Database that allow you to sleep at night!
June 26, 2018
Database that allow you to sleep at night!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database
In the organization, we use the Oracle Database as the main repository of all the data of the institution at the national level, resulting from the services provided to the population in the areas of real estate and mortgages, trade, intellectual property, movable guarantees, geographical topics and the national cadastre.
- Reliable and stable. Over time we have not experienced drops or service interruptions due to a bug or other factors that could be attributed to the database engine.
- High availability. We have the solution implemented with Oracle RAC of 2 nodes that gives us greater capabilities to provide the service.
- Disaster Recovery. We have a protection of the database through the feature included in the Enterprise version. Oracle Data Guard that allows us to have the primary database in the main city and a copy (contingency database) in another department of the country (65 miles away approx.).
- Monitoring with the Cloud Control feature, we have an overview of the health of the primary database with RAC and the secondary database with Oracle Data Guard.
- In general, we are satisfied with the Oracle database, the only point that we always have problems with is the licensing with virtualization systems other than Oracle Virtual Machine because it does not take as valid the distribution of cores with other virtualization tools.
- Although the issue of the annual support of the Oracle solution is significant because it is 22% of the total licenses that have been acquired over the years and taking into account that annually increases from 3% to 4% depending on the channel , it's worth it for the stability and security that the information is correctly protected with a robust solution with extensive support and commitment to developing improvements by the manufacturer. Practically it constitutes the main element in the provision of our services and we can not put in risk our prestige nor the legal security of the protected information.
Due to the level of transactionality in the institution and the importance of the information, we selected a more robust database engine such as Oracle.