Oracle Database as a Service Reviews

We are using Oracle Database as a Service mainly for pulling out audit reports and for connecting to our application.

One area for improvement would be the ability to connect to Excel directly from the database. Currently, I am unable to do this with Oracle Database as a Service, whereas I am able to do so with SQL Server. I would like to see Oracle Database as a Service offer a similar service to what SQL Server provides in terms of connecting Excel to the database. 

In the next release, I would like to see a feature that allows for easy transfer of data from MySQL to other databases, such as SQL Server. Having this capability would provide developers with more flexibility in their coding.

We've been working with Oracle Database as a Service for 10 years now. We are currently using MySQL Database for our Oracle and it's been working well for everyone.

The solution is stable.

It is a scalable solution.

The initial setup is easy and takes only around 15-20 minutes. It's pretty fast.

The licensing cost is reasonable. 

I would rate it a seven out of ten. While it's a good product to use, there is room for improvement in terms of flexibility and additional features.

Oracle Database as a Service is a scalable and robust solution. It scales with the business. The solution provides good capacity, integrity control, and quality when inserting data into the database.

The solution’s initial setup is very complex.

I have been using the solution for 25 to 30 years.

Oracle Database as a Service is a very stable solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability ten out of ten.

The solution provides very good technical support. Opening a technical assistance request on Oracle's website is quick.

Positive

I have previously used the Microsoft database tool, which was not as scalable as Oracle Database as a Service.

Setting up the solution is very complex, and you need a database administrator for that. A very good database administrator with deep knowledge and one or two people to assist him is enough to implement the solution.

Oracle Database as a Service is one of the world's most important database systems. It's also one of the best Oracle products, and that's why I've been working with it all my career.

A multidimensional database called Oracle Express was integrated into Oracle Database as a Service. One or two full-time people are enough to maintain the solution. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution ten out of ten.

I used Oracle Database as a Service as a secure database.

What I like about Oracle Database as a Service is that it has excellent stability, and the development is effortless. No other database compares with Oracle Database as a Service in twenty-five years.

I also like the enhanced queries in Oracle Database as a Service. I've been using analytical queries and classes, which is what I like best about the service.

The service also has a VR feature which is excellent, though I'm not using that feature.

I also like how speedy Oracle Database as a Service is.

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

I used Oracle Database as a Service for a few years as the company was using it.

I found Oracle Database as a Service excellent, stability-wise.

Oracle Database as a Service is highly scalable.

Support for Oracle Database as a Service is always good.

The initial setup for Oracle Database as a Service is straightforward. There was no difficulty in its deployment. It was easy to deploy.

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. I have yet to learn about the cost of the cloud version, though.

My experience is with Oracle Database Administrator, Oracle Report Builder, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Client/Server, and Oracle Database as a Service.

I used version 12 of Oracle Database as a Service.

In the company, over five hundred people worked on Oracle Database as a Service in the last four or five years.

There's no plan to increase the usage of Oracle Database as a Service because the company is moving to another provider.

Five people, including a manager or supervisor, took care of the deployment and maintenance of Oracle Database as a Service.

I recommend Oracle Database as a Service to midsized and large-scale companies, mainly if you use the Oracle Email Delivery Service, which also requires going with Oracle Analytics Cloud. In today's modern world, if you're not using Oracle E-Business Suite and you store your data in the data warehouse and collect data from different interactive devices, such as cameras, the best solution is Oracle Database as a Service, partnered with Oracle Business Intelligence.

My rating for Oracle Database as a Service is ten out of ten, as no other service is comparable.

Our main use cases include initiating the setup of a hosting application and facilitating developers in utilizing the database, as well as managing backups and data storage.

It's an outstanding database. It effortlessly hosts applications for months and exhibits exceptional reliability. The database delivers top-tier performance.

The most valuable features are performance, backup, and restore capabilities.

The installation process requires improvement as it can be quite complex. Simplifying the procedure would certainly be beneficial. There is room for enhancing the administration tools, possibly by providing better separation of functions.

I have been using it for twenty years.

It offers excellent stability capabilities. I would rate it nine out of ten.

