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Oracle Audit Vault vs Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

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
Protegrity’s Data Protectio...
Ranking in Database Security
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (34th), Data Masking (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Database Security category, the mindshare of Oracle Audit Vault is 9.3%, down from 17.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform is 3.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Audit Vault9.3%
Protegrity’s Data Protection Platform3.0%
Other87.7%
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.
Vinoth Raj Prabhakaran - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Architect at Tata Consultancy Services
Beneficial data security, good support, and straightforward initial setup
The initial setup of Protegrity Data Security was straightforward. However, we had a few problems, it's not multi-tenanted. It does not have a hierarchy of roles and differential priorities. To have the initial sandbox version of Protegrity Data Security up and running, took approximately one week. However, it needed to be set up in a resilient way because if it fails, then it is going to be a challenge bringing back the lost information. We have to be particular in terms of architecting it correctly which is taking us a bit of time. We are anticipating anywhere between four to six weeks to be finished.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Oracle Audit Vault has a lot of great features, but what I find most valuable is the database firewall."
"The solution is very stable and reliable."
"All companies are looking to secure their data because people around the world are stealing data from IT, banks, and other companies."
"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."
"This is a configuration-based product that offers you full control of the audit settings and the configurations and helps in generating all the required reports as per the compliance while even helping in customizing the reports as per your choice."
"The critical event alerts and reporting features have greatly reduced loss of man hours that would have been spent on going through the whole audit event logs."
"A powerful, flexible solution for database traffic monitoring."
"Oracle Audit Vault was used extensively and our clients are quite comfortable with it."
"The most valuable feature of Protegrity Data Security is the reduction of information being exposed."
"Its technical support team is helpful."
"The solution’s pricing is moderate."
"The product is stable."
 

Cons

"The support could improve."
"They should simplify the integration and work with different vendors and mechanisms."
"We constantly have stability issues."
"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."
"Oracle Audit Vault is very stable, with the exception of some certificate issues that disrupted the environment for up to a month."
"If you use the DB AUD$ option, you have to be careful because this table might fill up your database without any notifications."
"Stability could be improved, we have had some challenges."
"According to Oracle, the best practice is that Audit Vault Server and DB Firewall should be deployed on different boxes (servers). There is no option to co-locate them together."
"Protegrity Data Security could improve by having more integration."
"The solution's UI could be better."
"Protegrity is using a different OS which has some bugs. Sometimes it's causing an initialization error."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"For the bank, the license was $48,000 last time. That was the licensing for the bank on just one license."
"Oracle can be an expensive solution depending on the options and user needs."
"We pay for a few additional services apart from its licenses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Retailer
6%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
33%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise11
No data available
 

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?
I would like to see more control over the operating system in Oracle Audit Vault, along with easier methods to send syslog or alert logs to another monitoring tool.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Audit Vault?
Oracle Audit Vault serves as the main solution for my customers, which are banks and financial institutions, to protect their database, see audits and proactively monitor the database.
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Also Known As

Audit Vault
Protegrity Data Security
 

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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,
A $4 billion retail conglomerate and holding company
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