Item: Oracle Database Cloud Service
Rating: 10
Author: Nagabhushan Krishnappa

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The DBaaS Database Administrator role is created for the Oracle Database Cloud Service team to work on the environments. When the Database Cloud Service account is first set up, the service administrator is given this role. User accounts with this role must be added before anyone else can access and use Database Cloud Service. The identity domain administrator can create more Database Cloud Service administrators by creating user accounts and assigning them the DBaaS Database Administrator. Administrative tasks are generally provided using DBas role on the database technology.

Pros and Cons

Oracle Cloud provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). These services are used to build, deploy, integrate, and extend applications in the cloud.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Data as a Service (DaaS)

Licensing cost compared to other cloud platforms.

Return on Investment

Billing on Hosted Environment per hour, OCPU per hour, block volumes, object storage, etc.
Costing & maintenance, patching.
Security & TDE cycles.
Backups & recovery.
The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features, like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc. which make the solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well.
Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and high ROI.

Alternatives Considered

Azure SQL Database

The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features
like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc which make the
solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well. As we saw above, Enterprise
Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and
high ROI.

Other Software Used

Oracle Linux, Oracle Application Container Cloud, Oracle ERP Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.

Cloud to conquer the technology

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database Cloud Service