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The Oracle for your business
Updated April 03, 2017

The Oracle for your business

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database 12c

We have an Oracle 12c database instance that we use as a staging platform for all the data flowing into this database from the ETL tools before being consumed by BI applications like Tableau. This helps Tableau pull the data from a data source rather than ETL tools having to push data directly to Tableau. Other areas in my organization also use Oracle as a staging area before loading the data to Teradata.
  • Stable data source that has never crashed in our business area
  • Wonderful tech support that is approachable and helpful
  • Oracle drivers are compatible with most BI applications
  • Slow performance as compared to Teradata
  • Does not provide the flexibility or the speed like other big data competitors
  • Provided stable staging environment
  • Expensive to maintain
Teradata being the biggest competitor is by far the fastest DBMS in my experience, along with speed Teradata also offers a better price for their enterprise grade solutions. A company looking at oracle should also consider scaling and maybe decide to invest on big data technologies.
Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server, Alteryx Analytics, Alteryx Analytics Gallery, IBM Cognos, Teradata Database, Microsoft Office 2016, JIRA Service Desk, BMC Remedy Asset Management, WebEx Meetings, Jabber, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot
It is extremely well suited as a staging platform for most popular BI tools in the market, it is robust and can be depended upon as an enterprise grade DBMS solution. However, Oracle in my experience is expensive and most of the clients I have worked with do not prefer expanding their Oracle infrastructure.