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    Oracle Database

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AOracle Database, currently in edition 23ai, is a converged, multimodel database management system. It is designed to simplify development for AI, microservices, graph, document, spatial, and relational applications.

    $0.05

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    Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOracle’s Enterprise Manager is an on-premises monitoring and management tool. The console is designed primarily to manage other Oracle products, it but can integrate to manage non-Oracle components as well.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Oracle Base Database Service - Standard
    $0.0538
    per hour
    Oracle Base Database Service - Enterprise
    $0.1075
    per hour
    Oracle Base Database Service - High Performance
    $0.2218
    per hour
    Standard Edition
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    Enterprise Edition
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    Personal Edition
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle12c database is Oracle's flagship product and has been there for a long time. Over the years - Oracle Improved a lot both design and feature wise. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle backup appliance, …
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    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle Database is best in business, consistent, and robust. Even the standard version is sufficient for the best performance. The main thing is I have never seen corruption and in my opinion, it is best when used with Linux.
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    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle is serving a different segment with respect to those above. Till now, we have stuck with Oracle and continued to support our internal customers. Other DBs are serving a few targeted applications by a few application teams.
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    Chose Oracle Database
    Good performance and additional features.
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    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle 12c has a lot of features, so it can be implemented for organisation projects. It supports many applications.
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    Chose Oracle Database
    Even if is quite expensive, Oracle Database 12c is way better than most of its competitors thanks to Oracle experience and skills on database technologies. Oracle Database has always guaranteed the best data recovery and fault management policies, thanks to Oracle's RAC …
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    Chose Oracle Database
    While there are several very good relational databases, some are offered by companies where the database is not the key focus. Even though Oracle's software portfolio has expanded greatly over the years, they remain keenly focused on database technology.
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    Chose Oracle Database
    I personally have also supported both Microsoft SQL Server and PostgresSQL.

