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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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Best Relational Database- Oracle Database

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 6, 2024
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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....
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Team Lead
Oracle Database5 years of experience

Oracle Database: The Best in Business & Totally Worth

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 3, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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, mo...
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Consultant
Oracle Database8 years of experience

Oracle Database - Harnessing the Power of Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 3, 2024
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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.
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Analyst
Oracle Database9 years of experience

Money Well Spent!

Rating: 10 out of 10
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 exceptional features Oracle provides.
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Engineer
Oracle Database14 years of experience

Non-stop traffic with Oracle Database

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 3, 2021
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We use Oracle 12c databases to store information from many of the critical modules of our MLFF (Multi Lane Free Flow) tolling solutions. Oracle Database 12c can handle variabl...
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Lisandro Fernigrini
Team Lead - Information Technology
Master Software Developer (Database Architect)
Neoris
Oracle Database3 years of experience

Oracle Database is still King of databases (minus the licensing cost ;-) )

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 23, 2021
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Oracle [Database] is used by [a] couple of departments to maintain Animation assets and for couple of applications in the Animation movie making workflow.
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Administrator
Oracle Database15 years of experience

Stable but Expensive and Tough to Use Enterprise Database Platform

Rating: 3 out of 10
June 17, 2021
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Oracle Database is our organization's primary database server. Our main line of business application uses it exclusively to store data making it mandatory across the organizat...
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Engineer
Oracle Database15 years of experience

Why and why not to use Oracle12c Database?

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 1, 2021
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We do support our client's Oracle12c databases hosted in two data centers - One in Plano, Texas and One in Cherokee, Oklahoma. We support approx 400 plus DB instances running ...
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Sarju Patel
Employee - Information Technology
Sr Oracle DBA
DXC Technology
Oracle Database4 years of experience

Review

Rating: 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 the needs of increasing traffic on th...
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Administrator
Oracle Database4 years of experience

Oracle Database a tool that can sotre

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 13, 2021
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Oracle Database software has been used by our organization form past few years, mainly it is used by our Information Technology department for backup of data and recovery. Th...
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Employee
Oracle Database1 year of experience

My Succinct Oracle Database Satisfaction Recap

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 8, 2021
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The Oracle Database or rather a cluster of Oracle Databases is used for both an OLTP and data warehousing data storage and processing purposes across various departments. Orac...
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Arthur Zubarev
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Data Platform Consultant
Parsons Corporation
Oracle Database5 years of experience

My review of Oracle Database

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 2, 2021
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A lot of our applications are using Oracle Database as their data store.
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Manager
Oracle Database8 years of experience

Oracle Database 12c for for your business needs

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 17, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use across the organization. We are just now making use of the new features in 12c.
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Administrator
Oracle Database6 years of experience

Oracle Database for critical workloads that can scale

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 28, 2020
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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, employe...
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Aditya Mohan
Analyst - Information Technology
Manager
Skive it
Oracle Database8 years of experience

Excellent experience using Oracle products over the past 18+ years.

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 18, 2020
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We use Oracle Database for storing relational data for our OLTP/warehouse DBs. We also use it as a high availability solution (Data Guard). It is being used enterprise-wide. I...
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Administrator
Oracle Database19 years of experience
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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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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.

High Licensing Cost: Reviewers have mentioned that the licensing cost of the software is expensive, impacting its price competitiveness. This can pose a significant barrier for businesses looking to adopt Oracle Database.

Complex Oracle Database Restoration: Some users have highlighted the complexity of Oracle Database restoration and recovery, particularly with RMAN backup recovery. This complexity can lead to challenges in efficiently managing and recovering data in critical situations.

Outdated User Interface: Users criticized Oracle's user interface and user experience for being outdated and not user-friendly. The lack of modern design elements may result in decreased efficiency and frustration for users interacting with the system.

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Best Relational Database- Oracle Database

Rating: 9 out of 10
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January 06, 2024
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Verified User
Oracle Database
5 years of experience
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.

Oracle Database: The Best in Business & Totally Worth

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 03, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
8 years of experience
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.

Oracle Database - Harnessing the Power of Data

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 03, 2024
Verified User
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Verified User
Oracle Database
9 years of experience
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.

Money Well Spent!

