Oracle Database Reviews

The most valuable features are it's accessibility and speed for retrieving data that I need, along with the ease of use. That's the most important thing: getting the data out. It’s logical, it makes sense, it’s intuitive.

I'm able to provide analytical data to end users easily, quickly, using a lot of built-in functionalities that the database provides. I don't have to export data to Excel and run a bunch of macros on it in order to get the average column or something like that. The built-ins that they have are helpful.

The biggest area for improvement for me is the error messaging. When it returns errors, it gives you a number; here's why I can't insert a character into a number field. One of the most annoying things for me is that it says, for example, "Value too large to insert column" but it doesn't tell you, "Okay you know what you're trying to do. Tell me what you're trying to do so that I can go fix it a lot easier".

So, more information in the error messaging would be nice.

I've been using Oracle database for more than 30 years.

I love it. I've been progressing with it ever since. It's nice, it does change a lot every year; there are new features. Oracle's always coming out with new stuff and so it's good; keeps you on your toes, keeps you going to OpenWorld.

It is always up. If the database is down, it's more likely something to do with the hardware.

It has scaled well to our needs. We have replication occurring at our office. We use Exadata, and we have clusters. It's replicated across production, dev and two QA instances, so it's nice.

I really don't have much knowledge about technical support because I never have to really do that. If something did go wrong with the database, that'd be more of a database administrator's function.

I was not involved in the initial setup. I'm more of an end user of the database.

I did not look at any other products before choosing Oracle's database.

It's well worth the investment. It might scare you up front because, yes, there are other, less-expensive options out there for your database, but if you plan on building an enterprise application, it's what you have to do. Spend the money.
I love it; it's the best.

Lately in 12c, they've actually come out with an adaptive optimizer, which I think is great strides in getting performance and doing the right things in the database and getting those queries back to the end users just as fast as they can without a DBA having to do anything about it. A lot of the times the optimizer can now adapt and actually learn from itself and store that information off, so it's kind of an interesting implementation that they've done.

Definitely the quality, enterprise-wide they have all the bells and whistles if you need a stable, secure environment, Oracle's the only way to go.

I think they're heading on to the track of automating some of the things that DBA's had to do, like again the adaptive optimizer. We don't have to worry about statistics all the time. That'll actually grow and learn itself.

Basically with the Real Application Clusters and Data Guard and all that, disaster recovery should be no problems with Oracle. I mean, if you have an outage getting across different data centers, all of that is pretty well baked in right now.

With the Real Application Clusters, Exadata, they've just answered a lot of that. They're coming up with in 12.2 with sharding, to be able to scale it across worldwide so very, very efficient that way.

Oracle's licensing is kind of a con. It's the expense of it depending on all of the features that you want. That would be the main consideration I think as a company when they're looking at different database vendors. Plus, just what I mentioned, the stability and the security aspects of it.

Evaluation criteria: stability, security, all of that. Be able to back it up. If there is a disaster, be able to easily recover it. Data is becoming increasingly important. With so much of it in the world right now that anything you lose, or can be hacked into can be very serious. It's definitely a vendor that's selling databases, it's something that we have to be concerned about.

Security should always be on database vendors minds because as soon as they plug one hole, somebody else is going to find another hole. Apple just lately trying to open that phone up for the terrorists that was kind of a major thing, and they hacked it. There is always people trying to get into different data sets so very important especially with your credit cards and everything else that are stored in databases needs to be continually looked after and improved upon.

Rating: I would say it's the leading [solution], a ten, of all the vendors that are out there and security, stability, scalability, all of that. 

I'm excited about the sharding feature that they're implementing and it seems like it's going to help huge companies that have data all over the world to make it more efficient, more perform better.

I think that the most valuable feature of Oracle Database is the knowledge base that's available. If there's a bug, I can find the solution in the knowledge base. If I need to know why something's happened, or whether there's a workaround, I can find the solution in the knowledge base. There's a wealth of information available there, and I live and die by it.

Our core business relies on its ability to work with RDBS. You could say that we make all our money by using Oracle. Since version 8i, it's been my bread and butter. I love the product and use it every day.

The features that are there, it usually works perfectly. The new features, you see that it takes some time to pick up and sometimes they break things they really shouldn't.

I've been using it since Oracle 8i, which was 18 years ago.

We've had no issues with deployment.

Oracle has added a new optimizer option to do some very fancy stuff, but it provides the wrong results. And at this stage in the life of the product, wrong results should never happen. That's why I have Database -- to get the correct results.

It scales very well. With NoSQL though, there are scalability issues because it just cannot spin up. But I've found that with Hadoop and AWS, you can spin up to 2,000 new nodes and it works fine. You can't do that with Oracle, but it's legacy software nowadays.

Technical support is fine. Fortunately, we don't have any priority-one issues within our business that depend on Oracle Database. For minute-to-minute operations, I get a good enough response from technical support.

As a vendor, we support older versions and the customer will never touch them. I really don't need to ask technical support for a fix, I know that the customers will not use it.

We haven't used a different RDBMS since I started with the company.

The initial setup was done before I started my current position.

The implementation was done before I started my current position.

We are using Oracle Database as a database management system.

I have been using Oracle Database for many years.

The solution is stable.

Oracle Database is highly scalable.

I have contacted the support from Oracle and they are sometimes slow.

The installation is straightforward.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Oracle Database a nine out of ten.

We use Oracle Database in our company for finding data.

Oracle Database required some time to learn the basics and how it works. However, this is typical for database solutions.

I have been using Oracle Database for approximately three years.

Oracle Database is stable.

Oracle Database is scalable to a limit. It depends on the use case and other factors.

The technical support is good, we have responses to our problems.

I have used SQL Server.

The deployment of the database takes approximately two hours.

We have used an integrator for more difficult implementations. However, we have implemented Oracle Database.

The price of Oracle Database is high and could be reduced.

We know that Oracle is a little bit expensive and there are other solutions that we can use to reduce costs. For example, there are some features in Oracle Database that we don't use and we probably do not need.

I rate Oracle Database a nine out of ten.

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 this solution based on the requirements of a client.

We primarily use it for a client that has a huge amount of data and has another application that also has lots of data. It's very good at handling jobs that have huge datasets.  

I'm not a regular user of the solution.

It's a great product overall.

The initial setup isn't too difficult.

The product does have a lot of features. However, I've barely explored them.

The main issue with Oracle is the maintenance required. They should work to make it less maintenance-heavy. This is especially true if you are using it on Linux. You need more experience and skills in order to maintain it on Linux in general.

We've had corruption occur if the power gets cut off. We had a bad experience with some cases. However, this might have been due to our own infrastructure issues that have since been dealt with.

We've used the solution for three or four years.

The solution isn't widely used by our company. I'm the only one testing it. The people in our company don't use Oracle at all.

I've never directly dealt with technical support. I cannot speak to how helpful or responsive they would be. Whenever I have a problem or issue, I google it and search for answers online. 

While I don't have much personal experience, my understanding is that the initial setup isn't too difficult. It's pretty simple and straightforward.

In our organization, we don't use Oracle, aside from in labs. We use Oracle in our labs just for testing and connectivity. We have versions of Oracle in our labs and other SQL devices.

We don't really use the solution too much in the company and therefore don't have a license. We test it for customers. I can't speak to the licensing process or costs. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's mostly been a positive experience, working with the product.

Between Oracle and SQL, I would recommend SQL to other users and companies. 

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.