Oracle Database Reviews

• Performance
• Durability
• Security

For a long time I've been working as a performance tuner for Oracle and Java. The tuning of the performance is very important for me.

I want the price to be lowered.

Oracle solutions are the most used, so we don't need to do verification of the product on our own. We can assume that the product's reliability is high enough. Based on Oracle products we are able to run our own developed applications at very high performance levels.

What we do is that based on a certain understanding about the product speck, based on the maximum transaction we can assume for our businesses, we are going to decide the sizing and then we confirm the capability and we decide the threshold. Then after that we do the scale up. Based on the recent cloud environment, I cannot really say that it's easier for us to do the scale up.

The people who used to work in Oracle are responsible for the tentative troubleshooting at the 1st stage. Then if we need more further investigation, then we exchange the technical support contract. Based on that agreement they will provide us with support. Once we purchase the product from the Oracle, then they offer the knowledge. The structure of the knowledge is quite well-shaped.

For colleagues who are in the financial business and are looking into what kind of product they want to use for their databases - I would recommend using the Oracle Database because in terms of the security and in terms of the audit process it's top notch. When it comes to audits, as long as we say we are using Oracle Database, then they give us a certain assurance. They're confident about it.

Especially with Oracle, you have the high availability features. That specifically is very interesting to customers. When it comes to DR, I don't use high availability. Nonetheless, according to different strategies, it also provides features such as recovery, not the same as production, in different formats. That's a good feature about Oracle.

I provide disaster recovery services; they should look at how to recover production systems during disaster recovery. They are not focusing on that. They don't do that.

I’m in this industry doing recoveries. I don’t see an feature to easily recover all of the databases, especially RAC systems. That’s where they could come up with some kind of snapshots or technology that would make recovery easy.

The stability is completely amazing. It's been the industry standard for many years, so it is very stable.

As far as scalability, we can go from two nodes to I don't know, maybe 256 nodes. We can scale out, scale up and so on.

Technical support used to be not that great, but they are changing. They used to follow the Sun model. They are changing; it's better now.

They have developed automated systems. You don’t do anything. Basically, you turn it on and it brings up all of your stuff. It's easy to use.

When they look at databases, I don't think people look at any other vendors. You have only Microsoft and IBM DB2, but they are not that good. No one goes with them now.

I think when it comes to the product, the mindset is switching. Oracle is like a legacy RDBMS. People are switching to open systems. We have all of the new SQL databases, with no license costs. Especially if you also look at cloud solutions, that's where I think you need to have NoSQL or the latest technologies. That’s where they need to focus.

I'm not an end user of Oracle. We don't run any products on it. We have thousands of customers, and they come to us for disaster recovery. That's our business. We use all of the database solutions. In a previous life, I was an Oracle DBA, and I know what it can be used for. It can store large amounts of data. You can do all sorts of RDBMS data features and it’s the industry standard; there is no other database that can compare to Oracle.

When I’m choosing a vendor such as Oracle, I look at the licensing; other costs; and the help from technical support and even from sales. Sales people say yes to everything, except when it comes to implementation. It shouldn’t be that way.

The main features that I take into account when I talk about databases of any kind are high availability, reliability and manageability. Oracle RDBMS has all that.

The high availability and reliability with Oracle RAC, Oracle Dataguard and Oracle Flashback, the manageability with several views and packages like Advanced Workload Repository(AWR), Active Session History(ASR), SQL Tuning Advisor, SQL Plan Control, and many others to monitoring and troubleshooting issues and bottlenecks, are valuable features.

With Oracle RAC, we can reach near to the dreamed 99.999% of availability in a year. Oracle Enterprise manager allows us to see the "big picture" and take proactive actions to maintaining the environment.

Oracle RDBMS has great features, but I believe that Oracle could be more flexible with the offering of some extra options, and include them in the main license. Today, a High Availability or MAA environment with an Oracle database is already expensive, plus with those extra options, it could increase the cost much more.

Oracle RDBMS has a lot of features and is extremely stable, but all this come with a price, and in this case a big one. So, I would advise you to use Oracle RDBMS mainly for medium and large enterprises. For small enterprises, I advise using other RDBMs, like SQLServer or PostgreSQL.

