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What is Oracle Database?

Oracle Database, currently in edition 23c, offers native support for property graph data structures and graph queries. If you're looking for flexibility to build graphs in conjunction with transactional data, JSON, Spatial, and other data types, we got you covered.…

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June 23, 2022
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[Our] Entire organizational data is placed in Oracle 12c. We, as an organization are extremely satisfied with the performance and the …
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10 out of 10
April 29, 2021
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Oracle 12c is used to support the shopping website of the organization, it's very robust, high performing and THE database is scalable to …
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What is Oracle Database?

Oracle Database, currently in edition 23c, offers native support for property graph data structures and graph queries. If you're looking for flexibility to build graphs in conjunction with transactional data, JSON, Spatial, and other data types, we got you covered. Developers can now easily build…

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What is Oracle Database?

Oracle Database, currently in edition 23c, offers native support for property graph data structures and graph queries. If you're looking for flexibility to build graphs in conjunction with transactional data, JSON, Spatial, and other data types, we got you covered. Developers can now easily build graph applications with SQL using existing SQL development tools and frameworks.

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Oracle Database, currently in edition 23c, offers native support for property graph data structures and graph queries. If you're looking for flexibility to build graphs in conjunction with transactional data, JSON, Spatial, and other data types, we got you covered. Developers can now easily build graph applications with SQL using existing SQL development tools and frameworks.

PostgreSQL and MariaDB Platform are common alternatives for Oracle Database.

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The most common users of Oracle Database are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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September 17, 2019

Oracle Database for the Public Sector

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Oracle databases on a daily basis to manage USDA AMS and APHIS data for internal and public usages.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database is a little bit more pricey, and as cost-effective. They should involve and provide more free support on Java and MySQL and other freeware that integrated with Oracle databases.
Return on Investment
  • ROI needs to be justified with longer years.
  • Performance is much better than SQL server.
  • More performance tuning features compared with its competitors.
Alternatives Considered
The USDA has a lot of data and requires an efficient database platform to manage it. Oracle was selected based on the performance and effectiveness of manipulating data across different platforms. Even though it is a little bit costly but it is still a desirable database platform for future development and data management due to increasing sizes of our data.
Other Software Used
November 01, 2017

Oracle Database, great software but it will cost you.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Oracle database is used as our main data storing facility. It is integral in all facets of our business.
Pros and Cons
  • Oracle queries are very fast as compared to some of the other relational databases I've worked with.
  • Oracle provides a very expressive and powerful programming language for functions, stored procedures, and packages.
  • The ability to group functions and procedures together into a package is also very convenient.
  • The biggest con is the price tag, even a small instance of Oracle Database can be very pricey.
  • Oracle provides query components outside of the ANSI standard which are great for fine tuning and optimization, but make it nearly impossible to port your Oracle instance over to another RDBMS.
  • Backups and Data migrations to another server are non trivial.
Likelihood to Recommend
In a scenario where large amounts of data need to be stored indefinitely and queried in a timely manner and the people/company involved have the funding to be able to purchase an Oracle database license without going bankrupt, I would recommend Oracle DB.
Return on Investment
  • The decision to use Oracle Database at our company has had a negative impact on our company in my opinion. The licensing is very expensive and the same result could be achieved with a more cost effective RDBMS.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle Database wins out over MySQL and PostgreSQL in terms of speed and feature set. Oracle supports a larger amount of the ANSI SQL standard and is in most cases noticeably faster in terms of querying.
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October 31, 2017

Oracle database works for our organizations needs

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our organization uses an Oracle database as the foundation of our ERP system. We use it for our financial, human resource, receivables and payable, as well our student record system, It is also the main structure for all of our analytical requirements.
Pros and Cons
  • It excels in our need for multi-user and multi-functional business transactions.
  • It handles large quantities of data easily and quickly
  • Oracle is very complex and requires skills staff in its use
  • It can be difficult at times to track down issues that occur, however there is a large community of users that are available to assist.
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle works well with large data application. If you have small database needs, it can be too pricey
Return on Investment
  • Oracle has a large positive impact on our business as it is a product that we can rely on.
Alternatives Considered
I find each different and valuable based on the needs at that time.
December 15, 2016

Oracle Database 12c continued improvements on an already great product!

