IBM IMS vs. Oracle Database Cloud Service

We have built a database of a network of bank branches with all the needs of security and recovery/restart. It requires knowledge of obsolete maintenance languages and perhaps it is too rigid in the schemes.

Incentivized

• Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
• Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
• Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
• Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
• Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.

Incentivized

• Security
• Reliability
• Big volume of data and good performance

Incentivized

• Eliminates the requirement of hardware and installation.
• Minimizes the cost of operation and maintenance.
• Scalable to meet the increase in requirements.
• Enhances integrity, connectivity and performance of our applications.
• Reliable in terms of data security.
• Improved speed of querying and searching.

Incentivized

• Certainly, not being a DB relational penalizes its use
• It should be more flexible
• Open up to more recent languages

Incentivized

• When we restart the DBaaS instance, it seems like we had to add the NIC network back again. I'm not sure if it's specific to our instance configuration!

Incentivized

Essentially, for a question of reliability and scalability, the performance has always been of an enterprise level. The utilities are efficient and effective.

Incentivized

I would prefer the oracle database as service where my complete implementation is on Oracle Cloud Platform and as BI Implementation where datawarehouse is built on oracle database.

Incentivized

• The investment made about 20 years ago that has been fully repaid
• Reliability and security of investments
• Unfortunately, it is quite outdated and therefore maintenance costs are higher because the skills are not always available.

Incentivized

• Billing on Hosted Environment per hour, OCPU per hour, block volumes, object storage, etc.
• Costing & maintenance, patching.
• Security & TDE cycles.
• Backups & recovery.
• The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features, like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc. which make the solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well.
• Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and high ROI.

Incentivized