Oracle Database as a Service Reviews

Our clients have a variety of use cases for this solution. It can be used at gas stations and supermarkets. 

Clients come to us with huge on-prem databases. Because of the size of the databases, it can be difficult to grow to cloud. Thanks to Oracle Database as a Service, we can help these clients migrate quickly. 

Oracle solutions give our clients visibility.

No company is perfect, but Oracle does need to improve their support. They need to really focus on the customer experience, et cetera. 

I would also like to see them improve the Oracle Database Interface for distributor businesses.

I have a year of experience with Oracle Database as a Service. 

My impression of the stability of this solution is also very high.

My impression of the scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is very high.

I think that Oracle's technical support could improve. When they understand what the problem is, they are fast and solve it quickly, but it is difficult to get to that point with them. Sometimes communication is strained by the fact that we're always talking to different tech support specialists. Maybe the solution would be a sort of segmentation of their tech support team by departments. They do have some good people, but it takes some time to find them because you have to go through their call center. 

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.

For our clients, Microsoft is an alternative. Microsoft is cheaper, faster and has better support than Oracle.

• Resource elasticity
• Rapid provisioning
• Automated centralized management of all DBs
• Measured services, etc.

• Technically, apart from the cost reduction, it reduces the administration overheads.
• Scale-up and scale-down resources, as per the demand to ensure the major business, do not impact performance issues.

• Reduce the licensing cost further.
• Stronger security

Over one year now.

Challenges faced when migrating the on-premise database to cloud, especially VLDBs.

Mostly with the internet availability and speed. Nothing really with the stability of the DBaaS.

Not anything we have come across.

Satisfactory.

Satisfactory.

Most of the DEV/UAT/TEST were on-premises, which moved to the cloud with consolidation.

There were technical challenges configuring the connectivity, moving the data, etc.

Installation was through a vendor.

Reduced the number of traditional storage/server architecture. More productivity and quick provisioning of the database helped moving the application to production quickly.

Oracle licensing is expensive compared to other competitors, such as AWS and MS Azure.

Yes. AWS and MS Azure.

Any DEV/UAT/TEST environments are really candidates to go for cloud and ensure you fully utilize the flexibility of cloud technologies.

We can use the product for so many things. For example, we can use it for integrating with different services, and as a middleware, using it to access the Oracle forms. I've used it with things like Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or Enterprise Manager.

Since I work as a database administrator, I like the way Oracle has Oracle database information. So it's quite easy for me to rectify issues pertaining to Oracle Database. Oracle has managed to allocate tools that can be used to analyze the problems when they arise. 

They've done tremendous work in terms of analysis and diagnosis. It's quite easy to use the database, provided you have managed to install it according to your Oracle standard. 

The solution has been very stable over the years.

We've found the solution to be quite scalable.

If the solution is installed in your environment correctly, you are not going to have any issues whatsoever. It's problem-free.

We've been very happy with the solution. I can't recall any missing features. It works well once it is installed correctly. If you install it incorrectly in your environment, you may run into issues.

One of the things that I have noticed is that there are some services that will give you a hard time during implementation if you are looking at the documentation of Oracle. Sometimes the documentation information is quite limited. It's an aspect of the solution they could improve.

I've been using the solution for quite some time now. We've roughly been in production for more than five years now.

The solution is very, very stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's not buggy or glitchy. It's reliable and offers good performance.

The solution is highly scalable. I did try both Autonomous Database and Data Warehouse on the cloud. On the cloud, there isn't much. You need to work a lot on the data side where ever you want, how you want your data to be presented. Things like BI are going to present your data. 

We support a huge number of users. The number of users Oracle can handle is amazing.

Oracle technical support has always been very good. We have no complaints. They are helpful and responsive and we are satisfied with the level of support they provide to us.

If you have an Oracle Support Account, you shouldn't run into any issues at all.

There really isn't an installation process for the solution. It's on the cloud.

I don't directly deal with payments or licensing and therefore cannot directly speak to overall costs or licensing agreements. 

We're just a customer and end-user and we help clients that are also using Oracle.

We're using an older version of the solution.

As an IT company, we provide services to different companies. Right now we are working on a project which is running on an older version, 11G. It's a government institute. However, we support a huge number of users.

I always recommend Oracle for my clients, to those who are interested in engaging technologies. I always encourage others to also take certification courses. Oracle has had free courses for the cloud, and I really advise those interested in the solution to get in on one.

In general, I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten.

