Oracle Data Guard vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

Oracle and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Oracle is ranked #24 with an average rating of 9.3, while Veeam Software is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.7. Oracle holds a 0.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veeam Software’s 7.6% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Oracle Data Guard

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Oracle Data Guard and Veeam Data Platform compete in the data protection and recovery category. Veeam Data Platform seems to have the upper hand due to its flexibility and comprehensive feature set, which often justifies its higher price.

Features: Oracle Data Guard offers seamless integration with Oracle databases, real-time data protection, and high availability, making it indispensable for Oracle environments. Veeam Data Platform provides cross-platform compatibility, instant VM recovery, and advanced recovery options to manage diverse ecosystems effectively.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Data Guard could benefit from simpler integration options beyond the Oracle ecosystem, reducing dependency on specialized skills. Enhancing monitoring and reporting capabilities can also add value. Veeam Data Platform could improve by providing even broader platform support, optimizing cost structures for smaller businesses, and integrating more native cloud recovery features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard offers simpler deployment for Oracle-centric environments but requires specialized Oracle skills. Its deep integration benefits those already using Oracle solutions. Veeam Data Platform is known for straightforward setup across various environments, complemented by strong customer service, making it adaptable to diverse IT infrastructures.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard is cost-effective for Oracle environments, ensuring a good ROI for businesses engaged heavily with Oracle products. Veeam Data Platform, despite its higher initial cost, provides robust ROI through versatile data management and rapid recovery capabilities, appealing to businesses with varied data protection needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veeam Data Platform

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

430

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Data Platform is 7.6%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Veeam Data Platform	7.6%
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Other	91.5%

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Azhagupandi Parthiban

Vice President Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers near-real-time replication for data consistency and continuously introducing new features through upgrades

There are various advantages. First of all, easy to deploy. The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. In other ways, the implementation is very, very important. Like, we have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product. Once you configure it, it goes through the rollback, and then Data Guard introduces this snapshot thing. So once the restoration happens, we can go back to the original thing, and we make that a standard. It's a pretty decent and key function for Oracle. So, enterprise organizations go for Oracle only for features like these.

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JitendraSadaye

Associate Technical Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Backup operations have become reliable and reporting now simplifies hybrid cloud protection

Veeam Data Platform has Veeam Enterprise Manager as well as Veeam ONE as valuable features, which allow us to generate various kinds of reports that are required for the customer. Instant VM Recovery is a good feature of the high-speed recovery features in Veeam Data Platform, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is also a good feature. Ransomware protection is a good feature added in Veeam Data Platform from version 12 onwards, and the ability to create immutable repositories is also a good feature in Veeam. The analytics part of Veeam Data Platform is a good solution because I have worked on various backup technologies such as EMC NetWorker and NetBackup. However, I have not used the analytical parts currently but will check it out. Streamlining processes as well as saving money are benefits that Veeam Data Platform provides for the end user, as it allows for application-aware backups and database backups without the need for various kinds of licenses that other backup software requires. Veeam offers socket-based licenses, instance-based licenses, and capacity-based licenses, which is a great feature.

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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

"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."

"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."

"The most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."

"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."

"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."

"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."

"The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test it, and then revert it back to the original state without needing to restore the complete database from the primary data center to the disaster recovery."

"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."

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"Veeam Data Platform is the first recommendation from my company and me, as it's easy to set up, and the portal and management are very straightforward compared to competitors."

"The product could be improved if they wrote more PowerShell scripts for controlling Veeam."

"The fast backup and restore feature is the most valuable."

"The setup was quite simple."

"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup & Replication is that we can back up in-house and multiple cloud providers' storage."

"I like all the backup features in Veeam."

"The solution's customer service is good."

"From my experience, Veeam is very good. Its interface is user-friendly. We can restore it whenever. It's not complicated. It's very easy to manage and administration is very easy."

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Cons

"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."

"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."

"The product could improve its pricing."

"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."

"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."

"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."

