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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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The Reality of Oracle Databases
I have had the opportunity to work in companies of almost all sizes, and most of them have Oracle as their main database management system as a repository for their core business. Without a doubt, having Oracle is a guarantee that the company's data will not only be safe, but also supported by specialized database engineers who will help resolve any incident that may arise. In all topics related to databases, such as, backup and restore, performance tuning, networking, core administration, storage management, security, among others, Oracle offers a truly mature product to meet any business requirement and compliance.
Pros
Only a few databases (such as IBM DB2) have this attribute. Due to this main features of the Oracle database, Oracle engineers have taken advantage of years of evolution and created a truly robust database that supports a large amount of data. I don't think any other database on the market can handle data volume like Oracle does while maintaining a high level of performance. Another thing I like about the Oracle database is that the company has invested in creating not only one of the best databases on the market, but also hardware with a high level of performance and has recently added interesting capabilities of artificial intelligence to the database engine.
Cons
There are two widely known issues about Oracle databases that most people in the database community complain about (and so do I). The first is related to cost, as the cost of Oracle licenses, training and consulting are generally higher when compared to other alternative products. Second, is Oracle’s licensing structure, particularly for those who are in the process of obtaining a new Oracle license. In general, Oracle licensing is complex; A lawyer will most likely be essential during negotiations, as Oracle's license terms are complicated.
Reasons for Switching to Oracle Database
Due to its strength in high availability, backup and restore, performance and security.
- Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Powerful and feature-rich
It is a widely used relational database management system renowned for its robustness, scalability, and comprehensive feature set and it's often the preferred choice for large enterprises and mission-critical applications due to its ability to handle massive datasets and complex workloads; however, it can also be expensive and complex to manage, making it less suitable for smaller organizations or those with limited IT resources.
Pros
Can handle large datasets and heavy workloads; making it ideal for enterprises with growing data needs also is renowned for its stability and reliability, making it suitable for mission-critical applications, prioritizes security with features like encryption, auditing, and role-based access control.
Cons
Licensing is expensive, especially for larger deployments or enterprise editions. While powerful and feature-rich, is often associated with significant additional costs. These costs can be a major factor influencing the decision to adopt or continue using Oracle for organizations of all sizes.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft SQL ServerReasons for Choosing Oracle Database
Because it is developed by a vibrant community of developers, ensuring ongoing innovation and improvements, making it more efficient than a large program, and open sourced.Switched From
MariaDBReasons for Switching to Oracle Database
Offering a wide range of features and tight integration with other Microsoft products.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Oracle Database
Pros
It’s great for big businesses that need reliable and secure database solutions
Cons
It can be expensive, and setting it up or managing it isn’t always easy
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Not intuitive for end-user
Pros
It is the only place where I can get all information regarding me as an employee: what training do I have pending, what training have I had, what are the updates to my contract, etc
Cons
I find the structuring of the page to be very confusing, terms are too generalized so I never get to what I want in the first try
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Oracle Database as RDBMS
Pros
Oracle Database is one of the options that you can choose for RDBMS. It provides a lot of features and tools to support our databases. The performance itself is quite fast.
Cons
The Oracle's license is quite expensive especially if we just started with a minimum budget.
Alternatives Considered
MySQLReasons for Choosing Oracle Database
Project requirement is to use Oracle DatabaseSwitched From
PostgreSQL- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Oracle Database: Still a Leader in DBMS and SQL Databases
Great experience using Oracle in academia. Concepts such as SQL tuning and optimization, indexing, cloud integration, ER-Design, SQL injection attacks, ... can be effectively demonstrated to students using this RDBMS.
Pros
Oracle Database has been my number one choice when teaching enterprise application development. Although it is a bit heavy and not that easy to deploy, students can get a lot of advantages learning a highly demanded DBMS platform that really adds a lot on their resume. The SQL concepts are easily tested against the database using the SQL Developer software. Moreover, JDBC drivers allow seamless integrations and very high performance when using Java to connect to the database on the client side, or when relying on the Java Servlets and Java Server Pages middleware on the Application server. Using Oracle with Java based technologies was definitely a very compatible option that simplifies and speeds up the development process.
Cons
As stated, Oracle is not very easy to install and configure by novice developers. It is a bit heavy on low end devices.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft SQL ServerReasons for Switching to Oracle Database
Oracle is the leader in RDBMS platforms and facilitating its use by CS students would add a lot to their skills and career opportunities.- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Oracle Database: the big name in relational and cloud DBMS.
We developed a lot of Java-based desktop/enterprise applications with Oracle in the back-end. Customer support was amazing in addition to the vast amount of resources available online to tackle almost any issue in installation, setup, development and deployment. Way ahead of other rival products such as MS-SQL Server, MySQL, DB2.
Pros
The advanced relational database management features from transaction management, SQL query optimization, concurrency control, security in design, to cloud integration to mention few make Oracle a way ahead of competition in the RDBMS cloud database market.
Cons
Oracle is a bit expensive with a complicated licensing process. This is justified in return of the smartest DBMS algorithms available but still some more flexible cloud licensing strategies would make the system much better accessible to developers and administrators.
Reasons for Choosing Oracle Database
The scalability of the database and the resilience of the algorithms available in Oracle makes it on the top of the list when selecting a production relational database management system.- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Accurate but Expensive DB
Overall, the Oracle DB brings the value to your organization in numerous ways. You must have some people trained very well on this DB. It's little old fashioned but brings the best of its kind, with ability to scale up and down based on your need.
Pros
Accurate information collected and grouped into meaning full tables. Highly customizable database with ability to connect with other DB with APIs.
Cons
Compared to the other DB in the market the Oracle DB is little user friendly and less sophisticated. Tools and icons in the DB itself must be remembered for fluent use. Limited analytics is available unless you want to pay more for the additional analytics and BI.
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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Oracle Database Review
Not cons really. I had been working with DB2 and SQL Server and when I started to work with Oracle, I was amazed at how Oracle could easily take me from traditional databases.
We used to use Crystal Reports or SAS to generate reports. Oracle had it easy. Also, designing a Database (or Warehouse Storage) we were using tools like Erwin. Oracle, you can design a Database, generste reports et Voila!
Pros
After working with DB2, Oracle was a breath of fresh air

- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Oracle Database, one of your go-to secure database solutions
We had trouble setting up the first Database, but whenever we started, creating tables could not be any better. It takes some time to perfect, but it's worth the time.
Pros
I think the most fantastic thing about Oracle Database is the capability of solving hard problems with simple solutions. We've faced a lot of troubles and it still gives a fair fight even to AI solutions, and it's awesome.
Cons
I think for sure the ease of use could be better, but with some addins and tools to support the everyday work, you can make this tool one of your best to deal with your data storing problems.
- Industry: Law Enforcement
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Top
Pros
The data is stored on a solid product and is easily accessible via queries in the excellent graphical interface that the SQL Developer product from the same manufacturer offers.
Cons
It is a very complex product for professionals only and the installation and configuration are not user friledly and simple
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Your Database Temple
Great experience using it. It’s a widely used service in the global level.
Pros
Best in the market for data storage, analytics, migration. Great support and easy to use.
Cons
Duplicates isssues was prevalent when I used. It is easy to get it resolved though.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Highly reliable database.
This is where I started learning and using databases, that means this was the base of all. I was used to write queries and try those out with oracle.
Pros
Most importantly, this supports various data types like text, binary data and numbers and oracle can handle large amount of data efficiently. Also we can easily integrate it with multiple programming languages where I used it in multiple projects with different languages. This supports data backup and replicas and it make sure the availability of data in an unexpected condition.
Cons
As a drawback what I see is the resource consumption of the tool. It takes lot memory and CPU power and that makes my old laptop slower.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Oracle Database - Still hasn't lost its charm in RDBMS area !
The best traditional RDBMS , May be well suited for transactional database setup.
Pros
The traditional database enables you to configure the data storage and SQL concepts to store the data in efficient way .
Cons
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.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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High security, simple database operations, and advanced functionality
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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Oracle Leading in IT!!!
Pros
Oracle comes with a diversity in functions, features and helpful examples. Oracles easy integration to projects as well as its vast capability to store data into the database helps oracle be the top for choice.
Cons
Oracle is a bit of expensive they could decrease the pricing.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Oracle review
I have been using the oracle database since my carrier beginning. It was using to load the transactional data to oracle tables and making the business use cases to perform the improvements.
Pros
I have been working on the data warehouse projects using the oracle as warehouse database. It is easy to understand and loading into the oracle data base. We can create temp tables and backup tables on the fly for business calculations and remove after the data load into target tables.
I would recommend to use Oracle database to use for data warehouse projects.
Cons
I feel that if we can add fast export into files Like fast export and multi load processes. We do have this process in oracle using the bulk load too.

