Quick to Provision and Easy to Manage Database as a Service from Oracle
October 05, 2021

Quick to Provision and Easy to Manage Database as a Service from Oracle

Lisandro Fernigrini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Autonomous Database

Oracle Autonomous Database was implemented as part of a proof of concept to simplify database creation and administration, enabling a quick way to deploy new instances without the need for highly trained database administrators in our development environments. Provisioning a new environment, having it disabled when it was not in use, and re-enabled as soon as it was required was one of the advantages we wanted to test.

Pros

  • Quick and automated provisioning
  • Automatic scaling
  • Automatic backup
  • Automatic upgrade/patching if required
  • Robust and reliable

Cons

  • Importing data from external sources can be simplified (it has been in the latest releases)
  • Cost
  • Easy to set up and provision environments, allowing our development teams to quickly start working on new projects or specific tasks that require new databases
  • Ability to quickly scale up and down based on demand.
  • Most tedious database administration tasks are automated.
Actually, we used both Oracle Autonomous Database for our Oracle-related environments and Azure SQL and Azure VMs hosting SQL Server for our SQL Server-related environments. We have different products, some of them are platform independent (can be deployed on Oracle, SQL Server, or some other DBs engines) but some of them are platform-specific, so we work with different databases and platforms.

Do you think Oracle Autonomous Database delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Autonomous Database's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Autonomous Database live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle Autonomous Database go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Autonomous Database again?

Yes

We found it extremely recommendable for development and testing environments. It is really simple and quick to create and provision new instances as required, stop them while they are not used, and re-start them when required. Specific environments (like stress tests, compliance, performance testing) can be created and eliminated once they are not required without requiring a system administrator or a database administrator.

Oracle Autonomous Database Feature Ratings

Database Development
Not Rated
Performance optimization tools
Not Rated
Schema maintenance
Not Rated
Database Administration
Not Rated
User management
Not Rated
Database security
Not Rated
Database status reporting
Not Rated

Using Oracle Autonomous Database

100 - Software Developers and Software Testers, in order to develop and test the applications we develop. Senior developers and architects also work on UAT/Stress Test/Performance Test environments for limited and specific periods of time and we are able to provision those environments in a simpler way without requiring the help of a database administrators team.
1 - I was the person responsible for managing the Autonomous Databases. I have a database administrator background (more than 15 years) and I was in charge of the database practice (from architecture to production support).
  • It can quickly provision development and testing environments.
  • It provides the ability to restore / recreate environments without a database administrators team involved.
Because it does exactly what we need: it enables us to manage our development and testing database environments in a quick and simple way without requiring support from a database administrators team.

Using Oracle Autonomous Database

The product is continuously evolving and new features are added frequently. Management options through the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console and through the command line and API are being enhanced frequently.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
None
  • Database provision
  • Backup (no action required!)
Yes, but I don't use it

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