    We have used Microsoft SQL Server for some smaller projects where the vendor only supports that environment. But whenever there is a choice, we use Oracle Database 12c. Students access our systems at all …
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Enterprise Manager
    Kibana from Elastic is another monitoring tool that claims to provide very similar information to OEM.
    It seems to be an information tool rather than a tool that can actually make changes within a database.
    I think Kibana is more robust for hardware versus database software so it …
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    Chose Oracle Enterprise Manager
    I'm not aware of any OEM alternatives. At least, nothing with the kind of features you find in OEM, and nothing that is free.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Manager
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Oracle Enterprise Manager
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment6.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (199 ratings)
    7.1
    (26 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Enterprise Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    We migrated from NoSQL to an Oracle database. One of the reasons was robust backup and recovery options available in the Oracle database, which provide zero data loss. A transactional database like Oracle is a better fit for our use case than NoSQL. On a large scale, deployment was evaluated as a cheaper option than the NoSQL engine. This conclusion came even after considering Oracle license is expensive.
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    Oracle
    OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details. OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Supports most of the Operating Systems like Unix, Linux and Windows Server.
    • It works well in high load environment under intense parallel transactions setup.
    • Highly reliable DBMS, especially RAC is very much reliable.
    • Well managed and predictable release of security patches.
    • We have highly scaled it from on-prem to a cloud cluster environment for our product.
    • One of the best-performing DBMSs on Linux machines under test delivers high throughput (QPS).
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    Oracle
    • Monitoring Templates: There are out of box monitoring templates for each target types, you can customize them or use them as it is.
    • Administrative Groups: This is a relatively new feature in OEM Cloud Control. This lets you create and manage your targets and monitoring templates smarter and with less re-work.
    • DB Monitoring: There are so many cool DB monitoring features and visual graphics, that it can be used by both DBA and functional people to see what's going on in the database.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • The memory demand and management makes it impossible to run it in a container.
    • It is hard to perform local unit testing with Oracle even using the personal edition (aggressive all the available memory grab for itself).
    • Lack of built in database migrations (e.g. as Flyway).
    • The need to install the Oracle client in addition to its drivers.
    • The cost of running it, especially in the Cloud.
    • Comes with very spartan community grade client/management tools whereas the commercial offerings tend to demand a premium price.
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    Oracle
    • Bugs. Every version we upgrade to has a number of bugs. Some stop us from rolling to production OEM (we have a sandbox OEM), some are simply annoying. If I could improve on one thing, it would be for better QA from oracle before releasing each version.
    • Flash. I'm told that they are moving from Flash to Jet in version 13.3 and beyond (we are on 13.2 currently). That change cannot come soon enough. The OEM pages load SO slowly due to Flash.
    • Hierarchy Groups. OEM allows five Hierarchy groups. A Hierarchy group allows a top down metric/rule roll out. However, they limit you to five. I'd like to see them open that up, so that we can have any number of custom groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    There is a lot of sunk cost in a product like Oracle 12c. It is doing a great job, it would not provide us much benefit to switch to another product even if it did the same thing due to the work involved in making such a switch. It would not be cost effective.
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    Oracle
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    Usability
    Oracle
    Many of the powerful options can be auto-configured but there are still many things to take into account at the moment of installing and configuring an Oracle Database, compared with SQL Server or other databases. At the same time, that extra complexity allows for detailed configuration and guarantees performance, scalability, availability and security.
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    Oracle
    It's great! It does everything and anything you would want it to do. It can monitor things which doesn't comes out of the box by adding plug ins to it, for example, you can even monitor Oracle GoldenGate Replication by adding a plug-in to OEM Cloud Control.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    1. I have very good experience with Oracle Database support team. Oracle support team has pool of talented Oracle Analyst resources in different regions. To name a few regions - EMEA, Asia, USA(EST, MST, PST), Australia. Their support staffs are very supportive, well trained, and customer focused. Whenever I open Oracle Sev1 SR(service request), I always get prompt update on my case timely. 2. Oracle has zoom call and chat session option linked to Oracle SR. Whenever you are in Oracle portal - you can chat with the Oracle Analyst who is working on your case. You can request for Oracle zoom call thru which you can share the your problem server screen in no time. This is very nice as it saves lot of time and energy in case you have to follow up with oracle support for your case. 3.Oracle has excellent knowledge base in which all the customer databases critical problems and their solutions are well documented. It is very easy to follow without consulting to support team at first.
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    Oracle
    I still rate OEM as a must-have tool for central management of Oracle fleet. The pros and cons of the product is prominent. Meanwhile, I also acknowledge that OEM was design about a decade ago. At that time, it did not have the landscape we have today, such as cloud, DEVOPS, machine learning, etc. I hope in future releases, the design will incorporate those features.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Overall the implementation went very well and after that everything came out as expected - in terms of performance and scalability. People should always install and upgrade a stable version for production with the latest patch set updates, test properly as much as possible, and should have a backup plan if anything unexpected happens
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    Oracle
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    Because of a rich user base and support for any critical issue, this is one of the best options to choose. In case the project has a TCO issue, it can compromise and choose Postgres as the best alternative. SQL server is also good and easy to code and maintain but performance is not as good as the Oracle
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    Oracle
    Being an Oracle shop using Oracle Database and MySQL, management console from Oracle was a better choice than IBM or Microsoft even though we do use Microsoft Azure and storage/servers from IBM (on-prem).
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
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    Oracle
    I work with OEM SCP team. They are great.
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Multiple applications can use the same database and still get high performance
    • Licensing cost is still a concern compared to the other options available in the market that are very very inexpensive
    • Almost a maintenance free database
    • Oracle Grid makes life easy in terms of monitoring and managing the databases
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    Oracle
    • We are a 7x24 shop. Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control helps us meet that objective by proactively warning us before issues cause down time. Things like disk space, archive log issues or temporary table space issues.
    • Spreading the use of this tool outside of the DBA group has allowed us to not hire additional personnel for those teams. Over time, as folks have retired from our operations team, we are not replacing them. Instead we have used OEM Cloud Control to automate tasks.
    • We also now have the tools to measure up-time by using specific measurements inside of OEM. This allows us to report real numbers to management.
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