Oracle Coherence is an in-memory data grid solution that enables organizations to predictably scale mission-critical applications by providing fast access to frequently used data. As data volumes and customer expectations increase, driven by the “internet of things”, social, mobile, cloud and always-connected devices, so does the need to handle more data in real-time, offload over-burdened shared data services and provide availability guarantees.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Oracle Coherence | 2.4% |
| Redgate SQL Toolbelt Essentials | 4.5% |
| Spotlight | 4.0% |
| Other | 89.1% |
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| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redis | 4.4 | N/A | 100% | 24 interviewsAdd to research |
| VMware Tanzu Data Solutions | 4.0 | 2.8% | 89% | 85 interviewsAdd to research |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 17 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 60 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 20 |
| Large Enterprise | 122 |
Oracle Coherence comes with a rich set of processing and event capabilities so applications can scale processing with increased data volumes. By automatically and dynamically partitioning data, Oracle Coherence ensures continuous data availability and transactional integrity, even in the event of a server or site failure.
Oracle Coherence provides organizations with a robust scale-out data abstraction layer that brokers the supply and demand of data between applications and data sources. This cost-effectively offloads shared data services such as databases, mainframes, and partner services.
For more information on Oracle Coherence, visit Oracle.com
Oracle Coherence was previously known as Coherence.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Data Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | I use Oracle Coherence for financial data solutions due to its multi-indexing and real-time processing capabilities, which enhance data querying and decision-making. While its setup can be complex, its performance outweighs initial challenges despite a recent price increase. |
| Vice President - Database management at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 2.5 | I find Oracle Coherence has significant stability and performance issues, is not scalable, and contains too many bugs, which is my main concern. While support is okay, I rate it 5/10. |
| Enterprise Service Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | Having used this for 10 years, I value its distributed storage and service bus for high data volumes. While customer service is good, we face intermittent data stability, and I believe OSB needs better tuning, perhaps like Apigee. |
| Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees | 4.5 | I found Oracle Coherence valuable for its caching, QL, and triggers, providing better performance and less space than Ehcache, despite a complex initial setup. |
| Senior Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.5 | I value Coherence's POF for Java/.NET data exchange and monitoring dashboard. It's stable and scalable, but cross-geographic performance needs improvement compared to Oracle DB. The license is expensive, yet it's a superior distributed cache. |
| Senior Associate at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | This product significantly improved my application's latency and scalability through distributed caching. However, I found its initial setup and configuration complex, and it needs better support for advanced aggregation and atomicity. |
| CEO | 3.0 | I found Coherence offered in-memory data grid and improved performance, but its stability is a major concern due to cluster issues. Setup was easy, but the product is expensive with poor customer service. I advise investing in your network. |
| Hands On CTO at a tech services company | 4.5 | I find Oracle Coherence a powerful, stable near cache, despite its high cost and basic Java interface for data loading. Setup was easy, but serialization and updates need careful planning. Support is standard. |
