DuckDB vs Oracle Database In-Memory comparison

DuckDB and Oracle are both solutions in the Embedded Database category. DuckDB is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.0, while Oracle is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.3. DuckDB holds a 11.3% mindshare in EDS, compared to Oracle’s 7.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of DuckDB users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

DuckDB

Ranking in Embedded Database

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Oracle Database In-Memory

Ranking in Embedded Database

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Embedded Database category, the mindshare of DuckDB is 11.3%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Database In-Memory is 7.8%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Aleksandr Motuzov

Head of Data Science center of excellence at Ameriabank CJSC

Highly efficient data processing, optimizes infrastructure, and offers good integrations

DuckDB is very fast. If we don't have enough memory, we can use swap. For instance, if we use a fast storage space, the system volume in Kubernetes could be a fast swap for DuckDB if we have memory limits. In our framework, DuckDB is five times faster than Spark in some cases. It has an extensive SQL dialect, many SQL Windows functions, and good integration with Polars. We can easily use SQL and Pandas framework in Python to process data.

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Md Al-Amin

Senior System Analyst at Thakral

Ensures that users experience a good return on investment

Firstly, a user should prepare the operating system for installation, and then we have to copy the software to install the product. When dealing with scenarios related to Oracle Real Application Clusters, users need to add nodes and storage. The setup process is a little bit complex compared to DB2. The setup process of Oracle Database In-Memory takes around five to six hours to install Oracle Real Application Clusters, if everything is okay, apart from which the other processes will take a day. The solution is deployed on an on-premises model. The cloud-based solution is available for testing and development, and it need not be installed in your environment. A user just needs to do a few clicks and select the database, after which it automatically gets installed in the cloud. Only in the on-premises version of the product, there is a need to do some work in the tool.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"DuckDB is very fast."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its performance optimization within our hardware environment."

"It efficiently handles low-code data and supports read-and-write operations for clustering."

"We find the dashboard and the speed of data processing very valuable in Oracle Database In-Memory."

"The most valuable feature is that Database-In-Memory is more consistent and faster than traditional databases as it requires fewer CPUs to process instructions."

"I like Oracle because it is a backward-compatible solution."

"The scalability of the solution is very good. It's able to support large amounts of data."

"The application development is very user-friendly."

"The most valuable aspects of this solution are the fast caching and improved performance to the database"

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Cons

"Sometimes we have memory issues that cause job failures, which we don't fully understand why, but we can rerun the jobs without problems."

"They should improve the solution's scalability for large databases."

"It would be good if Oracle could reduce downtime when transferring from non-In-Memory to In-Memory."

"Technical support is below our expectations currently. It could be improved."

"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The platform’s pricing needs improvement."

"Oracle Database In-Memory appliance-based solutions can be restrictive for some applications, as they may require more flexibility in the database design to be tuned and sized to the customer's needs."

"They should lower the price. My customers think that it's too expensive."

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"The pricing is pretty good so I rate it an eight out of ten."

"The platform's licensing cost needs improvement."

"There is a need to make a yearly payment towards the licensing costs, after which there is any to pay towards the support cost attached to the solution."

"It's quite costly and it comes with a fixed price."

"The solution's pricing is high."

"Oracle Database In-Memory is expensive."

"I rate the pricing a zero out of ten because Database In-Memory is too costly."

"Database In-Memory is priced a bit higher than its competitors like Microsoft."

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11%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DuckDB?

We use the open-source version of DuckDB and don't have costs associated with it. There is a company that provides commercial software, but we use the open-source library, not the services.

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What needs improvement with DuckDB?

Sometimes we have memory issues that cause job failures, which we don't fully understand why, but we can rerun the jobs without problems. There were also problems with binary formats in the previou...

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What is your primary use case for DuckDB?

We use the concept of a feature store. We need the engine, and we use Feast as our feature store framework to build our feature store. We use the DuckDB engine as a data engine, which helps us move...

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What do you like most about Oracle Database In-Memory?

We can integrate it with any data sources as well.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database In-Memory?

Oracle Database In-Memory is very expensive. Additionally, there are extra costs for some features.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database In-Memory?

Oracle Database In-Memory is more expensive than Azure, and the support from the Oracle team is not very good, especially since they do not have a support team in our region.

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Overview

DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP database management system. Processing and storing tabular datasets, e.g., from CSV or Parquet files. Interactive data analysis, e.g., join & aggregate multiple large tables. Concurrent large changes, to multiple large tables, e.g., appending rows, adding/removing/updating columns. Large result set transfer to client.

DuckDB

Oracle Database In-Memory transparently accelerates analytics by orders of magnitude while simultaneously speeding up mixed-workload OLTP. With Oracle Database In-Memory, users get immediate answers to business questions that previously took hours.

Oracle Database In-Memory delivers leading-edge in-memory performance without the need to restrict functionality, or accept compromises, complexity and risk. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory with any existing Oracle Database compatible application is as easy as flipping a switch - no application changes are required. Oracle Database In-Memory is fully integrated with the Oracle Database’s renowned scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability, and security technologies making it the most industrialstrength offering on the market.

The ability to easily perform real-time data analysis together with real-time transaction processing on all existing applications enables organizations to transform into Real-Time Enterprises that quickly make data-driven decisions, respond instantly to customer demands, and continuously optimize all key processes.

For more information on Oracle Database In-Memory, visit Oracle.com

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