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Oracle Audit Vault vs Own Data Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Audit Vault
Ranking in Database Security
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Own Data Platform
Ranking in Database Security
14th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (62nd), SaaS Backup (22nd), Application Testing Services (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Database Security category, the mindshare of Oracle Audit Vault is 8.0%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Own Data Platform is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Audit Vault8.0%
Own Data Platform1.8%
Other90.2%
Database Security
 

Featured Reviews

Tapas Karmakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Technology Artchitect And Specialist at Wizertech
Auditing has become tamper-proof and now secures sensitive financial transaction data
The most useful feature of Oracle Audit Vault is its ability to ensure that audits are immutable, as mandated by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs guidelines whenever an audit is happening for a single transaction, mainly for financial transactions. It separates the Oracle databases' information that is being audited and stores it in a separate location where no user has access, including the Oracle Audit Vault admin, ensuring that no one can change or modify that particular record, providing utmost security. User activity reports in Oracle Audit Vault are fantastic, informative, and specific. When a user makes any changes, both the pre-change values and the post-change values are captured and presented to the auditors perfectly, showing what the particular column had before and after the update, along with the user who made the change and the time of the change. Regarding automated policy enforcement in Oracle Audit Vault, I have experience with it, and I find it very important. Oracle Audit Vault fully supports compliance management for companies, with no doubt about its capability to maintain compliance from both audit and security threat perspectives. The correlation engine in Oracle Audit Vault is effective. It includes a data firewall as part of its features, so the threat mechanism allows users to block, snip, and capture all threats happening in the network.
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Salesforce Consultant at Girikon LLCGirikon
Efficient data management with robust restore feature and room for improved anonymization
We manage the customizing and seeding parts for our customers, using Own Data Platform to provide backup and recovery services. We work with exhibition companies that regularly expand their operations Own Data Platform provides a comprehensive backup and recovery solution, allowing us to manage…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Technical support is perfect."
"Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall."
"The setup for Audit Vault is relatively simple."
"All companies are looking to secure their data because people around the world are stealing data from IT, banks, and other companies."
"For clients the superior security, power, customizability and reasonable ease of use return in time savings and secure data."
"Oracle Database Firewall, Database Vault and Data hiding tools present a layered security approach to protecting, controlling, auditing and hiding sensitive data and access to sensitive data."
"Out-of-the-box policies ensure our compliance with standards like SOX, ISO 27001, and so on."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"The reliable backup and restoring of the Salesforce data is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature for our customers is the restore functionality."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, there is an issue with the system."
"Currently, you need two servers: one for Audit Vault and one for the firewall. If they can combine them into one server, it will be great because it is costly to have two servers. It will also make its installation easier. I have heard that in the new version, there will be only one server for both."
"We constantly have stability issues."
"In the previous version, when the aud$ and fga_log$ tables reached a certain size, the collectors sometimes shut down and it took too long to get reports from the AV console, so it was not working in a stable manner."
"This solution doesn't audit the network."
"I hear from many people that say IBM Guardian is better than Oracle Audit Vault when it comes to performance. IBM Guardian works transparently in the database, but Oracle Audit Vault consumes some ratios on the server."
"We did encounter some stability issues."
"The underlying mechanism for collecting SQL statements (REDO collector) is still based on Oracle Streams technology."
"The anonymization feature can be improved."
"There is need to do the same for the other SaaS applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle can be an expensive solution depending on the options and user needs."
"For the bank, the license was $48,000 last time. That was the licensing for the bank on just one license."
"This solution is definitely not expensive, and it is a small fraction of the overall database licensing costs."
"The licensing cost is about $360,000, annually."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise11
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Audit Vault?
I don't know anything about the pricing aspect, as that is usually handled by my boss, Eric. Mr. Eric handles all procurement, licensing, and agreements with the clients.
What needs improvement with Oracle Audit Vault?
In terms of potential areas of improvement for Oracle Audit Vault, I have raised two observations to Oracle. One observation concerns the alert mechanism that sometimes sends false alerts, such as ...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Audit Vault?
My team and I have handled projects for banks and production companies, where security concerns were major. We implemented Oracle Audit Vault where auditing the infrastructure data was required, al...
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Also Known As

Audit Vault
Own Data Archiving, Own Data Security, Own Data Seeding
 

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Sample Customers

Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Educational Testing Service, Ryohin Keikaku Co. Ltd., SPC Brasil, REDISA, Qatar Olympic Committee, Seneca College, Hunan Social Insurance Management and Service Bureau,
Workiva, HR Owen, Tommy Bakama, Kanshoo, NTN, Athena Health, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Arizona State University, Pauley Financial
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