The stability and the format and the speed of the database are very good. 

Some of the technical features could be improved. They have a problem with some of the object types. I think this is one of the issues which is needed to be improved. If they could implement a managing tool that is better than the one they have now, that would be an improvement.

The solution is very stable.

Scalability is very easy. If you want to, you can have it scale onto two or three servers, racks, or whatever you want. It's easy.

Technical support is not bad. It's not like Microsoft support. With Microsoft support, you can search for answers online and you will find a lot of articles that help with problem-solving. With Oracle, if you open a ticket for technical assistance Oracle's very good and they will help you.

The initial setup is straightforward. Even if you're not technical, it's possible to set it up.

I didn't look at any other solutions.

I use some other databases, like Microsoft and MySQL, but they don't have the same performance as Oracle.

I would rate this solution eight out of ten.

Oracle Database as a Service for a web application used by our developer team.

The most valuable Oracle Database as a Service is security.

The initial setup could improve.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service for approximately one year.

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

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

The initial setup of Oracle Database as a Service is complex.

We have received a return on investment.

The price of Oracle Database as a Service is reasonable.

I would recommend this solution to others.

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

Easiness, that's number one for me because I use the cloud for testing purposes. When I present about database things because I do a lot of presentations and I like to test on the cloud. This cloud is everywhere so when I'm presenting here in US, I have the same cloud available that I have in Finland where I prepared my presentation. It's very easy and very convenient. I use Oracle Databases.

What is the best place for an Oracle database if it's not the Oracle Cloud? If I take any of the other clouds that wouldn't be the same. Of course the best is the Oracle's original cloud.

I think most of the customers are hoping for having 24/7 kind of support for if anything happens during the night, they will fix it without you knowing it. Of course there will be an extra cost for the customer but it shouldn't be too much. That's what I think most of the customers will be happy with. You don't have to have your own operators to look after your operation system and the databases and so on and Oracle would look after all that. They have those services but I think they're a bit expensive at the moment.

I think scalability is the top thing here because you are just able to scale up and down whenever you feel like it. You can't do it on premises.

Nobody is ever happy with support with any vendor so if I would say I would give them the score five, everybody would be laughing. There is no support that is 100% good. Usually it's been after it's been down or something like that. If I find a back or an error or something like that, I might need to contact somebody to fix it but I've had very good support by friends who work for Oracle. Not the official channels has been very efficient so all my problems have been solved.

Usually it's a long process so it starts when you realize that the hardware you have is going to be obsolete and you start your process there. You know one year from now I have to do something, I have to buy new hardware, I have to do something. That's usually where the process starts and then you start thinking should I buy a new hardware or should I go to the cloud.

It's the same as you're changing from one machine to another machine, it's just the same. You're just changing from one machine to a cloud. We did that for one of our customers and it was very, very easy and simple.

Reliability I will say that's the most important thing and what I learnt today from the keynote was that people are afraid about security and especially about the vendor security. I think that's something that you should really look at when you are choosing your vendor. How are they taking care of your security? Because you have all your valuable data in that cloud, you don't want anybody to go and mess with it.

Rating: I'm a Finn, I never give ten for anything. I would say seven or eight which is very good for me. There's a lot to improve yet but I think it's getting pretty good already. Let's say eight, I'm in a good mood today.

I would start with a test database. I would go with them to cloud first to get the experience because most of the people are afraid of the cloud. They don't know what to expect and how they juggle things and so on because they're used to see the computer, touch them and know exactly what is where and what kind of block you have in your computer and so on. So it's very scary to let somebody else take care of that things. The first step would probably be give your test databases to the cloud and see how it works and realize that actually now you have time for the real job instead of doing constant upgrades and so on. I would start with the test database to get experience and the touching feeling of how it is.

Many databases can be consolidated without any change to the application.

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.

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.

No stability issues.

No scalability issues.

Excellent.

The planning phase was bit complex regarding what to consolidate, but implementation was straightforward.

Check Oracle support.

I rate it a 10 out of 10, due to the scalability, flexibility, and cloud oriented approach.

Plan well and it should be fine.

We have found all of the features of this solution to be valuable to our organization.

The solution uses a large amount of CPU space, which could be improved. 

We would also like to see a reduction in the licensing costs for using this solution, as it is quite costly.

We have been working with this solution for two years.

We have found the solution to be stable during our time using it.

We believe the product to be scalable.

The initial setup was okay, it took around two hours to complete.

We implemented the solution using our in-house team.