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NetApp MetroCluster vs. Oracle Real Application Clusters

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NetApp MetroCluster
Score 6.3 out of 10
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NetApp MetroCluster software is a solution that combines array-based clustering with synchronous replication to deliver continuous availability and zero data loss at the lowest cost. The vendor states administration of the array-based cluster is simpler because the dependencies and complexity normally associated with hostbased clustering are eliminated. MetroCluster immediately duplicates mission-critical data on a transaction-by-transaction basis, providing uninterrupted access to applications…N/A
Oracle Real Application Clusters
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allow customers to run a single Oracle Database across multiple servers in order to maximize availability and enable horizontal scalability, while accessing shared storage. User sessions connecting to Oracle RAC instances can failover and safely replay changes during outages, without any changes to end user applications, hiding the impact of the outages from end users.N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Testimonials
NetApp MetroClusterOracle Real Application Clusters
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NetApp
NetApp MetroCluster is suited for applications which require 100% uptime with no data loss. It is suitable for organizations who have the need to move their NAS services and workloads to another data center with minimal downtime and configuration. Due to the cost of the product, it is not well suited for NAS file shares that require greater than zero RPO and RTO's. NetApp asynchronous is better suited for this type of data.
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Oracle
Currently, as per RAC configuration, one node RAC or multinode RAC configuration is there. Customers who don't have licenses to run RAC simultaneously in multiple servers at the same time can opt for one node RAC configuration while they can still have the flavour of failover.
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Pros
NetApp
  • Data deduplication, compression, and compaction provide great savings compared to traditional host based storage
  • Multiprotocol support (NAS and SAN) provide great flexibility
  • Ability to easily run your workloads from either data center with minimal effort and no disruption was the key selling point
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Oracle
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Seamless failover
  • No impact on business during failover
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Cons
NetApp
  • I would like to see more highly intelligent monitoring that can help determine where latency is coming from. Eg. Host, Array, Network or Fabric issues
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Oracle
  • Oracle Real Application Clusters is totally dependant on DBA's . It would be great if it can be simplified somehow
  • Its license cost
  • Enabling usage in standard edition
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Alternatives Considered
NetApp
Have not used or evaluated any other NAS synchronous products.
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Oracle
Choosing Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server Cluster was actually a business requirement. As the nature of business demanded Oracle RDBMS. As a clustering solution, RAC comes into the picture easily, so it was not a hard choice to choose Oracle Real Application Clusters over SQL Server.
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Return on Investment
NetApp
  • By moving critical application data away from older based technology such as host based mirroring and to a centralized array based replication, the complexity of managing data from multiple source and destination servers has been removed.
  • The number of incidents compared to our previous legacy configuration is huge. Data uptime has been 100% available since the migration to NetApp MetroCluster.
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Oracle
  • Outage on application downtime has greatly reduced
  • Customers confirmed, performance wise, it has been better after deployment of Oracle Real Application Clusters
  • Shared storage
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