Oracle Database Reviews

We store our data in a database. We have a lot of data. We load it in our database everyday, then use it for reports.

This is the main database that we have.

Stores a lot of data in a short time.

• Integration with big data would be helpful since we are planning to load a lot of big data.
• A lot of features have bugs or choose the wrong way to process data. Sometimes, we struggle with that.

It is very stable.

For our needs, scalability is okay.

We have a DBA who does our support.

I would recommend the product.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

• The product should be good.
• Features
• Its stability.

• High availability 
• Performance 

Those are the topmost.

Because we're servicing end clients, I need to have the SLA. The performance is the key point for us. When a customer logs in to the website, it needs to be within a few seconds, SLA. So that's how it's helping us, improved performance and, ultimately, gaining customer satisfaction. 

Right now, the version that have is just one version lower than what's available. I'm looking forward to upgrading to that version, especially the container-based database. That's what I'm looking forward to.

There is always room to improve. New stuff coming in.

It is a very stable product, especially the RAC, node clusters, so if one goes down it's very seamless. You have other nodes backing it up.

It's easy to scale. You can add more memory, more storage. If you need to scale horizontally, you can add one more node. It's a pretty scalable product.

We use it when we have issues. It's pretty good. They have a very good support model. You create a service request and, depending on the priority, they call you back. It's pretty good support.

No, we've been using this one. It's a robust product, very solid; better features. That's why we chose it.

It was complex. It was all set up but it is very complex. Day in, day out, it's very complex work.

The most important criteria for us when selecting a vendor are the support model and their willingness to work with us.

I would definitely encourage checking out this solution. Work with Oracle and you'll find out whether you can use it. They're pretty good at coming to your site and giving demos and all that kind of stuff.

The most valuable feature is the high concurrency in terms of transactions. The second most valuable feature is that from a diagnostic performance standpoint, I can tell exactly what is going on. It is really good at helping to solve problems.

The organizational improvements go back to the high concurrency. There are a lot of database products out there, but it is difficult to have a lot of simultaneous actions from a business perspective in the database. They have to happen very fast, and Oracle just shines at that.

I would like Oracle to instrument the CPU consumption of Oracle sessions. Right now I can tell how much CPU Oracle consumes, but I have no idea what it's doing when it's consuming the CPU. I can infer that, but I don't have the authority that I would like to when I speak about it.

We have been using the product since 1989.

It’s a software product, so there are some bugs. When I have issues, they tend to be from an unusual or intense workload that is stressing the system.

It rocks. You can tweak Oracle so it will use up all available computing resources. That's powerful. That way, you can use your investment and your capacity.

You always have to be careful about stability when applying patches. A patch could fix one thing but hurt something else, so you really have to be conscientious and do your homework first.

You need to get a good overall understanding before you drill down. There is too much to learn, so get a basic fundamental understanding and then let the problems guide you in learning more.

We use the Oracle Database for our CRM and transportation management.

The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud and API features.

Their support and price could both be improved.

In future releases I would like to see it more administrable on cloud.

I have been using Oracle Database for 14 years.

It is a stable product.

Oracle Database is scalable.

We have 200 people using it for now with plans to increase usage.

We have two people on it for maintenance.

I would rate their technical support at eight or nine out of ten.

The setup was not very easy.

It took two months.

We have a monthly license.

I do recommend Oracle Database to anyone considering it.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give it a nine.

We have numerous clients using Oracle Database, and they can choose the size of the solution they require. We have around 500 technical staff in our office to assist our clients when they need assistance. We support our customers for both hardware and software. We provide support for any particular Oracle resource they're using.

Oracle offers good security and supports customization. 

Oracle is a costly product, and it requires a lot of resources.

We have been using Oracle Database for about eight years.

Oracle is a stable product.

Oracle technical support is useful, and we rely on them often.

Oracle is a large implementation, especially in Oracle Enterprise Edition. Oracle provide good support for implementations, however.

Oracle is an expensive product.

Some of our customers ask us to provide a list of features for different products, which we provide, along with a cost analysis, if they wish to look at alternatives, but these can vary. Customers make their own decisions based on the information we provide.

I would rate Oracle 8 out of 10.

We are third-party administrators and we use Oracle Database as our main Database.

What I like most is the real application security. I have been working with it recently.

The initial setup can be simplified.

I have been working with this solution since the beginning, for more than 20 years.

Stability is not a problem. It's more stable than other solutions.

It's a scalable solution. We haven't encountered any problems. We use partitioning and sharding.

Technical support is not a problem. We receive all of the technical support that we need.

The initial setup is complex. 

The installation of Oracle products is not usually as straightforward as dealing with Microsoft products for example.

It's expensive. I would say that it is more expensive than other competing products.

I recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Oracle Database a seven out of ten.

The most valuable feature is the database core in general, of course.

A good DB favors a good solution and also a stable one, so less manpower is spent on buggy maintenance.

Let us say that Enterprise Manager (Web admin) is an area with room for improvement. I have seen it stop working many times. They say it is improved in Enterprise Manager 13 (released with DB 12c R2).

I have used it since 1999.

It is almost always a perfect install; some small issues here and there; mostly few small pre-configs to be done right before install.

So far, I have never encountered any stability issues.

We have not seen any scalability issues so far.

I have not given it a perfect rating because of customer service. It has decreased a little bit in the last decade: more time spent (TAR average) on support than before, and more posts (and time) spent to reach a definitive answer.

Technical support is very good; refer to my answer regarding customer service.

We did not previously use a different solution. We have used it until now. We won't switch until Oracle does. :-)

An in-house team has implemented it every time.

"We're not rich enough to buy cheap things." - English proverb.

Sure, I have worked with other DBs: MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc. are good examples.

I think that Oracle today is the most powerful relational database, especially for PCI compliance, high availability, and high performance. Those are the Oracle database features I most appreciate.

I am waiting for Oracle to provide an interface between NoSQL and the Oracle database, so I don't have to go deeply into NoSQL. I just need to have an interface between them; to use SQL language to check that NoSQL or Hadoop is not down, and so-on.

We have been using it for more than 15 years.

The most important down time you can have for developers is when we upgrade from one version to another.

Otherwise, we have not had any stability issues, especially with 10g or 11g.

It's a very, very strong database.

It is scalable, especially with RAC. We can add more had more processors on the machine and through Oracle, I can use only part of the CPU on the server, so I don't have to pay too much.

Technical support is good, very good. It's a little bit expensive, but very efficient.

Initial setup is not difficult. For me, it's very easy, because I have a lot of experience on it.

The important thing with Oracle is that everywhere you go on Google, you see a million people have experienced the same problem. You always have something when you have an issue.

You should buy this solution. That's what I'm saying, in my company, a very big company. Every time someone asks, that’s what I say, because I'm involved with Oracle a lot. That's normal.