Oracle Real Application Clusters vs. Percona XtraDB Cluster

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Percona XtraDB Cluster
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is a high availability, open-source, MySQL clustering solution that helps enterprises minimize unexpected downtime and data loss, reduce costs, and improve the performance and scalability of database environments. The vendor states PXC can support critical business applications in the most demanding public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) aims to preserve, secure, and protect data and revenue streams by providing…N/A
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—Free and open-source
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Percona
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Pros
Oracle
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Seamless failover
  • No impact on business during failover
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Percona
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Cons
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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Percona
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Alternatives Considered
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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Percona
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Return on Investment
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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Percona
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