Oracle Database as a Service vs vCloud Air comparison

Oracle and Virtustream are both solutions in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category. Oracle is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Virtustream is ranked #21. Oracle holds a 7.7% mindshare in DS, compared to Virtustream’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Virtustream users who would recommend it.

Oracle Database as a Service

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2024

Both vCloud Air and Oracle Database as a Service are notable for cloud-based services, with Oracle having an upper hand in database functionalities. vCloud Air is stronger in integration and data recovery.

Features: vCloud Air is known for seamless integration with on-premise environments, robust data recovery options, and infrastructure capabilities. Oracle Database as a Service stands out with comprehensive database management tools, scalability, and superior database functionalities suitable for data-centric applications.

Room for Improvement: vCloud Air needs to enhance service reliability, expand features, and focus on stability. Oracle Database as a Service should improve its initial setup process, provide more cost transparency, and streamline user onboarding.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCloud Air offers straightforward deployment but has mixed customer service feedback. Oracle Database as a Service has a more complex deployment but provides better customer support.

Pricing and ROI: vCloud Air is cost-effective with quicker ROI, ideal for budget constraints. Oracle Database as a Service, though more expensive, justifies its cost with advanced features and better long-term value.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database as a Service

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

vCloud Air

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Oracle Database as a Service is 7.7%, down from 9.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCloud Air is 1.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Database as a Service	7.7%
vCloud Air	1.4%
Other	90.9%

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reviewer2728149

Presales Manager | Global at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Have consistently achieved efficient integrations and availability

I am more focused on the leadership side and having the right human plans to make things happen. There are some parts available, but our goal is to move toward a single platform. I would prefer to remain anonymous in discussions. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Oracle Database as a Service a seven.

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Saurabh Chandratre

Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora

With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.

All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.

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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

"The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy."

"The solution is stable."

"The functionalities and capabilities that I prefer the most in Oracle Database as a Service are the database replication function for high availability, which is what we are using."

"We have the ability to build several solutions to according to the requirements of our users."

"The Oracle Multitenant feature of 12c is awesome. This feature enables us to consolidate disparate databases under one container database and eases manageability of the databases. It also allows us to scale."

"The solution's technical support is good."

"We are really excited about multitenancy, the whole security aspect, and then the performance as such."

"It is a good solution and has a large community."

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"The Cloud DRaaS solution provided the organization with new levels of flexibility and cost control, together with rapid expansion capability."

"VMware Workstation has an interesting feature to manage vSphere infrastructure (and also stand-alone ESXi hosts) that is really powerful and useful, for example to avoid to install the vSphere client (or the integration plugin) just to open one VM console or to change the power status for some VM."

"This is the part that should be making admins and CIOs smile."

Cons

"Currently, there is no simple method to modify the orchestrations on which the compute hosts are based."

"The interface can be difficult and there may be so many features that users and even vendors are unaware that they exist."

"Some bugs could be fixed. There have been some internal software bugs, just like any other newly released software. These bugs gets fixed by patch updates from Oracle on regular basis."

"Pricing for Oracle Database as a Service could be cheaper, so this is an area for improvement."

"The product must improve its performance."

"We have not really seen an ROI since the product is so expensive."

"Oracle Database as a Service could improve the provisioning. You have to recreate on-premise hardware environments in the cloud, it was not very intuitive."

"The initial setup is complex. This is not a really easy solution. It is very large, so it's hard to install, but it's not impossible."

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"I feel the user interface/portal can be improved further. I did experience timeout issues and the UI was performing slowly at times."

"I don’t think it is quite where EC2 is with regard to capabilities and features but VMware is investing a lot in vCloud Air."

"It’s a really good idea, but the current implementation is very limited: you can simply see your VMs and just open the VM console."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle Database as a Service is always a bit costly, but it's an excellent service. My company used the on-premises version, and that was costly."

"Oracle Database as a Service is an expensive product."

"The solution's price is reasonable but depends upon the negotiation."

"It is an expensive product. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

"The solution is based on an annual fee."

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service is reasonable."

"The price of Oracle Database as a Service could be better."

"Oracle Database is less expensive than the previous solution we used."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

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Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	32

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database as a Service?

The setup cost is approximately four hours.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database as a Service?

I see some negative sides that could be improved, and that is the licensing. The issue with licensing is the price and the way they license through partners.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Database as a Service?

My clients mainly use Oracle Database as a Service for business applications that are built on Oracle, and we provide the infrastructure services for those applications.

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Also Known As

Oracle DBaaS, Oracle Database Cloud

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Overview

Oracle Database Cloud Service combines the power of Oracle Database, with the unique capabilities of the Oracle Cloud. The service provides a secure, automated data management platform that leverages on demand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via a simple web based user interface and RESTful API. Oracle Database Cloud Service provides elastic database services for development, test, and production environments of custom and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and mixed workload applications. It enables businesses to reap all Oracle Platform as a Service (PaaS) benefits including subscriptionbased, self-service access to reliable, scalable, and elastic cloud environments and accelerates time to value by simplifying the provisioning and administration of Oracle databases.

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vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.

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