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DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Oracle VM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.N/A
Oracle VM
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for the entire computing environment.N/A
Pricing
DigitalOcean DropletsOracle VM
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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DigitalOcean DropletsOracle VM
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DigitalOcean Droplets

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Oracle VM
Verified User
Consultant
Chose Oracle VM
DigitalOcean has no development free tier, so for startups is not as convenient. DigitalOcean DNS system is way easier to use than Oracle's. DigitalOcean firewall is also easier to use and implement. On the other hand, DigitalOcean pricing is more expensive for big VMs (like …
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Features
DigitalOcean DropletsOracle VM
Server Virtualization
Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
DigitalOcean Droplets
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Ratings
Oracle VM
7.2
6 Ratings
15% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings5.76 Ratings
Management console00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings5.65 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.44 Ratings
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User Ratings
DigitalOcean DropletsOracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
(7 ratings)
7.8
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
DigitalOcean DropletsOracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Droplets are the best choice for developers teams that need reliable Linux servers to deploy their projects, the ability to create a droplet for testing purposes then destroy it, and only get charged for the few hours used makes the chances of messing up very slim. DigitalOcean Droplets is a great solution because the servers are scalable and the process of adding more resources like CPU or RAM to an existing droplet takes only a few minutes and once a server is scaled up it can also be scaled down if necessary which is perfect for supporting a temporary peak in traffic for example.
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Laila Abouizza
Backend Developer
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Oracle
Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
DigitalOcean
  • Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use
  • Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation
  • Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more
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Anonymous
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Oracle
  • Installation and setup of VM Server are pretty straight forward.
  • Many different guest operating systems are supported.
  • There can be up to 128 virtual machines per physical server.
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Anonymous
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Cons
DigitalOcean
  • In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations.
  • No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage.
  • Number of service is quite limited.
Anuj Rai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anuj Rai
Senior Associate Technology
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Oracle
  • Not as flexible as VMware.
  • Could have slightly better templates for provisioning database nodes.
  • In terms of performance it lags a bit behind Red Hat's KVM solution.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean Droplets has a nonprofit program that helps nonprofit sites to run their infrastructure, which is tremendous and no competitor of DigitalOcean Droplets does that.
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Anonymous
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Oracle
The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit.
Gledson Rodrigues | TrustRadius Reviewer
Gledson Rodrigues
Analista de Rede 2
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Return on Investment
DigitalOcean
  • Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud
  • Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors
  • The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible
Tom Blazek | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tom Blazek
IT Manager
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Oracle
  • Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction.
  • We've experienced a lot of outages.
Verified User
Anonymous
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