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#1 Database on the market!
September 30, 2019

#1 Database on the market!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database

We have over 40 Applications running on Oracle Database. Oracle Database is used by the entire organization in dev, test, staging, training and production environments. I can't, unfortunately, go into details of the business problems it addresses.
  • Oracle Database Security - #1 on market - Database Vault, Transparent-Data-Encryption (TDE), Audit Vault, Label Security, User Security, Fine Grain Auditing, SQL Injection, Network Encryption, Virtual Private Database (VPD), and etc.
  • RMAN backup/restore.
  • Oracle CPU patching - A nightmare to manually deploy it to every single database every quarter.
  • In OEM, there are limited functionalities for SQL server.
  • SID limited to 8 characters.
  • I can't image our applications running without Oracle database - a relational database is a must to store data, especially with many features provided by Oracle and keeping improving and enhancing.
  • No negative impact I can think of.
  • The multi-cloud innovation will keep our databases running in Oracle.
We also have Microsoft SQL Server, not by choice though. Some COTS software vendors only provide us with the options of hosting metadata on SQL Server. The repositories are usually very small comparing to the Oracle Database we have with real user data.
Large scaled, complex, and/or mission-critical applications are well suited to use Oracle Database whether it is OLTP or Data Warehouse. Some COTS software may prefer to use other vendor databases, such as SQL Server. I have also seen vendors use SQL server as metadata repositories for their software.