Due to its stability, the technology allows for seamless node transitions. Data storage, porting, backup, and restoration processes function smoothly. This makes scaling up quite straightforward, with built-in features supporting scalability. If the need for more robust capabilities arises, transitioning to the enterprise edition is an option. Partitioning functions, which experienced leaders in this field can attest to, further enhance scalability. I would rate it eight out of ten.

The customer support services are good. I would rate it a seven out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup was challenging. I would rate it three out of ten.

The implementation process varies in complexity. Setting up the basic configuration typically takes about half a day. However, when dealing with complex setups like shared data centers and clustered environments, it can extend to two weeks or more. The installation process can sometimes involve repetitive steps, mainly involving prerequisite checks. It's crucial to carefully pre-activate the necessary database components before proceeding with the installation. In some cases, the environment can become intricate, with known bugs in clustered setups. When facing such challenges, documentation from Oracle support can be a valuable resource. Once it is installed, the rest of the process goes smoothly. Still, there are many specifics to consider, especially when completing cluster deployments, particularly in newer releases, which can be unfamiliar territory.

It is notably expensive when compared to the features offered by other alternatives. However, Oracle offers specific and unique capabilities. I would rate it ten out of ten in terms of cost.

It is an excellent product and service to launch your career with. If you become proficient in it, it can set you up for a twenty-year-long career. I would rate it eight out of ten.

My expertise is to evaluate whether there are any technologies of Oracle Database to be replaced or migrated from Oracle to other tools like MongoDB or Cassandra.

I use the solution for different transactions, data guard administration, and for analytics.

There are people in my company who know a lot of Oracle technologies. My teams have huge experience in this technology. Considering a standard industry, it is a developed system. It's very easy to use in general.

Feature-wise, the most valuable ones are its support and the fact that there is s lot of knowledge or experience related to the solution for my team.

It's a very expensive product. So, the pricing needs to be improved.

Big data use cases involving analytics, especially advanced analytics like machine learning, I need to improve in Oracle.

I use Oracle Database on all my platforms and systems in my company. I have been using the solution for ten years. Currently, I am using Oracle Database 11g.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. Regarding plans to use Oracle Database even more in the future, my expectation is to try to replace it with some open-source technologies.

I rate the technical support a six out of ten.

Neutral

The solution's initial setup process was easy.

The ROI has not been good. In the past, it was good, though.

It is a very expensive tool.

I recommend the solution to those planning to use it. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We usually use the on-premise version, but we have also implemented it on the cloud in three or four projects.

Our primary use case is probably with regards to the ease of management. It actually reduces the cost of the databases. Also, the storage cases we are dealing with are different. It is not just the client. We also use Database as a Service.

it's save a lot of time, there are no need for example to senior DBA to manage the database which is saved money include to that, this is what we touch in the company.

One of the key features is Oracle Database as a Service. We chose to implement it as a service, which provides good performance, for example. Flexibility and other features let us implement database research with the SQL team range of features also.

You can meet your principle DevOps needs for scaling.

The direct scaling is a feature that has room for improvement. I would like to see virtual management machines that can scale storage well with zero downtime. The backup option and patching would then be much easier to do.

I would also like to implement CDI with Database as a Service.

There is also room for improvement with regards to scalability and availability. The maintenance is also an issue. When Oracle does maintenance, you need to be prepared because everything will be down.

It's very good. It helps make the DBA work much easier, to be honest with you. The features from Oracle are amazing and it adapts multiple delivery models for the database itself.

You can scale everything fine with this solution.

We only need one person for deployment and one for maintenance.

The initial setup was straightforward. You don't actually have to deploy anything in Oracle Database as a Service. It's pretty easy. There is no special requirement to work with the team or anything.

Deployment time depends on the solution you choose because you have virtual machine builds and terminals. If it is a terminal, for example, it will take you between two or three minutes. While the virtual machine will need between 15 and 40 minutes.

The price depends on the solution you choose: standard, enterprise, or high performance. For example, enterprise can start between 0.4 an hour up to 1,800.

Additional fees also depend on what package you choose. Your fees will be different if you choose the standard, enterprise, high performance, or extreme package. You will pay in relation to what option you ask for.

