Oracle Database Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.3 out of 10

Score

8.3 out of 10

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TrustRadius Insights for Oracle Database are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

High Security Level: Users consistently praise the high level of security in Oracle Database, ensuring robust protection against unauthorized access attempts and safeguarding sensitive data effectively with advanced encryption and authentication features.

Fast Performance with In-Memory Feature: Customers appreciate the rapid performance and enhanced query speed provided by Oracle's in-memory feature, optimizing operations for large and complex tables while improving overall system efficiency and responsiveness to user queries.

Reliable High Availability Setup: Reviewers highlight the durability and exceptional performance of Oracle's High Availability setup, emphasizing its reliability for maintaining seamless database operations even under intensive workloads, offering a solid foundation for critical business functions.

Reviews

198 Reviews

Most reliable database for your business needs

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 6, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Database for various applications, including ERP, application server backends, OLTP, data warehouses, and more. The Oracle database is highly reliable for performance, security and scalability. It provides advanced features like RAC and ASM, which make it useful for banking and high-transaction applications. Adding AI to it makes it very advanced in the AI era.

Pros

Highly scalable with the help of RAC cluster
No downtime and no data loss with dataguard and DR
Low maintenance with Oracle Autonomous Database

Cons

Licensing model of Oracle is complex
To manage it, highly skilled DBA are required
Using Oracle database with other cloud providers is not easy

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle provides zero downtime for upgrades, patching and other maintenance activities, which is a boon for mission critical applications. It is capable of handling massive OLTP transections making it suitable for banking applications. As it is best in security, its suitable for customers having GDPR, HIPAA requirements.

Along with the above advantages, its not suitable for small clients because of its licensing model and the complexity in managing the database.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Oracle Database for Enterprise Applications.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our requirement was to choose a transactional RDBMS database system that can provide best-in-class High Availability and Disaster recovery, and Zero Downtime for maintenance. Oracle provides a robust, most advanced database backup and recovery (RMAN) feature. Enterprise security features such as data encryption, fine-grained auditing, database vault, etc., were another factor in choosing the Oracle database.

Pros

Active-Active Clustering (Oracle RAC).
High Availability & Disaster Recovery.
Zero-Downtime Maintenance(Rolling upgrade, EBR).
Robust Backup and Recovery feature.
Performance and Concurrency Architecture.

Cons

Oracle database is very complex to use, not beginners friendly.
PDB backup and restore still not very efficient in non-cloud environments.
Oracle database RAC features are not available with major public cloud providers (Azure, AWS) without using Exadata.

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

11 years of experience

Oracle Database Review

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

February 26, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Database as the main data engine behind our SAP systems, the apps that integrate with SAP, and a handful of other business applications. It keeps our day‑to‑day operations running by handling the transactional data for things like finance, supply chain, and other core processes. Overall, Oracle Database sits at the center of several critical workflows and helps keep everything connected and stable across the organization.

Pros

Oracle Database handles large‑scale transactional workloads with speed and consistency, even under heavy SAP and integration traffic.
It provides strong reliability and recovery features that keep critical business systems running without data loss.
It scales smoothly as data volumes and application demands grow, without requiring major architectural changes.

Cons

Oracle Database has a very high learning curve, and the systems are quite complicated.
Oracle’s licensing is complex and difficult to navigate, especially when trying to optimize costs or understand feature entitlements. We were audited by Oracle and their team had to get clarification on several points internally because even the auditor did not completely understand it.
Patching and upgrading can be difficult and time consuming

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Database is good in enterprise environments with in-house expertise and lots of resources to manage and maintain it. It is particularly suited for very large databases where performance is critical. Oracle Database is also very expensive and does not make sense financially for many situations. For smaller databases, Microsoft SQL, Postgres or cloud native databases would be more suitable in most cases.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Oracle the most reliable Database solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 25, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Database is the most reliable database I have ever used because of its wide range of enterprise-grade features, including high scalability, robust security, high availability, and strong performance optimization. Oracle, along with Toad, is a very powerful combo in most companies that maintain an enterprise-grade data warehouse. I still remember, in my first company, the entire large-scale data engineering project was built on top of Oracle PL/SQL. I was the owner of database objects, which consist of more than half a million lines of code. I have written multiple functions for front-end customers to showcase the dashboard, hundreds of procedures, packages to process the OLTP dataset, and inbuilt jobs to load daily OLTP data into the OLAP database.