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Technician in Information Technology
Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Oracle 12c is the underlying database platform that we use to run our educational institution ERP style software. In other words, standard business modules such as Human Resources, Finance and Payroll, as well as education specific modules like Student, Financial Aid etc. In addition, we use many third party "bolt-on" applications that tie into our ERP software, and almost all of them run in our Oracle 12c databases.
Pros and Cons
  • Oracle has gotten better with streamlining installation. Oracle Database 12c is much easier to install and configure than previous releases of Oracle software.
  • Oracle Database 12c is a robust platform for mission critical applications. We use the RAC (Real Application Clusters) edition of Oracle Database 12c. This allows us to spread workload across multiple servers and provides fault tolerance. If one node goes down, all systems remain operational.
  • Oracle Database 12c includes RMan backup. This has been improved so that it is easy to backup the database without down time and to recover should any failures occur.
  • Oracle Database 12c is able to handle large quantities of data with extremely good performance. My organization happens to be the largest user of the ERP software that we run, and it is able to handle tables with millions of rows.
  • One of the hardest things about dealing with Oracle Database 12c is the optimizer. They have made many improvements to it, but in 12c they came out with some initialization parameters that were not well documented. Some of these were set to default when we upgraded to the 12c release. Initially this made some software modules perform slower than they had before. It took us quite a bit of work to learn how to set everything so that we had better performance than we had in Oracle Database 11. We had to open several support calls with Oracle to get performance issues resolved. This could be improved if they added more documentation in this area.
  • Another issue in dealing with Oracle database 12c is cost. Educational institutions have more limited budgets and each additional licensed option costs additional money. Names of some options are changed and it is hard to determine what you need and how to purchase options in the most cost effective manner.
  • Oracle has a large international support network when companies have problems with their software. There are vast amounts of online resources in their knowledge base. However, it is often difficult to sort through the irrelevant articles or unanswered questions. It would be nice if they made it easier to find information limited to the version you are on, or only show questions that have been answered.
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database 12c is good for medium and large size companies, due to its ability to handle large amounts of data and transactions. It does cost more, however. It is good for companies of any size that need 24 hour mission critical uptime for their software applications. Smaller companies just starting out might be better off picking one of the many low-cost cloud based options to start with. Many of them make moving to Oracle easy when the time comes.
Return on Investment
  • Oracle Database 12c allows us to have a smaller IT department than many other organizations. There are tools associated with it such as Oracle Enterprise Manager that allow us to automate administrative tasks and alert us when there are problems which frees us up to do other more important tasks.
  • It has also allowed us to continue having good throughput of transactions. When registration opens for each new term, our systems are slammed with students logging on. In the past students would have to wait in line to get registered, sometimes waiting for hours. Improved performance with better releases of Oracle Database as well as streamlined hardware have eliminated this.
  • Oracle works with all of its customers, especially educational institutions to work out pricing so that you can get what you really need. Even though they are pricey, if you are willing to meet with them, they will work with you to help you determine which options are most suited to meeting your business goals. They aren't just trying to sell software at all costs.
Alternatives Considered
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 hours of the day and night. Therefore we must be operational 24x7. Oracle's RAC evironment is a true cluster system. Microsoft SQL Server clustering does not allow the same fault tolerance, always up environment that we need.

PostgreSQL is freeware. Because of that we do not feel like it is appropriate for large mission critical applications. There is no vendor to call for direct support, although some companies do sell support services. Patches, such as security fixes are not released on a regular basis.
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Users and Roles
Since Oracle Database 12c is the platform that our educational institution runs on, almost all of our Administrative, Faculty and Staff uses it. We have tens of thousands of students taking classes at any one time. Besides the students, we have users in departments such as Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, Financial Aid, Registration, Alumni, the Bursars office and many others.
Support Headcount Required
4
We have a Database Architect, two senior Oracle DBAs and one Database Administrator. We all have at least 7 years of experience supporting Oracle. Our most senior resources have more than 20 years of experience going back to Oracle Database 7. We have to be very detailed-oriented and very familiar with the Linux operating system. We have to be able to write scripts and PL/SQL.
Business Processes Supported
  • Registration is a critical process for a college. This is our benchmark use case for performance.
  • Processing of financial aid is highly regulated by the federal government. The ability to get updates on a timely basis as the laws change is critical. In addition the federal government can impose penalties on an institution if financial aid processing is not handled timely.
  • Processing of payroll is another critical area. We have all different types of employees so this is another area that is always highly tested.
Innovative Uses
  • We make use of add-on Oracle Database 12c products such as Oracle GoldenGate to mine data from our in-house database and turn it into a data warehouse. We are able to use this data to predict student success and have early intervention programs that reach out to at risk students.
Future Planned Uses
  • We have many different little applications that are housed in smaller departments. We are considering pulling all of that data into our data warehouse for more integrated reporting.
Likelihood to Renew
10
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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