Rating: 10 out of 10
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June 23, 2022
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Verified User
Oracle Database
14 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
For any Java/JEE related application,s it’s extremely convenient with available JDBC drivers and exceptionally quick response time. If the data is huge, probably picking a big data solution would be more appropriate from a performance perspective.

Non-stop traffic with Oracle Database

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 03, 2021
LF
Lisandro Fernigrini
Master Software Developer (Database Architect)
Neoris (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
3 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
I believe that Oracle Database can be used almost on any scenario, starting with small department solutions to actually any enterprise level system. It includes many features that allow a single database to work as an OLTP and Data Warehouse at the same time, reducing hardware requirements and the need to implement ETL or integration solutions between OLTP and DW.

Oracle Database is still King of databases (minus the licensing cost ;-) )

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 23, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
15 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
I believe Oracle Database is still the best RDBMS database which is the database to consider for OLTP applications and for Adhoc requests. They are good in Datawarehousing in certain aspects but not the best. Oracle is also a great database for scaling up with their Clusterware solution which also makes the database highly available with services moving to the live instance without much trouble.

Stable but Expensive and Tough to Use Enterprise Database Platform

Rating: 3 out of 10
Incentivized
June 17, 2021
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Verified User
Oracle Database
15 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle provides a scalable and stable enterprise relational database platform. Oracle understands stability, assuming you provide capable and stable hardware Oracle will stay running. But it's too complex to manage and Oracle's licensing terms make virtualization either complex or expensive. Unless your application requires it, find another database platform.

Why and why not to use Oracle12c Database?

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
May 01, 2021
SP
Sarju Patel
Sr Oracle DBA
DXC Technology (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
4 years of experience
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Scenarios where Oracle12c DB is well suited:

1. Oracle12c DB with ODA(Oracle Database Appliance) is well suited for small to medium OLTP shops, where you don't have much DB workload. Oracle12c with ODA provides DB high availability, High redundancy, and good DB performance.

2. Oracle12c DB in EXADATA with IORM implementation is well suited for mixed DB environment. Mix DB environment is the one in which some databases are development DB, some are Test DB, Some are QA DB, Some are OLTP, and Some are Data Warehouse DB.

3. Oracle12c is well suited for Banking, Financial, Retail, and Aviation Industry.

Scenarios where Oracle12c DB is less appropriate:

1. Oracle12c is less appropriate for small shops like Restaurant business, Hotel/Motel Business, Burger Shop and Coffee House.

2. Oracle12c is less appropriate for Research and Scientific work, Data Analysis, Big data Analytics. The data computational speed is not so good in Oracle world.

3. Oracle12c is less appropriate for Data Messaging industry.

Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 29, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
4 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
With multi-tenant architecture managing multiple databases under one roof has become easier. Cloning and patching has also become easier with 12c. On the other hand performance management post-upgrade has been an issue, choosing optimizer parameter to 12.1.0.2 post upgrade has become even tougher as plans kept changing and implementing SPM took up more memory. Looking for a better way to manage performance post-upgrade in future from Oracle.

Also running datapatch post-patching on a busy DB server is a nightmare as sometimes it would never complete and also unplugging and plugging DBs across clusters with different patch sets is a pain too.

Oracle Database a tool that can sotre

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 13, 2021
Verified User
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Verified User
Oracle Database
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database is one of the best database storage and management software according to me as it has a huge storage capacity. Other than that the reason behind its good performance is that it supports PL/SQL which helps user to write complex quarries. Last but not least it allows us to backup data and we can easily recover the data anytime.

My Succinct Oracle Database Satisfaction Recap

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 08, 2021
AZ
Arthur Zubarev
Senior Data Platform Consultant
Parsons Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
5 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
I would say that if the business generates considerable revenue and must rely on a world-class feature-rich database engine, not in the Cloud, to do more than simple OLTP then Oracle Database is a go-to offering. The other factor is that Oracle talent is likely available in abundance. Having one backed by Oracle is a long-term advantageous strategy.

My review of Oracle Database

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
April 02, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
8 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database should be a good fit for any applications who need a database, especially eCommerce use cases. There might be better choices for lightweight applications or applications with very large data sets.

Oracle Database for critical workloads that can scale

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 28, 2020
AM
Aditya Mohan
Manager
Skive it (Airlines/Aviation, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
8 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database is suited for for scenarios where the database is large and there is a need for reliability, security and availability at scale. The pricing reflects this. It won't be well suited and will be expensive for mostly dev and test environments or where reliability is not a factor or issue.

