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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    per hour

    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle's Corporate Performance Management suite was acquired from Hyperion in 2007. Hyperion customers are encouraged to migrate to Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM.N/A
    Pricing
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    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
    Contact Sales
    Personal Edition
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    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 Hyperion (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Database
    Oracle 12c is superior to SQL Server for large mission critical databases and applications. We also used DB2 in the past. We migrated many of our SAP applications from DB2 to Oracle 11.2 several years ago. These applications are now on Oracle 12c.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
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    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
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    Features
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of Oracle Database and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    8.3
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    -
    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
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Oracle Database and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Long-term financial planning00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Financial budgeting00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Scenario modeling00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Management reporting00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Oracle Database and Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Feature
    Oracle Database
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Hyperion (legacy)
    8.2
    20 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Personalized dashboards00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    KPIs00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data00 Ratings6.013 Ratings
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    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
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    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (199 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Oracle DatabaseOracle Hyperion (legacy)
    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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    Well suited: For use in multiple offices around the world. I was able to obtain financial reporting data from 5 foreign offices and then consolidate their data with 3 domestic USA offices to prepare a consolidated financial statement. Less Appropriate: Translating the financial value for consulting services could be a bit challenging because that required human interaction and judgement. It would have been great to be able to set up some software to be able to interpret this and let it run for all future project work revenue projection.
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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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    • This product handles budgeting by Employee and/or Position very well. It is highly flexible and allows Hyperion administrators the ability to develop a planning application that fits a variety of different business needs.
    • It is great at calculating benefits using business rules to automate the population of these fringe costs in the overall budget planning process. This greatly reduces user error.
    • It allows you to seed the operating budget based on changes to key drivers, such as percentage increases, flat dollar increases and more detailed changes using business rules.
    • Allows visibility into the plans for each unit across the organization, rolled up into an overall budget for the campus.
    • It handles the creation of budgets with multiple chartfield segments or dimensions, which most other budgeting systems cannot handle well. It can aggregate these very quickly.
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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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    • One pain point for us is the consolidation and translation process. Needing to translate the data over and over again is frustrating and there is no visibility into how many users are running a translation. If multiple users attempt to translate the same data set, say goodbye to your performance but you have no way of knowing! (Unless you want to pull up a task audit which is not a very realistic expectation). It has the been the quickest way for us to bring the system to it's knees. The consolidation process performs in direct correlation to the complexity of the calculation/consolidation rules. So, while the product is extremely flexible, you still have to be careful how you design your rules and calculations to make sure that you do it on the smallest subset of data as possible to avoid large processing times. This makes sense, but requires some significant expertise that most organizations do not have in-house.
    • The Hyperion Financial Reporting product is ridiculously outdated and clunky to use. The interface for designing reports is not intuitive, and not easy to modify once a report is built. I think there must be a strategic decision to move away from it and go to something more like Oracle BI because I just can't understand why in the world they don't update the reporting product. It also requires a significant level of expertise to be able to use. Not a great solution at all if you want multiple end-users to create reports in something other than Excel. Nobody except the HFM admin (which I used to be) in our company even touches this module.
    • Another pain point is the amount of IT support that is required to run this thing, and again, specialized knowledge of Hyperion products and how they work is required for IT to adequately support it. This goes for application servers and the Oracle database that the applications are running on.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    We're in the middle of the road because we are not sure that other products on the market fit the bill for what we need yet. Hyperion is expensive and burdensome from an administrator and maintenance standpoint, but it still seems to be the best solution for what we need. Show us an equally capable SaaS consolidation product and we'll talk again.
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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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    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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    The premium support team provides much needed dedicated customer service which we are after for what we have paid for this service. We are satisfied with the service and support and do not have any instance where there was an issue that requires escalation to get the right support team. Though the incidence of major issues that requires the premium support are less, we prefer to keep this as a safety net.
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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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    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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    Discontinued Products
    I use Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Mangement because the company I work at requires me to use it in the Financial Planning sector as most of their data is stored in it. I am open minded and ready to use other performance management tools created by Oracle if my work permits.
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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 Hyperion allows us to automate and consolidate financial data that used to be performed manually in spreadsheets. From that perspective the ROI is huge.
    • Oracle Hyperion functionality is extensive and allows us to perform most functions for planning, consolidating and reporting on our financial data.
    • One negative with Oracle Hyperion is that it is complicated to implement and maintain. It takes expertise at all levels (infrastructure and management) to realize the benefits from it.
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