Pros

Secure the dataset from unauthorized users using virtual private database policy enforcement. Thousands of customers used to see their data only in customized dashboards, but the data was sourced from main tables. This helps us to reduce the maintenance burden.
Oracle provides concurrent reads using multiversion concurrency control. This helped us to reload incremental data while previous data was still read by users.
Oracle database triggers were so supportive during the OLTP reload process. It helped us to maintain referential integrity without the extra headache of reloading dependent tables again and again.
The latest Oracle optimizer is at its best level. Companies that have the compliance issue to go to the cloud always prefer to use the Oracle database for its scalability and performance optimization. The default optimizer is working so well that it outperforms other on-premises databases.

Cons

Most of the architecture team find it difficult to suggest the Oracle is TCO. Oracle is more costly than peers. So mostly only large and medium organizations can afford this.
Badly written queries can increase costs, as they will use excessive system resources. To avoid this, always use the Oracle-recommended method. like CTE, use of partitions, etc.
Some of our architects always said there is a vendor lock-in with Oracle. Migration from Oracle to other platforms is costly. Postgres is champion here.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle is not suited for small enterprise solutions where Postgres can be option. Sometimes oracle db_links failed if not maintained correctly.

Deepjyoti Bhowmick

Senior Data Engineer in Information Technology at Accenture (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Oracle Review from cybersecurity engineer.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use several Oracle versions installed on different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. We use Oracle DBMS in our cybersecurity product to alert customers to any vulnerabilities or patch requirements in their databases. Our cybersecurity product helps customers address new CVEs on the DBMS by raising an alert to the customers, usually DB Administrators, so that they can secure the Oracle DBMS against live attacks and apply patches to keep their Database secure.

Pros

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).

Cons

RAC and Data guard are complex and difficult to configure.
Manual configuration of Data Guard is difficult, whereas the Active Guard is really smooth.
Performance tuning in some aspect needs a good understanding of wait events and the SQL optimizer.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle DBMS is well-suited for high-availability, high-load transaction scenarios. If the use case involves a complex environment with different OS setups, it is well-suited to cross-platform compatibility and support. In a modern DevOps serverless environment, Oracle does not play well with others. Also, installing the full version of Oracle in the Developer environment does not go well, as it drains a lot of resources.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

A good database that unfortunately isn't suited for us.

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Database to store our CRM and ERP data for various customers. We have, however, encountered different issues during setup and while connecting to the DB via our applications, including several connection and timeout errors while executing queries. We never faced the same errors using competitors' DBs.

Pros

Triggers
Functions
Session manager.

Cons

Connection issues.
Configuration parameters.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have many related tables with several million records, and despite having indexes, we frequently face issues while connecting to the DB and extracting data. We tried using a MySQL DB for the same purpose, and it worked straight away.

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Database Rolls Royce

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 19, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Oracle databases for wide variety of use cases . Used them for transactional workloads for some of the biggest workloads , for storing customised application data in clinical research , in analytical workloads in clinical field , as a repository for security related alerts , I have used it in for one of largest fuel company for handling transactional and analytical workload .

Pros

Performance
Highly scalable using RAC
Supports wide variety of formats and languages
Good back and recovery options
Variety variety of OS support

Cons

Patching and maintenance needs DBA experts
Setup and patching is time consuming
Higher cost wise

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a stable , well proven , highly tested and trusted with very good track record Oracle is the best RDBMS you can go for . It’s known for its highly scalable , exceptional locking mechanism that allows horizontal scaling with minimal. impact to customer experience . You can scale up and down based and customer needs . It provides very good security options , very stable and multiple back and recovery options right from table level

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Best Relational Database- Oracle Database

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 6, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used this Database for storing and retrieving the data for a web application. As it is a relational database management system and data is stored in the form of tables. We usually retrieve the data using the SQL queries. The oracle database helps me to easily retrieve the complex data. By implementing permission and altering user activities, we can simply prohibit unauthorized access and provide separate access to users.

