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Oracle Database: The Best in Business & Totally Worth
January 03, 2024

Oracle Database: The Best in Business & Totally Worth

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database

We are a service support company and I am a certified Database Admin. We have different customers using Oracle databases and we maintain those databases. We do maintenance, monitoring, upgrade, and even migration of databases.
  • In memory feature - very fast. Earlier queries used to run in fetching data used to take time now it is very fast. We can even select which table should be used in the memory feature. So complex and big tables are utilized properly.
  • Restore and Point of Time Recovery - In my entire career of 10 years, Oracle Database has been the most consistent and reliable database. The RMAN backup concept is the best example. If any disaster happens in another database, there is a chance of loss of data or getting corrupted but Oracle is best.
  • Oracle Database restoration and recovery is complex. RMAN backup recovery has quite a lot of steps and is complex. In other databases, it is very much simplified.
  • Oracle user extend validity - this is tricky as users are assigned to profiles and if you want to extend the validity of a particular user, it becomes difficult. That is where it can be improved.
  • Some customers are using the Oracle Database standard version. In the standard version, some features are limited, but it is still working well. So from a license/cost perspective, even if we use a version with limited features, it is very robust and consistent.
  • Totally worth the investment. Oracle Database is the best database.
Oracle Database is best in business, consistent, and robust. Even the standard version is sufficient for the best performance. The main thing is I have never seen corruption and in my opinion, it is best when used with Linux.

Do you think Oracle Database delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Database's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Database live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle Database go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Database again?

Yes

It is suited for Linux as Linux machines are generally not rebooted for years. We have seen other databases with memory leak issues or Windows system resource utilization becomes high and we need to regularly reboot machines whereas in Linux, Linux doesn't have those issues. With the Oracle Database combination, we have seen some critical production servers that do not need to get rebooted for years and still work well without any issues, which is amazing.

Using Oracle Database

500 - We have several applications running on Oracle Database, for example, Eyelit Application, Identity Manager, Oracle, Agile, SAP ECC systems, and even BW Dataware House.
30 - Oracle Database Developer, Oracle Admin/ BA Oracle, Monitoring team, Oracle License Management team
  • Several application uses and compatibility
  • We have an RAC environment along with ASM - active-passive servers so it will also work like HA/DR. It is possible with Oracle Database.
  • Oracle Cloud functionality - we are still exploring.
Oracle Database is the best database and we have been using it for 12 years now. We have seen Oracle growing and innovating. Some of the new features are excellent, especially in memory, where performance improves drastically.