Stable but Expensive and Tough to Use Enterprise Database Platform
Updated June 17, 2021
Stable but Expensive and Tough to Use Enterprise Database Platform
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Database
Oracle Database is our organization's primary database server. Our main line of business application uses it exclusively to store data making it mandatory across the organization. It provides a stable and scalable relational database platform but a high custom with extremely inflexible and frustrating licensing terms.
Pros
- Stable database platform.
- Sellable enterprise database platform.
- Known and trusted vendor.
Cons
- Cost: platform is expensive
- Virtualization support: Licensing model makes virtualization costly.
- Difficult to work with: Oracle is one of the most difficult vendors to work with.
- Negative ROI - It's extremely expensive to purchase
- High cost of ownership due to platforms complexity and high cost of Oracle DBAs.
- While it's expensive it does get the job done, it's stable and scaleable.
Microsoft SQL is just as stable and almost as sellable with a much lower cost of ownership (staff and licensing). But as our primary application doesn't support Microsoft SQL we had to license Oracle.
Do you think Oracle Database delivers good value for the price?
No
Are you happy with Oracle Database's feature set?
No
Did Oracle Database live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Oracle Database go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Oracle Database again?
No
Evaluating Oracle Database and Competitors
- Product Usability
We had no choice since it's the only platform our primary application supports.
The process was fine even through we aren't happy with the result we didn't have a choice.
Oracle Database Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | Escalation required Need to explain problems multiple times |
We use Oracle to support production workloads so we purchase support.
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