"The database administration needs improvement. With Oracle, we have a lot of features for administrating data, but it might be too many. It needs to be simplified. It should be automated. Looking at Enterprise Manager, there are too many KPIs in place."

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"The initial setup was not straightforward at all."

"They need to support more platforms."

"There is some complexity we have experienced when using the solution that should be simplified."

"In the past, Veeam had a host-based license, but now it will be part of Microsoft's core license. I don't like this licensing model. Host-based licensing is better for my system. Maybe so other organizations prefer the core-based."

"I would rate the technical support from Veeam 6 out of 10 because I have faced difficulties due to response time and quality of support."

"Its import and export processes for information and policies could be better."

"The patching can be quite difficult at times."

"The reports are basic and not customizable, making it challenging to get detailed insights."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"Oracle Data Guard is a feature available only in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and is available for extra cost."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

"The cost is expensive."

"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

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"I don't have an issue with the price of Veeam Backup Replication."

"I would rate the pricing six out of ten when compared to other competitors."

"Veeam Backup Replication can be quite expensive for Office 365 because its license is per user and not for the space that you use. You need one license for each user. If the user only uses a few files on one hard drive, you need a license to back up these files. It was better to have a license model, such as in the Cohesity solution. Cohesity has a license for a space that you use. It's more useful in this case because the license for backup data is on-premises is for CPU. The license is based on how many CPUs you have but it does not depend on how many users use the CPU."

"Several licensing schemes are available."

"The price is a bit high."

"When it comes to pricing for a backup solution for data centers, you do not care about the price. We just care about the service and want it to be reliable. In terms of subscription, it really makes sense. When you want to use all the functionalities it is good that Veeam did the subscription-based model, this is what gives it the most strength on the price."

"The price of Veeam Backup Replication is reasonable."

"Veeam Backup Replication has a lot of free features. We have a mixture of the paid versions as well as the community version. They are really helpful to us."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	217
Midsize Enterprise	99
Large Enterprise	139

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?

Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...

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How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...

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Also Known As

Active Data Guard

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication

Overview

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

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Veeam Data Platform is a leader in data resilience, providing businesses with reliable and secure backup, recovery, and advanced data insights. It is designed to combat today's cyber threats while ensuring data remains protected, adaptable, and recoverable.

Engineered to offer a seamless and powerful data resilience experience, Veeam Data Platform helps organizations with intelligent protection beyond just backup. It enables orchestrated and verifiable recovery processes, helping maintain continuous operations. By offering integrated solutions against evolving cyber threats, this platform assures businesses of data availability and precision restoration, empowering them to remain resilient under any circumstances. Its robust security features, coupled with efficient replication and deduplication benefits, deliver confidence in data management across hybrid and cloud deployments.

What features make Veeam Data Platform stand out?

Ease of Use: Simplifies data management across environments.
Reliable Backups: Ensures data integrity and safety at all times.
Instant Recovery: Supports rapid restoration for business continuity.
Seamless Integration: Works well with VM environments like VMware and Hyper-V.
Efficient Deduplication and Compression: Optimizes storage usage.
SureBackup and SureReplica: Provides disaster recovery assurance.
Robust Monitoring: Enhances visibility with flexible reporting.

What benefits and ROI come from using Veeam Data Platform?

Data Security: Comprehensive protection against cyber threats.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlined processes support business agility.
Adaptability: Versatile for hybrid deployments and complex infrastructures.
Cost Management: Optimizes resources and infrastructure costs.
Confidence in Recovery: Ensures precise and reliable data restoration.

Veeam Data Platform is primarily used for managing backup and replication across VMware and Hyper-V environments, supporting both cloud and on-premises infrastructures. In industries managing significant IT services, it assists in disaster recovery and virtual machine protection, enhancing business continuity. Its integration with applications like Microsoft Office 365 ensures reliable data protection and quick recovery, making it beneficial for those looking to streamline operations across diverse deployment scenarios.

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Sample Customers

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