Pros

Easily retrieve complex data using SQL queries
Provides high level of security from unauthorized access.
Data can be easily recoverable it it is deleted by mistake
Installing in windows machine is easy

Cons

Price is one of the reason, as its licensing cost is expensive. Rest is good

Likelihood to Recommend

According to me, Oracle database can be used by multiple applications. So in my case I have used for two applications- EMR and cognitive search, which makes my life easier.

I can say it is less appropriate in some cases when it required high maintenance. Also its licensing cost is too expensive.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Oracle Database: The Best in Business & Totally Worth

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a service support company and I am a certified Database Admin. We have different customers using Oracle databases and we maintain those databases. We do maintenance, monitoring, upgrade, and even migration of databases.

Pros

In memory feature - very fast. Earlier queries used to run in fetching data used to take time now it is very fast. We can even select which table should be used in the memory feature. So complex and big tables are utilized properly.
Restore and Point of Time Recovery - In my entire career of 10 years, Oracle Database has been the most consistent and reliable database. The RMAN backup concept is the best example. If any disaster happens in another database, there is a chance of loss of data or getting corrupted but Oracle is best.

Cons

Oracle Database restoration and recovery is complex. RMAN backup recovery has quite a lot of steps and is complex. In other databases, it is very much simplified.
Oracle user extend validity - this is tricky as users are assigned to profiles and if you want to extend the validity of a particular user, it becomes difficult. That is where it can be improved.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited for Linux as Linux machines are generally not rebooted for years. We have seen other databases with memory leak issues or Windows system resource utilization becomes high and we need to regularly reboot machines whereas in Linux, Linux doesn't have those issues. With the Oracle Database combination, we have seen some critical production servers that do not need to get rebooted for years and still work well without any issues, which is amazing.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Oracle Database - Harnessing the Power of Data

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 3, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Oracle Database is being used in the compnay as SOR database for many business products. I am an active user or it in Banking and Mortgage Businesses.

Pros

The Native PL/SQL Language is very simple to learn and use. Stored Procedures created are easy to maintain as well.
Data Recovery Setup is very effective and easy to use

Cons

Database Administrative tasks impact the DB performance
No support for Unstructured Data

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Database is best suited for multi-tenant architecture where more than one database is being used simultaneously...its very well supported in such scenarios.

Not recommended for cases where Un-Structured data is the main source of the business.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Oracle the most reliable Database solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 25, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Secure the dataset from unauthorized users using virtual private database policy enforcement. Thousands of customers used to see their data only in customized dashboards, but the data was sourced from main tables. This helps us to reduce the maintenance burden.
Oracle provides concurrent reads using multiversion concurrency control. This helped us to reload incremental data while previous data was still read by users.
Oracle database triggers were so supportive during the OLTP reload process. It helped us to maintain referential integrity without the extra headache of reloading dependent tables again and again.
The latest Oracle optimizer is at its best level. Companies that have the compliance issue to go to the cloud always prefer to use the Oracle database for its scalability and performance optimization. The default optimizer is working so well that it outperforms other on-premises databases.

Cons

Most of the architecture team find it difficult to suggest the Oracle is TCO. Oracle is more costly than peers. So mostly only large and medium organizations can afford this.
Badly written queries can increase costs, as they will use excessive system resources. To avoid this, always use the Oracle-recommended method. like CTE, use of partitions, etc.
Some of our architects always said there is a vendor lock-in with Oracle. Migration from Oracle to other platforms is costly. Postgres is champion here.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle is not suited for small enterprise solutions where Postgres can be option. Sometimes oracle db_links failed if not maintained correctly.

Deepjyoti Bhowmick

Senior Data Engineer in Information Technology at Accenture (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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