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Jose G.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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My experience with Oracle has been as administrator and developer which gives me an overview of the projects and has allowed me, thanks to the tools it provides, to achieve projects that with other database managers could not have been successfully completed, that is, the multiple tools provided by oracle are very helpful although the examples and the documentation seem scarce
It is a very powerful database from the point of view of storage and development, I have used oracle in many aspects, as a database engine and for a large amount of data it is perfect because it handles high volume data efficiently, as well It provides the advantage of being able to develop with SQL ansi standard procedures and tasks that automate the management of data, the advantage of being able to run on any platform and with any development tool allows development projects to be carried out in the expected time, compatibility It is your biggest advantage
As a disadvantage I think that the way to handle the downloads of the connection drivers for the different platforms is a bit tedious since other databases do not require so much protocol to download the drivers. it may be necessary in some cases to document about the new functionalities because the examples provided by the provider are not so clear and / or non-existent
Carlos Hugo Martin C.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We have used it more for the implementation of highly transactional systems.
You can create a database in which you are controlling all aspects of it, allowing you to better manage the resources you have.
Database administration can become more complex than it should.
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Government Administration,
Used daily for 2+ years
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I got a working database for my application from this software, but there could be so much more for that price using modern concepts.
Oracle Database aligns with the topics you learned in your Intro to Databases class. It has tables, columns, keys, indexes, triggers, and all the things you want to avoid in your modern applications.
It is big, resource-intensive, expensive, hard to maintain, hard to patch, unreliable, impossible to distribute without an equally cumbersome and expensive add-on, and it keeps your applications mired in the past.
Madhusudan S.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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The database software Oracle is incredibly effective and high-performance. The best feature of Oracle is its connection feature, which makes it easy to connect the database to a project and save data from a project in the Oracle database. It also supports a variety of various platforms.
It's a fantastic database with a wealth of functionality that is optimised, and I am the one that utilised it for a few years before moving to the cloud. Because of Oracle's excellent support and ability to manage complicated IT applications, database operations are straightforward to do and data processing is quick.
As it's not an open-source database, we will always have to pay up front when putting a small-scale application into place. I experienced no further drawbacks, therefore if at all possible, utilise this.
Wesley A.
Information Services, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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I was having issues getting it to work with Entity Framework as far as retrieving meta data when the database entities were changed.
The DBMS has many features and they are very efficient.
The error messages seem a little vague at times and really don't describe the problem.
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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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1. Robust Data Backup and recovery Options is the major capability of Oracle2. Flexible to implement or host in both Cloud as well as in on premise.3. In Built Data Movement tools like Export and Import Data Pump, which help is secured Data copy4.Java Support is the key feature that differentiate this from other databases5. Operational Data Stores can be maintained and is so reliable6. Access controls are at a granular level and too secure
Complex Architecture, Average Customer Support , Price is expensive, not an easy DB for Begineers
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Telecommunications, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The best traditional RDBMS , May be well suited for transactional database setup.
The traditional database enables you to configure the data storage and SQL concepts to store the data in efficient way .
The latest cloud databases in the market and its features are so attractive and easy to use capabilities make us to go away with oracle.
Devesh V.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Large businesses and organisations with sophisticated data processing requirements may benefit from the strength and dependability of Oracle Database, a robust database management system. It is a top option for businesses wishing to store, manage, and analyse massive volumes of data because to its excellent security features, scalability, and analytics capabilities. For smaller businesses or individuals with lower data management needs, however, it might not be the ideal choice owing to its complexity.
manage enormous volumes of data easily, making it a great option for businesses and organisations with extensive data processing requirements.
The price of Oracle Database is yet another possible disadvantage. The licence strategy can be complicated, and the software is typically more expensive than other database management systems. For certain organs, this can be a considerable entrance hurdle.
Romaric S.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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It's a perfect database solution for hybrid and complex apps. It offers premium cutting-edge cloud database technologies for any business level. I firmly recommend it
Oracle cooperation has always been a reliable option for professional cloud infrastructures.Oracle Database helps us to deploy our apps (and even clients') to clouds with more flexibility. Its infrastructural capacities are extremely reliable and the company provides adequate security measures too.It's our first choice when it comes to recommending database solutions to our clients.
The cost prediction is very high in most cases. I think the pricing options are more enterprise-oriented and in most cases can't be suitable for small or low-budget companies.We would have loved to use the Oracle Database integrator for most projects, but we wouldn't due to high pricing deficits.