The most valuable features for us in our experience has definitely been the security and reliability it brings to our environment. We know that our data is safe and secure and that Database is incredibly stable. There's a peace of mind that it affords us.

Because it's secure and reliable, we can have confidence that we can just go on with business as usual. We're able to focus our efforts on more important aspects of our business instead of worrying about threat protection and lost data.

I've been very happy with the progression of the product. One thing I would like to see is a better feature set for pluggable databases, that is, the multi-tenancy of the database. It's still in its infancy at the moment and I'd like to see in 13c a big leap forward with better support for multi-tenancy.

I've been working with Oracle databases for over 16 years.

We haven't had any issues with deployment.

Database has always been solid. There's been a couple little buggy things at the beginning, because I was working with version 7, but from 8i onwards, everything was solid.

There's absolutely no problem scaling it. They give you plenty of options and a lot of best practice in order to be able to do that.

I've always been very happy with Oracle support. I think probably the one thing that I'd like to be able to have is more input into is the feature set for the next release.

As we're already Oracle customers, we're upgrading from version 11g to 12c. The most valuable component of the new version 12c is the additional processing power it provides.

For what we primarily do, we do heavy processing of OLTP and OLAP. We've used DB for some additional success in that regard.

The middleware, particularly Oracle Fusion, is what concerns us most and what we think needs the most improving.

We've had no issues with deploying it.

There have been various stability issues so far, but the main concern, again, is the middleware. We're looking for some improvements in those areas.

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

We use technical support all the time. Whenever we run into any issues, we open up Oracle SRs. We get responses and we integrate them into our system, and we generally close out the issues successfully.

I've been involved in all of our major upgrades and it's never straightforward. There are always complications because of the complexity of it all.

You probably need to consider some onsite support as much as possible because I'm not sure if the SR process is the best way to go. You probably need some expertise right there onsite that's familiar with your specific firm or agency. It's always difficult if you're just doing SRs.

There's a large set of commands in PL/SQL so you can read things in and read things out much more easily than you can do in SQL.

Oracle Database, particularly PL/SQL, is a staple product for getting information out and putting information in. You can take those tools and put them in another environment. It's easy to use and makes the decision to move to another version a no-brainer.

There were issues that arose from a recent upgrade. These issues, however, were quickly resolved before we moved onto a subsequent upgrade.

I've been using the PL/SQL extension for Oracle Database since the early 90's.

We had those issues from the upgrades, but, again, they were resolved before we moved to the next upgrade.

There are some enhancements that have been made to the database, especially PL/SQL. It changes as the product changes. It's not that difficult to find out what those changes are and keep up in order to maintain stability.

There are commands that you can include in your SQL to make sure you've got enough workspace to do what you need to do.

I've used it for so long that I haven't needed to contact them. I haven't run into an issues where I haven't been able to get data out from or put data into the database. I am, however, still learning some feature of PL/SQL, for which I'm using Oracle's Ask Tom a lot. I've found that this Oracle support site is very helpful for reviewing documentation to figure out what I'm missing from my own knowledge.

The initial setup wasn't too complex, although there were the modifications with upgrades that caused some issues. Again, these issues were resolved prior to our next upgrade.

The system does what you tell it to do; it doesn't necessarily do what you want it to do. You have to really ground yourself in education before you are safe working with the tools. The tools are very powerful, but at the same time, there are rules behind what it does and you have to know what they are.

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.

I use Oracle Database for the server from Microsoft.

Big companies and millions of smaller businesses need Oracle Database because it's secure. The implementation of services is good for data security in Oracle. Implementing higher availability is also good. Whenever one side goes down, the other side will be up. I like using Oracle Database in Oracle x86 Servers. It's more comfortable to use Oracle Database in this situation.

It would be better if they had a license management service.

Oracle Database is very stable.

The initial setup is easy.

I would tell potential users that they need to use Oracle Database if they need security. It's great and the best. You can also use various software in our database.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle Database a ten.