AnhMai

Product Owner at Heineken

I use Oracle Database just for storage of the corporate database data and the finance data I use Oracle Database just for storage of the corporate database data and the finance data. However, I find the dashboard to be complicated and not user-friendly. The dashboard is not user-friendly, and I…

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Gnanavel-Chakkarapani

Junior Consultant at CMA CGM

The tool's deployment and configuration is difficult. Sometimes, the network DNS settings aren't connected, so we need to check and enable the configuration, which is the difficult part. Maintenance requires a bit of effort. We need to monitor the database performance, check the number of concurrent users on Oracle, and handle any unwanted queries from users. You need at least two people to do it.

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Amey Darekar

Personal Banker at HDFC Bank

I don't have operational experience. I don't know how to use Oracle Database in applications. I used to install the product earlier, but I am now responsible for defining the security requirements to be implemented in our organization. I recommend the product to others. It is a stable solution. The product is able to fulfill the requirements of its users. In terms of the security part of the product, a more secure environment can be implemented by implementing encryption and other such areas. The migration process from other tools to Oracle Database is very simple. In terms of the benefits of the tool, I feel that the product adds value since it offers stability and the support is really good. I rate the tool a nine out of ten.

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Oracle Database mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Oracle Database in the Relational Databases Tools category stands at 13.2%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports based on Oracle Database reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Relational Databases Tools	Mar 3, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Mar 3, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Database vs SQL Server	Mar 3, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Database vs MySQL	Mar 3, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Database vs SAP HANA	Mar 3, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
SQL Server	4.2	19.3%	93%	268 interviews Add to research
MySQL	4.1	8.5%	91%	148 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"It is highly secure, with an architecture that prevents hacking incidents, making it the most secure database available."
"I use Oracle Database just for storage of the corporate database data and the finance data."
"Oracle's performance optimization has had an excellent impact on our database."

Room for Improvement

"The pricing could be more cost-effective, as the high price is driving some customers to consider migrating to open-source alternatives."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly."
"Oracle itself does not provide an excellent migration tool to users, which is a shortcoming where the product needs to improve a lot."

Pricing

"The tool's price is high. The price is very high in the Asia-Pacific region. The European and US regions don't find the tool's prices high."
"The tool is expensive. Compared to its stability and eligibility, the tool is expensive, but if I consider the tool's ROI to be better, the tool is affordable with its set of features."
"The platform is highly-priced."

Popular Use Cases

Oracle Database is primarily used for enterprise business applications, including ERP, CRM, data warehousing, and transaction processing. It supports financial applications, business intelligence, inventory management, and core banking systems. Many companies use it to host and manage large datasets, perform data warehouse functions, and support customized software for various industries. It is deployed on-premises and in cloud environments, widely adopted for its robust database management capabilities and scalability.

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

11%

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Learn more about Oracle Database

Users can select from various types of Oracle Database solutions, depending on what they aim to do with this product. Based on their specific needs, they can choose among options that include:

Autonomously managed Oracle databases: This type of database eliminates the complexity of operating and securing Oracle Database, while simultaneously ensuring high levels of performance, scalability, and availability for users.
Oracle Database on Exadata: Users who seek particularly fast platforms can select this type of running solution. Exadata is a computing platform that is optimized for running Oracle Databases and it serves as the fastest platform for Oracle Database.
Oracle Database on-premises deployment: The product allows for deployment on-premises for clients who have data residency and network latency concerns. This option also offers customers the benefit of updated Oracle Cloud technology, including Exadata and Autonomous Database.
Oracle Database in the cloud: Organizations can use a specific version of this tool in the cloud, benefiting from complete control over the versions they run and when these versions change.

