Oracle Database as a Service Reviews

In general, it's for our billing systems and for customers and customer service.

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

It is easy to set up.

The solution scales well.

It is stable and reliable. 

Performance always is an important issue. The product must improve its performance.

I've been using the solution for five years. 

The stability has been great. We don't have bugs or glitches. It is reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze.

Of course, we could always use better performance. 

So far, we have found the solution to be scalable.

We have 1,000 people directly and 50,000 people indirectly using the solution. 

Technical so far has been pretty good. 

The solution has a straightforward setup. It is not complex or difficult. 

We have a corporate license. I'm just using it. I don't have the details in terms of exact cost.

I'm just a customer. 

I use the on-premises and the as-a-service versions. 

I'd advise those considering the solution to first be careful to design it before beginning. 

I'd rate the product ten out of ten overall. 

Our primary use case for this Oracle solution is as the repository for applications developed in-house. I'm a software and integration architect and we are customers of Oracle. 

I like that the solution is easy to onboard. There's no database on-premise that requires installation from scratch. Without the serverless option, installation is a very complicated process. It requires hardware as well as DBAs, operating system, and network administrators. With Database as a Service, you can be up and running the same day.

Although we do not need to set up our own indexes, because the solution internally improves the queries, when we migrate to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost. The solution doesn't provide an option for migrating the index optimization to another instance.

I've been using this service for nearly three years.

The solution is stable. 

I believe it is scalable although we haven't had the opportunity to do that yet. 

We have the Oracle Support Subscription and they have been helpful. We also have Advanced Customer Services from Oracle.

We have set up the solution numerous times and it has been very easy.

I recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

We value the single data run that the solution provides.

The stability of the product can be improved.

We have been using the solution for approximately fifteen years.

The solution is not very stable.

The solution is scalable. Approximately 100 people utilize it in our organization. 

We do not have experience with customer service and support.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's included in our server, and we have a data center with several devices.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

We use the solution for different projects. One is our ERP project. One we are using for billing purposes for a billing project. However, we later migrated that. We also use it for payment systems. We've used it for two or three projects.

In terms of technicality, Oracle is very good. However, in terms of licensing, it comes at a very high cost. They should have worked on a costing basis. 

It's a very robust database product. It has more capabilities like object storage, file-level storage, and database. The activity redundancy in the database is great. There is DCDR replication. It also has a GUI interface, so we can get the dashboard capabilities and can manage and monitor some things in the database from that GUI interface.

The solution is stable.

It is scalable. 

Technical support has been great.

It doesn't have an in-built database load balancer, like a database proxy and a database firewall. It should provide this feature also, the database load balancing.

The deployment is complex. 

We used the solution for almost seven years.

It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good. 

I have found that the solution is scalable. 

We have 100 or so users. For the databases, we are using them for more transactions, like 50 or 60 more for all the transactions we are getting with our system.

At this point, we do not have plans to increase usage. 

The solution has good technical support. We find them to be helpful and responsive. 

Positive

I have used a different solution prior to Oracle. I can't recall the name of the product, however. 

The initial setup is very complex. It's not exactly straightforward. 

We only need three people to handle the deployment. That includes one technician and two DB admins.

We had help from Oracle with the setup.

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

The product comes with a perpetual license with the per socket license. You have the sockets in your server, and you have to pay for them. However, the licensing cost is very dynamic. It depends upon your license provider or the Oracle product manager. The cost depends upon that.

It's a very expensive product.

There may be an open-source option. However, Oracle has proprietary features. Still, it is quite costly in terms of the environment.

I'd recommend potential new users work on their licensing and requirements before procuring the Oracle licenses. They need to manage their ATS cost also in future plans if they're planning for two years or more. They should take care of this ATS part also and decide what their requirements are so they can get a good discount on that.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

The primary use case for this solution for the clients I have been working with is building applications and storing their data in the database. My other use case is helping companies set up data guards for high availability.

Oracle has helped our organization by being a reliable solution that is stable with zero crashes. The differentiation between Oracle's database and other databases is that Oracle needs more attention. It's not a click here, click there solution, it needs more time put in, but once you do that, it's ready to go and you can forget about it.

The most valuable feature is the solution's ability to seamless transform a primary into a standby database. When setting up failover where you have an active and a standby database and production goes down, you don't know if there are any issues. So, a seamless switch over to the standby is valuable because you can work on the production that has gone down to fix the problem.

The area in this solution that could be improved is that currently, it's difficult to do the setup. You need to do all kinds of command lines to get it set up. If that setup becomes easier and easily manageable, that would be great.

In the next release, I'd like to see a simpler connection between Oracle and other databases like SQL, MySQL, or a DB tool. I'd also like to see a simpler way to pull data from those external databases. This would add value to Oracle in my opinion.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service since 2007. That adds up to around 16 years. I started using Oracle when it was Oracle version 10.

The cost of licensing for this solution is quite high. 

When it comes to other people looking into this solution, I would advise double-checking the pricing as it's quite high for Oracle. Other than that, go for it.

Overall, I would rate this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

Debugging this solution is challenging. 

I have been using this solution for twenty years. 

I would rate this solution an eight or nine for stability. 

This solution does not offer the best scalability. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

The customer service for this solution is very good. I would rate them a nine out of ten. 

Positive

I would rate the initial setup a seven out of ten. Deployment took two years. 

This is an expensive solution. 

I use this solution because it is a powerful database and is faster than others. It has so many features. When I compare it with other database, I prefer the Oracle Database.

I would rate this solution an eight of ten. 

We are using Oracle Database as a Service when we need to extract information for a web service. Additionally, I use the solution for filtering and triggering information.

Oracle Database as a Service has been helpful because I can use it on my laptop when I need to write to the databases.

The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch.

Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data.

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

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

We use Oracle Database as a Service for analytical purposes.

Oracle Database as a Service is the main engine many thousand people use here in Quebec.

Oracle Database as a Service's most valuable feature is its financial applications.

Oracle Database as a Service's initial setup was very complex.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service for 25 years.

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

Oracle Database as a Service is a scalable product. I'm a contractor and have contracts with many government organizations. And here in Quebec, over a hundred thousand people use Oracle Database as a Service.

Oracle Database as a Service has good customer support.

Oracle Database as a Service's pricing is good.

Oracle Database as a Service is a good product with a pretty good performance.

Overall, I rate Oracle Database as a Service a nine out of ten.