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December 05, 2019
THE Database and RDBMS
The most robust, stable, and biggest RDBMS I have ever encountered. As the biggest member on the market, and one of the leaders in IT industry, Oracle database is still and probably will be the standard database that everybody would want to use. The enormous knowledge and science and effort and functionality that is put into this product is insane - but for a price.
- "THE" Database, period. No more robust, secure, and stable relational database exists.
- Support from a wide range of professionals all over the world. Their academies and documentation is well above the average.
- Absolute best reliability in the market: ACID was kinda invented by those guys.
- Thousands of supporting tools, technologies, etc.
- They moved into the cloud! and are now a quite strong competitor vs. Amazon Web Cloud.
- The licences around using the DB are quite pricey. But hey, for a high quality, you cannot expect a freeware software...
November 20, 2019
Immensely complicated
The Oracle database is currently used in several places throughout the institute. For starters, it works as our website's back end. We don't store any LOB objects, simply base data types. Similarly, we have developed a handful of custom applications that run on top of Oracle. Each application is a bit unique, but overall the underlying structure isn't too much different from the Website. Lastly, we use Oracle to store one of our largest data provider's information. Currently, this is in the realm of 2 billion rows spread across a small subset of tables.
- The database itself rarely goes down.
- Bringing up new Oracle instances is relatively painless.
- With the help of data pumps, moving data from place to place is a breeze.
- If you pay for their support, while they aren't the speediest, they are incredibly well informed and are an amazing help.
- Immensely complicated. Of all the databases we use, this one has by far the most moving parts.
- It is highly recommended to have a dedicated Oracle DBA on staff if you want your databases healthy. We have no such difficulty with Sybase, SQL Server or SAP IQ.
- While the Support Team is incredibly informative, they are often very slow to respond and are often unwilling to answer questions that don't directly solve the problem at hand.
October 17, 2019
Oracle Database for critical workloads that can scale
Oracle Database forms the primary database (with MySQL as secondary) that is used for the whole organization. It is used to store both internal data (accounts payable, employee records, etc) as well as used for customer data and analytics data sets.
- Oracle Database does security and compliance very well out of the box without the need for much configuration.
- It works very well across on-prem and cloud deployments where we want part of the database in-house (due to compliance reasons) while the rest can be in the public cloud.
- It is also very good in scaling to large datasets and performance numbers ( time to run a SQL query) are much better than DB2, Microsoft SQL Server etc.
- Pricing can be improved to make it much more competitive with other RDBMS options in the space
- Best practices documents and deployment scenarios for running Oracle Database on non-Oracle cloud platforms would be helpful (for example Oracle Database on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure).
- Certainly room for better integrated and automated SQL tuning.
September 18, 2019
The most resilient database right now!
The database is very robust and resilient. I like that Oracle is continuously developing and improving it's product.
I work mostly on the enterprise and a lot of HA features. RAC has come a long way from its initial release in 9i and has made my job easier when it comes to troubleshooting and fixing issues. ADG has also come a long way and has resolved a lot of our latency issues and performance issues.
I work mostly on the enterprise and a lot of HA features. RAC has come a long way from its initial release in 9i and has made my job easier when it comes to troubleshooting and fixing issues. ADG has also come a long way and has resolved a lot of our latency issues and performance issues.
- Active data guard is an awesome feature to have. It helps unload your workload for read-only stuff
- RMAN backup makes it easy to backup and restore your database
- RAC has helped us make our application available 24/7
- Log collection when troubleshooting
- Grid control is very heavy, we need a lighter version just for monitoring and alert triggering
- Tablespace fragmentation management tools should be provided
- One item in my wish list is that Oracle would make it easier to collect diagnostic files in one command whenever there's an issue. It takes a lot of time collecting TFA files and ADRCI is not enough
September 16, 2019
Oracle Database is Unparalleled
I support the decision-makers in deciding the database platform to use, both on-premise and within the cloud. The databases are usually operational ones (OLTP) for both custom and ERP applications. Some are enterprise data warehouses. All are to solve business decisions usually within a retail or financial vertical.
- Complex query - this is true for relational databases but more so for Oracle due to its robust implementation of ANSI-SQL and the relational paradigm for data management.
- The various options available within the database are second to none. No one has the same level of partitioning as Oracle does for example.
- Even though some other databases have similar capabilities no one can match Oracle RAC to any real degree.
- Oracle is slowly moving this was but allowing the database to consume more data repositories and query them all from a single interface would be a great enhancement. Oracle Big SQL has this but is a paid option that sits outside of the database and has access to a small number of repositories (HDFS for example).
- Make licensing more easily consumable and client-friendly. This is the biggest bone of contention that is pushing customers from what is a truly great product.
September 16, 2019
Oracle Database is the best
Our ERP is running on Oracle Database. We have 11 companies using the database, from the finance department, HR, and supply chain. We have issues with optimization and replicating due to slow links.
- OLTP transactions are so very fast. We have 5,000 concurrent users and results are shown so fast.
- Compatible with different application vendors and require less configuration. We are using SharePoint, Sales Online, and other applications.