Part of this product is a fully automated database service called Oracle Autonomous Database, which facilitates the development and deployment of application workloads for organizations. It is built on Oracle Database as well as on Oracle Exadata. This service supports various data types and simplifies application development and deployment from modeling and coding to extract, transform, load process (ETL), data analysis, and database optimization. The service achieves high results in:

Performance
Availability
Security for online transaction processing (OLTP)
Analytics
Batch
Internet of Things (IoT) workloads

Oracle Database Features

Oracle Database has various features which users can utilize in their work with the solution. Among these features are the following:

Backup and recovery: Oracle Database ensures the integrity of users' data in system failure situations. This feature utilizes a tool named Recovery Manager (RMAN), which allows administrators to perform cold, hot, and incremental database backups, as well as point-in-time recoveries.
Clustering: This feature enables high availability of systems in order to run without interruption of services on occasions when one or more servers in a cluster fail. Included is a tool called Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Data dictionary: Through this set of internal tables and views, Oracle Database can be administered more efficiently.
Logical data structure: Through its feature for logical data structure, Oracle Database stores data in a way that allows users to interact with the database without knowing where the physical storage of the data is located.
Memory catching: Through the memory caching architecture feature, users can scale up very large databases and still perform at a considerably high speed.
Partitioning: This feature allows users to divide large tables into different pieces and store the pieces across storage devices.

Oracle Database Benefits

Oracle Database offers its users various benefits. Some of these include:

The solution decreases costs for organizations and provides a high return on investment (ROI) through the multiple services and features it offers.
Oracle Database has high-security protection which includes encryption, key management, data masking, and activity monitoring, that secures organizations' data within the tool.
The tool offers users the ability to use a single database for all data types, simplifying the process for them.
Oracle Database can be deployed in multiple places, including data centers and public and private clouds, which allows great flexibility for users.
The product allows applications from different platforms to communicate with the database through its networking stack.
Oracle Database is ACID-compliant, which helps maintain data reliability and integrity.

Reviews from Real Users

Paul S., president at Advance Consulting Enterprise, likes Oracle Database because it gets the job done, doesn't fail, and suitable for massively scalable applications.

An Oracle DBA at a computer software company describes Oracle Database as reliable with good performance and very good stability.

Oracle Database was previously known as Oracle 12c, RDBMS.

Oracle Database customers

Agncia Nacional de guas, Anbima, Aria Systems, Asiana Airlines, Astelit LLC, Australian Finance Group, Banco Occidental de Descuento, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, BT, Caja de Seguros S.A., Casas GEO S.A.B. de C.V., Comic Relief UK, Corsair Components Inc., CSAM Health AS, CSOB Group, Datacraft Solutions, DenizBank A.S., Department of Treasury and Finance WA, Office of State Revenue, Deutsche B_rse AG, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Deutsche Messe AG, Digicel Haiti, DPR COSEA, Essar Group, Essatto Software Pty Ltd, Farmšcia e Drogaria Nissei Ltda., Fomento Econ‹mico Mexicano S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA), FundaÊo Petrobras de Seguridade Social, Future Group, GFKL Financial Services AG, Grupo Posadas S.A.B. de C.V., Grupo Sinosserra, Guerra S.A. Implementos Rodovišrios, Hanatour International Service, Hays plc, Henan Mobile Co. Ltd, Hochschule Hof, Hong Kong and China Technology (Wuhan) Co. Ltd (Towngas Technology), Industries Corpa_al C.A., Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatstica, Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial, Kcell, LinkShare Corporation, MercadoLibre Inc., MetLife Inc., Nextgen Distribution, €BB-IKT GmbH, Octagon Research Solutions, Pacific Lutheran University, Paragon Data GmbH, Ping ltd., PJSC Trustbank, Prodaub _ Processamento de Dados de Uberl_ndia, Purdue University, Redknee Inc., Robi Axiata Limited, Shanghai Infoservice Technology Co. Ltd, Shanghai Sihua Technologies Co. Ltd, Sistema de Aguas de la Ciudad de M_xico, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Suddenlink Communications, Suprajit Engineering Limited, Tallink Grupp, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., Therap Services LLC, Think Passenger Inc., Trafigura, Transmed S.A.L Lebanon, ValeShop, VelQuest Corporation, Vodafone Group plc, West Virginia Network, WIND Hellas Telecommunications S.A