Carbonite Server vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

OpenText and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. OpenText is ranked #56, while Oracle is ranked #23 with an average rating of 9.3. OpenText holds a 1.0% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Carbonite Server

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Oracle Data Guard and Carbonite Server compete in the data protection and disaster recovery category. Oracle Data Guard has the upper hand due to its robust features and better ROI, while Carbonite Server stands out for ease of deployment and customer service.

Features: Oracle Data Guard offers high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection, which integrates well with Oracle environments. Carbonite Server features ease of use, cross-platform support, and automatic backups. Users find Oracle Data Guard's advanced data replication effective and note Carbonite Server's user-friendliness and versatility.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Data Guard needs simplification of setup and enhanced reporting tools. Carbonite Server needs better large-scale data transfer speeds and more comprehensive recovery options. Oracle's complexity and Carbonite's performance challenges are notable areas for development.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard's setup is complex and time-consuming, unlike Carbonite Server which is straightforward. Oracle Data Guard's customer service is less responsive compared to Carbonite's highly rated support, giving Carbonite an edge in user-friendliness and support quality.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard has higher setup costs but offers good ROI due to reliability and integration. Carbonite Server has lower initial costs and provides a balance of cost and functionality, although ROI might be lower in large-scale deployments.

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Categories and Ranking

Carbonite Server

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

56th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (46th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

23rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Carbonite Server is 1.0%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Carbonite Server	1.0%
Other	98.1%

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Chris Puddy

Backup, storage and disaster recovery technical specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

A reliable backup product which needs little management

For most technical users the setup and initial deployment are fairly straightforward and once deployed it 99% of the time looks after itself. Installation of the agents is similar to most other products in that it has an install wizard to guide you, the accompanying documentation is also very useful to assist wherever you are in the agent install and policy setup process. Normally our customers' IT team does the deployment of agents, however, this isn't a daunting task unless you are dealing with multiple servers to protect the product. On a server-by-server basis, the deployment doesn't take long. From the MSP side of things, the infrastructure sitting behind the scenes doesn't take too much to install, configure and maintain.

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AdnanNaseem

Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Active data protection has ensured high availability and supports seamless reporting workloads

In my opinion, Active Data Guard is the most valuable feature. We use the secondary side for reporting purposes, which reduces the load on the primary side. Oracle Data Guard includes functions such as automatic failover, but we use manual managed failover. After some months, we converted our primary to secondary and secondary to primary. Oracle Data Guard is effective in minimizing data loss and provides a good solution for that. The main benefits of Oracle Data Guard include minimizing data loss during a production failure. It is used for maximum availability when paired with Oracle RAC, so if any disruption occurs, we have an alternative Data Guard to convert our load to the disaster recovery site. Oracle Data Guard maintains a high level of data integrity by using archive logs. When a transaction happens, redo logs create archive logs, which are then applied on the disaster recovery side, ensuring that both databases are synchronized.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"The solution is very stable."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

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"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."

"Active Data Guard has helped us a lot in achieving the real time reporting by offloading our heavy reports from Production to Standby database."

"One of the most valuable features is real-time replication. The version we're using is reliable and easy to deploy."

"We use Data Guard for online replication from data center, to data center for high availability. This is the most important feature."

"You can see how the logs are applied, check the apply time, and how far behind the standby is at any given time."

"I think for our company, the way we use it, we are very happy with it and the end customer is very happy with it."

"Another valuable feature is the possibility of backing up the database from the standby database instead of the primary database, to avoid backup process overhead in the primary system."

"Data Guard also improved because customers with an active Data Guard license want to reduce the I/O in a production environment. Some application complaints to it for Oracle reporting purposes. It has a production environment that needs to be enhanced."

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Cons

"The stability has room for improvement."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"There is an issue with their application on ODG. There were a lot of edits in the logs. Sometimes, we only get a little cue from the Data Guard Broker logs if there's an issue."

"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."

"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."

"We sometimes had scalability issues with read only."

"I think it would be great to have a graphical interface assistant (like DBCA, ASMCA, NETCA, etc.) for initial configuration, monitoring, configuring Oracle Data Guard Broker and all the Data Guard Broker commands, without needing Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed."

"A significant improvement for Oracle Data Guard would be enabling the disaster recovery site to handle read and write operations, not just data storage."

"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is open source."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"The cost is expensive."

"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"Oracle Data Guard is a feature available only in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and is available for extra cost."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	22

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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Also Known As

Carbonite Recover Backup

Active Data Guard

Overview

Carbonite Server securely replicates data to the local backup server while securing a second copy in the cloud. Granular restore and local failover options ensure rapid recovery and minimal data loss. With integrated hardware and cloud failover for critical systems, Carbonite Server provides reliable data protection.

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Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

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