- Data replication with ADG is very powerfull and requires less latency. Currently, we have real-time replication without much interference.
- Oracle should have a single implementation method for all platforms regardless of different operating systems.
- Migration tool for other databases should be quick, without a user interface.
- Data cleansing and data validation tools needed.
October 23, 2019
Oracle DB
Cornerstone utilizes Oracle DB at our organization as well as recommends to other organizations for purchase as well as manages existing Oracle DB installations. We provide managed services for organizations that have the Oracle DB. Additionally we upgrade older versions to the newer version of the DB.
- Growth capability- Will allow you to grow and upgrade from std to enterprise edition as needed for functionality
- Security options available
- Enterprise level product
- Can be pricing if run on commodity servers when you don't need full capacity because of licensing
- Std Edition has limited features and often needs to be upgraded to Enterprise edition
- Can be complicated to install properly
September 18, 2019
Oracle Database Review
Oracle Database is the principal database engine for the operations of my company because is a big enterprise, it is managing millions of records of information about final users. Great features combined like Real Application Clusters, Dataguard, and ASM are just a few of the great things that Oracle Database offers. In addition, we are an Oracle partner and deploy Oracle database in the infrastructure of external customers.
- Complex engine with powerful flexibility.
- Recoverable at the lowest level.
- Works worldwide.
- SQL plus rendition like in Windows environments.
September 18, 2019
Oracle and Visual Studio 2019... no developer tools yet!
Multiple departments use Oracle and different software use connections to multiple databases that are in Oracle. It allows connectivity with all applications and it's useful for all the reporting tools we have. We can keep all our customer data in one central location.
- Oracle allows you to connect to multiple reporting tools.
- Oracle has extensive patches and distributes them in a timely manner when they release them.
- They can handle multiple databases and hold tons of data history.
- It is very reliable and doesn't crash like other products.
- SQL Developer lacks functionality that would be useful, like displaying all records at once when you query
- SQL Developer crashes a lot and it is buggy. We would love to use it more but it is hard to use at times.
- They haven't or don't release Oracle Data tools for Visual Studio 2019. We are almost at the end of the year 2019 and still no data tools yet.
- Connection to .NET is kind of complicated and not very easy as compared to Microsoft SQL Server that allows you to connect easier.
- Oracle, in general, doesn't compare in terms of use with SQL Server. Data takes a little bit longer to get pulled when you create .Net applications.
- Connections have to be opened and closed or else you can end up with multiple connections open. As opposed to SQL Server where it opens the connection and it is closed immediately with very little code.
- Oracle doesn't provide many examples of how Oracle implements and interacts with .NET.
September 18, 2019
Oracle Rocks!!!
We are using Oracle Database for all of our critical applications for both OLTP and DW usage. It is used across the organization. It provides us a single platform to store all of our critical data and then extract it to use for analytics. It provides us an efficient OLTP database for managing high traffic processing applications
- Nice SGA management
- Easy to apply profiles on poorly performing SQLs
- One platform for both OLTP and analytics
- Auto SQL tuning
- Better LOB management
- XML Processing
September 18, 2019
My Oracle Database Review
We use Oracle Database in our department for storing critical data.
- Performance is good if we have the right technical resources.
- Good analytics functions.
- Easy to use.
- Built-in querying tools
- Make it easy to install/improvements in installing the database.
September 18, 2019
Oracle Database products
Oracle Database is used in many of our applications across the whole organization. It provided the backend database processes for many critical applications.
- Oracle Database provides stable environments.
- High availability, such as RAC, DG.
- Great monitor tool and integration with OEM.
- Patching process can be improved, such as the online process.
- Performance troubleshooting should be made easier.
September 17, 2019
Oracle Database Rocks
We use the database for many OLAP and OLTP applications. The database works really great. The error messages could be more informative, however.
- Very robust.
- Works great if initial set-up is done correctly.
- Error messages that are displayed can be improved.
- Need to improve performance tuning.
September 17, 2019
The Best Choice For Our Company
We used Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for our industry in retail and banking because we need the best performance and a high level of security.
- Scaling.
- Integration.
- Security.
- Commercial department.
- Bank opportunity.
- Unique client target.
September 17, 2019
Oracle Database Review
Oracle Database is being used by our accounting department as well as for our customer service solution and customer experience department. It helps with billing and service connect/disconnect for our city in terms of efficiency with other organizations.
- Oracle helps keep our customer information safe. It contains very strong security standards and good encryption of sensitive data for PCI compliance.
- It works well with other products like SSRS reporting tools and .Net applications.
- Another strength of Oracle is that we receive updates and great customer support if we have problems.
- Training is also a plus. Oracle offers many options and they are supported by many training facilities all over the US.
- I would like to see more compatibility with .Net, it doesn't quite compare with SQL Server but it is getting there. I would like to see more samples or support with applications the same way that SQL Server does. You can find tons of examples on the web but not as many Oracle examples.
- Oracle offers a free SQL Developer tool it is quite nice and simple, however, it is kind of buggy and doesn't offer some features that can be helpful.
