Oracle Database for critical workloads that can scale
Updated February 28, 2020
Oracle Database for critical workloads that can scale
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database
Oracle Database forms the primary database (with MySQL as secondary) that is used for the whole organization. It is used to store both internal data (accounts payable, employee records, etc) as well as used for customer data and analytics data sets.
- Oracle Database does security and compliance very well out of the box without the need for much configuration.
- It works very well across on-prem and cloud deployments where we want part of the database in-house (due to compliance reasons) while the rest can be in the public cloud.
- It is also very good in scaling to large datasets and performance numbers ( time to run a SQL query) are much better than DB2, Microsoft SQL Server etc.
- Pricing can be improved to make it much more competitive with other RDBMS options in the space
- Best practices documents and deployment scenarios for running Oracle Database on non-Oracle cloud platforms would be helpful (for example Oracle Database on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure).
- Certainly room for better integrated and automated SQL tuning.
- Positive impact on reducing CapEx by needing one less DBA to manage IT.
- Positive impact on the business's compliance and security standards with better auditing due to use of Oracle Database.
- Reduced need for upfront database license and hence larger ROI through ability to expand database instances in the Cloud when needed.
Oracle Database has a better reputation in quality of the database compared to Amazon Aurora, SAP, Microsoft and IBM DB2. There are also better developer ecosystems available that can be used for issues and hiring DBAs and developers with the experience on Oracle Database. Pricing wise, Oracle Database can be a little expensive if sales rep don't provide the discounts, but that is fine. This made Oracle Database the top choice.