Hermione O.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Oracle Database is an optimal choice for enterprise applications due to its robust security and reliability. It has great scalability for dealing with large amounts of data and traffic, as well as helpful tools and features such as the Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Recovery Manager that make it easier to manage and ensure its optimal performance.
It can be difficult to learn and configure the database correctly, and the overall complexity can make it difficult to troubleshoot issues. Additionally, the cost of purchasing and maintaining Oracle Database can be prohibitive.
Osuavareghe A.
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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As a Faculty who has made use of and taught Oracle, Ms SQL, MySQL and Ms Access and Excel, I can boldly tell you that Oracle Database Management Software remains the best and to shock you that's why the biggest organizations in the world makes use of it. One other thing you need to know is that it is most secure DBMS you can ever think of when it comes to data management.
Oracle DBMS is the best when you talk about large data manipulation SQL/PL-SQL runtime is way beyond its counterparts such as MySQL and MS SQL. Another feature is the availability of support (API) for different programming languages. Programmers can easily develop applications using whether it be mobile apps, web based or other server based applications, Oracle is a sure bet. Oracle's availability, recoverability, performance feature is also an added advantage. The new feature that removes human error of patching and upgrading by automating the process is another key benefit.
Oracle DBMS may not be the right choice for a small organization just starting if they do not have enough money to purchase its license. Oracle license is really expensive. One other thing is that you will need a highly skilled oracle professional to harness all the benefits Oracle truly provides.
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Higher Education, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I used Oracle database for programming application logics for a technician management applications for a client. I also used Oracle database to support database layer for several of my clients in my career so far.
I have been using Oracle Database since the version 10g. I have had a chance to work on several other database platforms like Sybase, MS SQL and MySQL. Oracle database comes with tons of features which many of the other databases don't have. I am not sure if i can say that other way round for other databases i have used. It's quite complicated to learn and definitely complicated to master, but it provides you with enough tools to do complicated tasks quite easily. You can also code your application programming languages using it's native PL/SQL language. Oracle Database also let's you make calls to Java programs and embed some Java inside the PL/SQL.
It's costly! It's quite costly if you are using it for small businesses. Some of the very sophisticated features are only available for enterprise version of Oracle Database which is quite costly. Oracle is very price oriented, so be careful about the budget when you chose Oracle Database.
Sukesh N.
Computer Software, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I had great experience working on different versions of oracle databases and the technologies like Goldengate,RAC,ASM,OEM,RMAN,DATAPUMP. I highly recommend my friends to learn oracle db administration as it is very useful if chosen as a career.
Being a oracle database administrator I like to manage and work on unique technologies that are available, like Real application cluster,Golden gate,RMAN, Datapump and its is really challenging at times when we receive performance related issues. It provides high level security on data where we can recover lost data or corrupt data using various technologies like RMAN,DATAPUMP,DATAGUARD,RAC. ASM makes the database maintenance even more simple while adding new disks into storage or adding datafiles. Goldengate can be used to configure data replication between different vender databases and OEM 12C and above can be used to monitor other vendor databases and OS alerts too.The Cloud enviornment makes it look cooler.
I don't find any cons as such as but the ORACLE-SUPPORT response is slow sometimes even on high priority issues and we need to raise a call to the manager
Ruban D.
Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I have used Oracles DB as RDBMS for multiple application and I have formed cluster with RAC. So far I have not faced any issues with the DB. Some of the performance issue while users performs any operation in the app was due to the costly SQL calls like joins.
Very fast for all the SQL transaction. The performance is good which in turns increases the performance/response time of the application I build on top of it. Disaster recovery, Master/slave replication and high availability feature which is built besides are very helpful
RAC and clustering is complex for the beginners. But the practicality of these feature are really useful.
Carlos David M.
Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The Bank for which I am consultant has been using Oracle for ages. If you can rely in such product for supporting trillions of financing transactions everyday, you can be sure that you have selected a great deal. I am very pleased with the performance and all the capabilities that Oracle Database has bring to our platforms.
With Oracle Database you can be sure you are backed up by one of the best RDBS available on the market. Features like query hints mark the difference with its competitors and can be very important when evaluating the performance of your data source tier. Oracle Database provides flexibility of data representation and all kinds of tools that help you succeed in your platform development. Preserving data is the most important thing in every organization.
Licensing can be quite costly if you take into account that there are very good Open source solutions available out there.