Excellent experience using Oracle products over the past 18+ years.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 18, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
19 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
It is highly performant and guarantees data consistency based on ACID compliance. Oracle Active Data Guard allows us to open the standby database for read operations. With Oracle 19c , Oracle also allows to do DML redirection on standby DB which can help with some reports that need temporary tables.
Using XML/non-structured data is not easy and I have noticed performance issues when the XML becomes deeply nested.

Oracle databases in my day to day work

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 13, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
4 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
The Oracle database is suitable for storing large volumes of information; I have demonstrated its strength in writing data. Enabling and acquiring additional package licenses is very powerful guaranteeing the security and traceability of the information. The Oracle database is less appropriate for processing large volumes of data distributed across multiple instances.

Oracle did not live up to our expectations

Rating: 2 out of 10
Incentivized
December 14, 2019
Verified User
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Verified User
Oracle Database
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a small to medium-sized business, you shouldn't consider Oracle at all. You need highly-skilled and highly paid sharp developers and DBA's to manage the beast. And there are much better alternatives for you - from MySQL to SQL Server - SO much easier to use. Things that would take me 5 minutes to do in SQL Server would take hours or days in Oracle. Even our paid consultants would have trouble making the software do what it was supposed to do. And there isn't nearly as much helpful info on the web for Oracle as there is for SQL Server. I'd always thought well of SQL Server prior to using Oracle, but now I am even more appreciative of its ease of use. If you are with a large enterprise, it could be an option if it does something that no other RDBMS does and you really need that. But such cases I'd bet are few and far between. Other databases, like MS SQL, can run large workloads with good performance. Do you really need to buy the most difficult to use the software?

THE Database and RDBMS

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 05, 2019
BK
Balázs Kiss
Software Developer
Webvalto Ltd. (Banking, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
3 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
Although this database is massive, it's the best selection for quite a lot of things. From the automatic query optimization to the physical table lookup, every single aspect is a product of years of innovation. Most of the tools/techniques used today in other DBs were first was implemented in this. Oracle Database can fulfill nearly every database requirement a small, a typical, or a giga-company needs. With the right professionals, this tool can run countries!

Oracle Database 12c Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 27, 2019
Verified User
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Verified User
Oracle Database
1 year of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Database 12c is a good, stable choice for large amounts of data. However, the license is expensive, and you need an Oracle Database expert on your team.

Solid and reliable ACID complaint transactional database by oracle!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
November 25, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Database 12c is a solid, relational ACID compliant database that can be used even for the heaviest workloads to store data in a way that ensures integrity and reliability. It's less appropriate in situations where you have nonrelational data and could use a document based database as storage method. Oracle is still primarily relational data storage.

Oracle 12c feedback in ERMX

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 20, 2019
EZ
Eduin Zuloaga
IT Architecture Manager
Edenred México (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
9 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
We primarily use Oracle in our organization, except for a few applications which use other databases like SQL Server, Redis and MongoDB. Primarily, Oracle Database 12c is used to manage data for various applications all across the organization by multiple applications like Ticket Car, DataMart, ERP for invoicing and master catalog, and for Watts processor by Edenred Brasil.

Immensely complicated

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
November 20, 2019
ZG
Zhann Goloborodko
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Investment Company Institute (Think Tanks, 51-200 employees)
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Verified User
Oracle Database
15 years of experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
While Oracle is more or less a bulletproof database server, if you don't have an Oracle DBA on staff you are in for a lot of trouble. We use Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, and SAP IQ. Of the 4, Oracle is the most painful to troubleshoot when things get weird. Now, if you do have Oracle DBA's on staff, Oracle is a perfectly good database solution, but I can't say that it is in any way better than Sybase and I would say it is a touch less reliable that SQL Server.

Oracle Database review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
November 05, 2019
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle has been the top choice and the best relational database solution in the market for years..for companies that can afford to pay for it. Every Oracle component is very expensive, so it is not as well suited for a small company which cannot afford to have a large budget for it.

Solid database warehouse for financial investment firm

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 25, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Oracle Database
2 years of experience
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a database for a mission-critical production environment with high availability, consistent performance and security for database over 100GB, then Oracle is still your top choice. If your database is not in this type of needs, I would recommend a SQL server.
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