The Oracle for your business
Updated April 03, 2017
The Oracle for your business
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
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.