- You should be able to have an option to go directly to the last record of a query. Instead you have to scroll down over and over until you reach the end of your last record. If your query retrieves 250,000 records you have to scroll for a long time. A button that sends you to the last record would be very useful.
- Also, SQL Developer should allow you to drag and drop your column header from the data results view. In case you want to re-write your query and use fewer columns and you have to type this column again. If the column is listed below on your results you should be able to drag and drop the column name to your query.
- SQL Developer should also be able to retrieve or create a DLL based on a function or a query. It is not very easy to do this.
January 13, 2020
Oracle databases in my day to day work
Oracle is the database that stores millions of transactional data generated by the different applications that support the core of the business (health services), ensuring that integration between them is possible. Additionally, it is used to generate and analyze information to respond to surveillance and control entities.
- Guarantees the reliability and availability of data when required
- Supports the processing of large blocks of information
- Licensing prices in additional packages
- Timely response by the support team when required
October 17, 2019
Why Oracle Database is right for you
I work for Intuit and here Oracle is used by almost all product teams across all verticles. At our team we primarily use it for recording various application configurations as well as for our data warehouse solution. So we effectively use oracle database products for OLTP and Data warehousing. This helps to make our applications modular as the state is captured constantly within the Oracle DB.
- The query execution and optimization engine are just great in Oracle. A simple "Explain Plan" statement will give a thorough analysis of the query execution plan.
- We store huge amount of data in our Oracle database, if we partition well and plan the loads correctly, the database is very fast and provides top performance.
- For us to represent a persona and its relations is more convenient using a graph database rather than a relational DB like Oracle.
- Oracle DB is a little more expensive than the other comparable products out there in the market. It will help if the licensing costs are reduced.
September 30, 2019
#1 Database on the market!
We have over 40 Applications running on Oracle Database. Oracle Database is used by the entire organization in dev, test, staging, training and production environments. I can't, unfortunately, go into details of the business problems it addresses.
- Oracle Database Security - #1 on market - Database Vault, Transparent-Data-Encryption (TDE), Audit Vault, Label Security, User Security, Fine Grain Auditing, SQL Injection, Network Encryption, Virtual Private Database (VPD), and etc.
- RMAN backup/restore.
- Oracle CPU patching - A nightmare to manually deploy it to every single database every quarter.
- In OEM, there are limited functionalities for SQL server.
- SID limited to 8 characters.
September 19, 2019
Oracle Database - They are expensive for a reason
Oracle database is the primary backend data storage software at the client. Multiple instances installed across the network support both custom-built applications and Oracle’s applications like OID and OBIEE.
- Redundancy and High Availability via grid setup has a proven track record in securing data availability across applications
- Speed of data access across the network is another critical point in which Oracle consistently outperformed others
- Support from Oracle is another reason for clients to keep Oracle databases
- Oracle databases have started coming in different flavors, from express to enterprise, but a consolidated management tool that can cater to an enterprise can be improved.
September 17, 2019
Oracle Database for the Public Sector
We use Oracle databases on a daily basis to manage USDA AMS and APHIS data for internal and public usages.
- Data management
- Data quality
- Data integration
- Performance
- New AI and ML features.
- More tools for data analytics.
- More integration with VMWare, Azure Clouds, and free performance tuning tools.
September 17, 2019
Oracle Database is the most secure
We currently use Oracle Database to store business data. Oracle Database is more secure and stable than Postgres or MySQL. It has good replication support, which I think makes it stand out from the other products.
- Relational Database Management System
- Great support
- Very stable and reliable solution as compared to other platforms
- From a security perspective, there are lost of patches that come at long intervals. Would like to see them released more frequently.
- Not happy with the current version, quite a few bugs
- Data security - with how the data is stored. This solution doesn't have a lots of encryption options. We have to pay for additional add ons and isn't as competitive with new technology.
September 16, 2019
Oracle Database, bringing it back.
Oracle Database supports critical OLTP and OLAP environment. The database performance and security is the key aspect of our organization, as we deal with customer data. Oracle perfectly matches the business challenge in this.
- Performance
- Security
- Stability
November 06, 2019
Looking for scalable and reliability? answer is Oracle!
It is being used as a customer user-managed database and we use many geo spatial capabilities such as spatial aggregation, intersection, spatial filters, buffering features etc.
- I really like the robust architecture it provides.
- It is a very detailed database and is much more scalable than other competitors.
- Documentation is great and very detailed.
- Sometimes it gets really complex at writing some large geo spatial queries.
- Spatial indexing could be easier.
- It requires some level of expertise to operate.
October 13, 2019
Oracle Database Review
Oracle Database is being used by all Oracle Utility Applications and is a single option for all data needs. The Oracle Exadata Hardware with Oracle Database helped with a lot of performance issues and dealing with terabytes of data.
- High performance.
- Robust.
- Excellent support for all kinds of integration.
- Documentation needs to be better.
- Compatibility.
- Costs.
October 04, 2019
Database Administrator Review of Oracle
Oracle Database is used as our OLTP databases. It is being used by a couple of departments at my company.
- Autonomous database
- Exadata
- RAC
- Big data
- Data Analytics
- ERP
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