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Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Oracle is a versatile, robust and reliable database. Can be used for a variety of work loads like OLTP and OLAP. Provides options for easy installation and maintenance but can also be tweaked by advanced users.
License management is complex. If licenses are understood properly and not managed or tracked, it may lead to legal/financial implications.
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Banking, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Very good software, I have been using oracle for 5 years as a database administrator, it gives me security and integrity in the data, the manipulation of the data is safe and easy. It is stable with the systems in which oracle has been implemented
Integrity and data security Standardized the use of sql It can be run on any operating system and on any machine from PC to high-tech servers Allows database replication in a secure and consistent manner Allows multiple databases (Instances) in the same server The export and backup of the database is done according to the different needs of the user if it is a table excluding certain parameters, etc. It can be monitored by application such as cloud control. It allows to generate reports, statistics, multiple queries.
Incompatibility with previous versions at the time of restoration High costs
Yoshiomi K.
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It performed well and managed large amounts of data efficiently.
The update process is very complicated. It was necessary to review the procedure well in advance. Just running the installer is not enough to update.
Jeannette Haydeé D.
501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The options to have only one server installed with one Oracle Database with N containers
Oracle Database is always a good options. Its very consistent, stable and scalability: It´s 12c version have a new funcionality wich is the container database. We can create one or more container in one same database. In the same instalation we can manage more than one container of database, this is very helpfull for applications databases division.
The container always is create in a closed state, after the creation of container, is necesary alter the status to change it to open state and even when you create a container with a administrator user (no sys user), is necesary give permissions DBA to that user because it doesn´t inherit that permissions
Keyver A.
Used daily for 2+ years
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One of the clients that has the company I work in is a very large bank which manages millions and millions of transactions per day and had already tried other handlers and none of them worked or failed concurrency or memory but since we used oracle both the customer as the developers are happy
the best database manager that in my opinion exists, is super robust, super stable, since I never use an application I dropped it, handles millions of records in a matter of seconds which other handlers do if they collapse instead oracle any amount of millions of records the menja and processed as without greater difficulty
get a point against the truth is that I do not see it because for me the handler is the best of the best ... for something I give 5 stars
Miguel Alejandro A.
Computer Networking, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The only problems we ever got where contract problems, never experienced data corruption nor data loss, it's indeed the excellence in database managers.
This is the structured database manager that set the industry standard Very powerful, fully adjustable. Very fast and capable of handling the most variable loads maintaining data consistency across the database landscape (it can be clustered, distributed, etc). It includes plsql by default, a very powerful tool for specialized reports, or data treatment.
It's expensive, but if you can pay it, it'll be worth it . Once you're into Oracle SQL, you must remain in it, the contract is quite hard to leave.
Steven C.
Financial Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Great software, a general “supports all” database, but not specialised in any particular element of the database world,
Easy to deploy, we have high usage varying from standard installs to multi instance, rack, replicated high availability and reporting instances. Good performance and competes with our other standard database options if approved.
Compared to other similar products the options can be overwhelming, but once understood you can easily integrate this into your organisation. GoldenGate for replication makes high availability easy, backups are configurable and quantifiable which satisfies many regulatory requirements.
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Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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i have been using oracle database since version 10g we have implemented it for web applications , ERP solutions and cloud apps for a A tier organisation. it can handle high transaction volum and lot of features for specific business needs which might not be available in other competitor product in market.
-oracle database comes in 4 editions: standard,enterprise,personal,express. we have flexibility to use one of the edition on specific needs. -cloud ready architecture -strong user community
- expensive pricing models - extremely complicated architecture , not easy to acquire complete - separate costs for additional features like partitioning and performance tuning
syed h.
Banking, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I am oracle database administrator and i have a great experience with oracle. I highly recommend to use oracle as a career it is also very attractive.
Oracle is the giant in the database. It is the most powerful database. Almost overall financial industry is using oracle as their database. The most likely feature of oracle is the security. Their security is very tough and encryption is very protective and undecryptable.
Oracle’s all features are remarkable but the least remarkable is oracle performance tuning feature in enterprise manager.
Daniel L.
Medical Devices, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Overall I find it great for database development, and as I get better I'm sure I will like it even more.
I find that scalability and database manipulation are two of my favorite features in using oracle database.
it is very complex and hard to use , and requires lots of training and tutorials to get what you want to do accomplished, wished it came with some canned basic scripts.