The price is very good if you compare it to other databases.

Be aware that migration actually takes some time. Also, keep in mind what your data size is. If you are going to have a huge database size, just migrate to Database as a Service.

I would rate this as nine out of ten.

Oracle Database as a Service is used to manage full-featured Oracle Database instances.

The most valuable features of Oracle Database as a Service are configuration and troubleshooting.

Oracle Database as a Service could improve the performance when monitoring.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service for approximately 10 years.

The stability of the solution is high.

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

Most of my clients are small to medium-sized businesses.

I rate the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service a seven out of ten.

We do not use the vendor's support but we use online resources.

I rate the support from Oracle Database as a Service a seven out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup of Oracle Database as a Service is simple. The deployment took approximately one to two years.

I rate the initial setup of Oracle Database as a Service a nine out of ten.

We have two people who deploy the solution.

The price of Oracle Database as a Service is expensive.

I rate the price of Oracle Database as a Service a nine out of ten.

We have two to three people who maintain the solution.

We are looking to switch to another solution, such as MongoDB or Postgres SQL.

I rate Oracle Database as a Service an eight out of ten.

It provides the ability to run from a simple schema base to a real application database, including the option to run it on the Oracle public cloud. In cases where the customer has an issue with data locality or privacy, the option to seamlessly switch to a Oracle public cloud machine in the customer's own DC makes this the most flexible cloud solution.

The automatic inclusion of all database options in Enterprise Edition (EE), Extreme Performance and Exadata cloud service make this product very attractive.

Previously, when proposing cloud solutions for Oracle database to enterprise clients the lack of a viable high availability solution was often cost prohibitive. Oracle offers this as a standard option. With Active Dataguard freely available for Extreme Performance, there is no enterprise cloud service catering to the Oracle database that can match this offering

Currently, there is no simple method to modify the orchestrations on which the compute hosts are based. Hence, unlike the IaaS Oracle services, in cases where there is a need to make certain changes to the service, such as adding an IP network or a GRE tunnel, it requires specialized skills from the backend. However, we expect with the rapid pace of innovation that the feature to modify advanced aspects might be added on the fly in later versions.

We have been experimenting with the solution for just over a year now and we have clients that are going live on the system as I write this.

We saw some minor hiccups to do with networking and connectivity. We also were utilizing the Exadata database cloud service for one client and faced some issues with the cloud tooling. One minor problem was if we created a database of a particular name in capitals, deleted the database, and then tried to recreate the same database but with small letters, the cloud tooling would not allow this. We raised the issue to Oracle, who provided a fix and will incorporate this in the next version of the Exadata cloud tooling.

On the whole, the system was very stable. We only faced one unexplained hiccup, when a server was rebooted and we were not able to track down the root cause.

We did not face any issues with scalability. We are using Oracle OTD for high-availability scale out, which was initially active-passive but later an active-active solution was provided.

We have had very responsive customer support. On several occasions, the Oracle Cloud A-Team directly came on the call with us to help resolve issues.

The technical team from the vendor side was quite knowledgeable and we were able to resolve some network routing issues quite quickly.

We have used other cloud providers. However, they did not have a true high-availability cloud solution. The second issue we found is that I/O bandwidth was comparatively variable on the other cloud providers and we could not scale easily beyond a few terabytes without facing I/O bottlenecks.

Because we had taken training on the platform, it was very familiar for us. However, it would not be so easy for someone implementing this from scratch. We would recommend going with an experienced managed service provider.The platform provides surprising flexibility for something that is billed as platform as a service.

We are ourselves a cloud service provider team that implemented for several customers.

This varies across our customers but they all are seeing benefits over their erstwhile in-house solutions.

The cloud option provides a lot of benefits for Oracle shops, as it reduces the upfront costs and converts the licensing costs to a running cost.

We have utilized other cloud and hosted platforms such as Azure, Macquarie Telecom, Verizon, Xerox, etc. However, this option was superior for Oracle Database hosting.

This provides an enterprise-class cloud solution that can scale to terabyte-sized databases in the cloud without having to compromise.