- Used Daily for 1+ year
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It is considered the database manager par excellence worldwide, however it has its detractors
I have learned a lot using Oracle, it would be great if it were not so expensive, as well as being certified in it. It is important to know that a well-crafted database will work in any database manager, Oracle can not solve faults or problems in a poorly-related database
Pros
- Allows the management of relational databases from very simple to large volumes of data.
- Because it is relational, the PL / SQL language is used.
- It is agile, consistent and robust.
- It has all the functionalities that a DBA would like to have for the management, control and performance of the databases.
- A well-configured cluster with Oracle is practically invincible.
- Oracle is currently bringing all its products and services to the cloud, that is, based on Internet.
- The graphic tools used with Oracle are intuitive and easy to use, practically They do all the work.
- The tools also allow you to intone databases, improve performance, give you alerts.
- Allows to make backup copies, partitions, manage users to control the security of information.
Cons
- An Oracle license is very expensive, so it is not accessible to everyone.
- Staff with knowledge in Oracle is equally expensive, information costs money!
- It is difficult to access information related to the driver, its configuration and maintenance.
- For DBA without experience, a configuration is complicated by the amount of details that must be consider.
- If you do not have a graphical interface to work with Oracle, you should have knowledge in commands to work in consoles or terminals.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Why Oracle Software Product ERP is the most Suitable (My Review)
Pros
good for large enterprises That need high performance that why big company in my country always usually use it
Cons
Not an open source , oracle always search for earning , Any tools using (SAP,FORMS BUILDER, APEX , ADF) from Oracle will get you to pay alot their website is difficult to get information or learn from it , Oracle support is too weak
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Pros
the features are most impactful and seamless
Cons
yes but it is still oaky for now but they can do betetr
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best Relational Database Platform in market
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Trending database technique with high level data protection,availability,scalability and cloud
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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

- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Probably most powerful database
The whole customer engineer dispatch system that my team use is linked with Oracle database and every work order goes through it. From the dispatch to opening new tasks, ordering parts, escalating to other teams and closing the work orders, everything is being stored in Oracle DB.
I also use it to pull data when I need to create reports for the customers or when I simply want to check the status of a specific work order.
Pros
As a Java programmer, for me personally, Oracle database is one of the most important platforms that I use. The overwhelming features of the platform, its history, scalabillity and the overall usability is almost breathtaking. Java and Oracle, connected with Hibernate are a really powerful triumvirate of technology.
As a user, I use oracle database every single day for dispatching customer engineers, managing the work orders, pulling data and creating reports.
Cons
So far I can only say good things about Oracle DB.

- Industry: Textiles
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Oracle Database
its goods for textile sector.different madules data can be arranged at one data base which minimize the data arrange time.
Pros
Oracle database is best manager of the data, PL/SQL used to arrange data which makes possible to arrange data 100% accurate.Huge data can be manage through a simple click.its spread sheets have millions of rows and columns.we can extract spread sheet of oracle database toMS Excle through refreahable files.
Cons
PL/SQL is very senstive language and its resources persons are highly paid.secondly its license is much expensive.
We have to refresh exi file while entring any new data.

- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Oracle Database Review from an Senior Oracle DBA
I have used oracle for Datawarehouse, transactional systems, golden gate replications, among others. It is the core database of the company I currently work for.
Pros
I have been working as a Database Administrator since 2011, Oracle is by far the best relational database I have used. It works better on unix-like systems, it is very fast, has lots of parameters to tune to your specific needs and it also has a lot of features like partinioning, high availability soluctions like RAC and Dataguard that make this the best database on the market for mission critical systems.
Cons
The online documentation needs improvement, sometimes it is incomplete, there are not enough examples for some features. Customer Support is erratic, sometimes it´s great and sometimes not so much, it depends on the support tech.