Oracle Database Reviews

This is used as the main core for our financial service and is running on an Exadata server.

Oracle enables us to handle more than a million daily transactions.

The most valuable features are the Oracle Data Guard and Transportable Tablespaces. These features are useful when you need data protection and in case you need to move data around quickly.

The price tag is very high and most cannot afford it.

I have been using Oracle for ten years.

Container Databases (CDBs) help reduce server sprawl and manage resources in a much better way. It's a feature that consolidates all your application data with Oracle database metadata, still keeping a strict role to manage each of them respectively. With the CDBs, it's become easy to deploy, clone and administer Oracle databases.

Application Continuity simply helps application to be highly available by doing a lot fewer application code changes.

It helped consolidate most of our database servers, and saved annual maintenance costs of up to 23% on physical servers.

Oracle could provide a few extra features as part of the standard offering in their main license.

I have used it for a few years.

It depends on the kind of database solution you are applying, but I have not yet encountered any stability issues.

10/10 MOS Support is actually something you can heavily rely on.

Technical support is 9/10, very proactive and very helpful.

Use licensing with caution, read the fine print. :) ?This is an important point and usually it's not skipped by the companies paying for the license. Nonetheless, Oracle supports your applications and database only if Oracle has certified the ?hardware and software that the companies have used to build and deploy their applications and databases on; which basically means that you have to use industry-standard hardware and software.

It is possible that your hardware is not supported or has been desupported for a specific version of the Oracle product, so just remember to read the fine print before you deploy your applications.

MS SQL Server was also under consideration, but we had more Oracle DBA's to work with and Oracle’s training requirements were also more favorable.

For both versions:

• Oracle data miner: automation of created and tested several models
• Warehouse builder: the best data modeling implementation tools for multi-dimensional schema, spatial data, robust ETL implementation
• Fusion middleware: information systems integration and process management
• Data integrator: bulk movement; good connectivity to the other databases, even hierarchical databases; simplicity in ETL implementation
• WebLogic: JDeveloper bundling as a new feature
• BI publisher: showing the best images of data and resources with quality reports, managing the reports, robust report designer
• Application development framework: rapid training and development, excellent deployment, simplicity, map integration

The product has improved organizations by developing BI applications for banks such as a banking data warehouse, fraud detection, incident detection, ad-hoc BI reports shown on maps with drill-down features, data quality process and ETL.

We are hoping they make improvements in the following areas

• Data mining
• Big data analytics

Because we need to find economic models and buying behavior by improving the data mining process and integration with structured and unstructured data for accurate analysis and effective decision-making.

I regularly encounter stability issues.

I regularly encounter scalability issues.

I rate technical support 9/10.

Our first solution was Microsoft’s solution. We switched to Oracle because of data volume, switch to big data in the future, security and other features.

Initial setup was complex. There was a limitation regarding access to the product, because of sanctions on Iran.

We also evaluated Pentaho, Talend, and Microsoft’s solution.

Make your best estimate regarding project size and data volume. Fully understand all of the products available.

The most popular use case is minimizing the latency of online transactions.

In the future, they should change their licensing policy. Right now, it's quite difficult because you have to pay for cores, number of cores, and it depends— if you use some servers, it's one price, if you use another server like IBM, it's another price and it's complicated. Their licensing model could be improved.

I've been using it for over ten years.

The stability is fine for the time being, but it could be more stable.

The scalability is fine.  I can't complain.

Support is fine. I don't remember having any complaints.  It's quite good.

Initial setup is straightforward. One or two of our engineers handled it and it took about 15 to 30 minutes.  One person would even be enough.

The Oracle licensing model is quite difficult. You have to pay for everything.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.  

You should definitely take time for planning and always keep the backup of your data.  Planning is important, you should have a plan for everything.

I made personal use of the solution for my projects. Customers use it as a database to store and retrieve information. 

The solution could have better security and integration. 

We have been using Oracle Database for a couple of months.

The solution is scalable.

I have never contacted tech support. 

We did not use another solution prior to Oracle Database, although we do use MySQL. 

The solution is easy to install, although I don't recall how long this took. 

There are no licensing costs because the solution for me is open source. 

The solution is cloud-based. 

I would recommend it to others. 

I rate Oracle Database as an eight out of ten. 

We use Oracle Database for our core banking system. Including end users, there are approximately 8,000 customers and employees using this solution within our organization. 

For maintenance, we require a team of roughly 20-25 developers, including a fiscal analyst and a project management lead. 

We're a bank. Our customers trust us with their money. Oracle database is a leading technology that allows us to manage our systems.

It's very reliable.

I have been using Oracle Database for roughly 10 years. 

Oracle Database is stable.

The technical support is okay.

Although I wasn't present for the initial setup, I believe it doesn't take much time. 

An integrator helped us with the initial setup.

The licenses could definitely be cheaper. We pay on a yearly basis. 

I would definitely recommend this solution to others. Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle Database a rating of eight. 

We are a system integrator and Oracle Database is one of the products that we implement for our clients. We have good knowledge when it comes to Oracle integrations.

There are many use cases but it is most often used for specific software development projects, such as portals. We have some enterprise portals, for example, and it is also useful for self-service applications such as payments or other requests.

It is often used for information systems.

The most valuable feature is that it is a complete product with all of the functionality that you need, and there is no need for any special features.

We have been working with Oracle Database for a couple of years.

We have approximately 10 customers who are using Oracele.

Technical support is perfect.

The installation is quite straightforward. As long as you follow the proper process, there is no problem with it. Typically, it takes three or four hours to deploy.

For security aspects, our customers prefer an on-premises deployment over a cloud-based one.

We have two database administrators who are responsible for maintenance. One is a senior-level engineer and the other is a junior.

Our customers sometimes complain about the price of the license, as it is very high for them.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is used for multiple applications. The solution can hold a lot of applications.

It's been one of the best databases for us. We really enjoy its capabilities.

The product is very easy to use. Users have no problem navigating it and using it.

The solution is extremely stable. It's pretty much issue-free so far.

You can expand it easily. It's scalable.

The initial setup is very straightforward. The deployment is easy.

It's a good default database. Many Windows applications also work on Oracle.

Technical support is very helpful and responsive.

The pricing of the product could be better. It's too expensive right now. They need to bring down the cost.

It would be ideal with the product could introduce more security features. It would make the solution that much better.

We've been using the solution for a few years now. We have a good amount of experience at this point.

The solution offers excellent stability. Its performance is very reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very good. It's basically been issue-free.

The solution is very scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so with relative ease.

We have about ten users on the solution currently.

We've reached out to technical support in the past. They've been very helpful and knowledgeable. We've contacted them very rarely, however, when we have reached out they have been responsive. We're very satisfied with their level of service. They are quite good.

The initial setup is not complex or difficult. It's very straightforward and easy to implement. A company shouldn't have too many issues with the process. 

We have a team of two that are able to handle the deployment and maintenance aspects. You don't need a lot of people to watch over it. 

If the solution was less expensive, they would get man more clients. The pricing can be an issue for many.

We always use the on-premises deployment model. We never use cloud-based deployment models. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten overall. We are quite happy with the capabilities. It's a very, very good database.