Oracle Data Guard vs Quorum OnQ comparison

Oracle and Quorum are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Oracle is ranked #24 with an average rating of 9.3, while Quorum is ranked #41 with an average rating of 8.3. Oracle holds a 0.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to Quorum’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Quorum users who would recommend it.

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Oracle Data Guard and Quorum OnQ are two robust disaster recovery solutions. Quorum OnQ seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of use and quick recovery times.

Features: Oracle Data Guard offers strong replication, rolling upgrades, and high performance but has a complex management interface. Quorum OnQ features automated testing, instant recovery, and user-friendly efficiency, leading due to its intuitive design.

Room for Improvement: Oracle Data Guard needs a more intuitive interface, better integration with other systems, and simplified management tools. Quorum OnQ could improve its reporting capabilities, expand support for more platforms, and enhance its documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Oracle Data Guard is complex to set up, requiring skilled professionals, but offers excellent customer support. Quorum OnQ is noted for its simple deployment process and responsive support team, standing out in deployment and service.

Pricing and ROI: Oracle Data Guard is expensive with a significant upfront investment, though it delivers solid ROI in critical data environments. Quorum OnQ is seen as more cost-efficient, providing quicker ROI due to its efficiency and reduced management costs.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Quorum OnQ

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

41st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (35th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (24th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Quorum OnQ is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Quorum OnQ	0.7%
Other	98.4%

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AbdulHameed

Assistant Vice President at ZTBL

Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss

Oracle Data Guard stands out by providing heavy-duty features that enable connecting multiple standby databases to a single production database. Oracle supports up to eight standby databases, offering a level of redundancy and scalability that other platforms cannot match. Implementing Oracle Data Guard ensures the protection and integrity of your data, even in the event of a disaster. With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations. Data Guard offers multiple protection modes, each serving different needs. One such mode is active-active, where both the production and standby databases are actively accessible. In the event of a failure, seamless switchover occurs without disrupting client sessions, as they remain unaware of the transition between databases.

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reviewer2594778

Senior Application Analyst at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees

Enhanced filtering for advocate emails

Quorum provides an elevated ability to filter on everything from people's location to age to their voting history. This is an extreme feature that will help our advocacy department a lot. It encompasses the ability to formulate emails and calls to action across regions. Their platform is more advanced than our previous one. It provides a smooth training experience and easy terminology for those in the advocacy world.

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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

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

"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."

"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."

"The solution has been stable so far."

"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."

"With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations."

"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."

"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

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"Quorum OnQ has a good ransomware protection feature, and customer service and support were very good."

"The solution is very cost effective."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ease of use."

"The change in the way that Quorum processes data has made a tremendous improvement in backup and replication times. While the familiar interface remains, the underpinnings have been finely tuned and the speed is incredible. My large Exchange Server went from 5- to 6-hour backups down to 22 minutes."

"One of the most valuable features was the usability, since many of the features were very straightforward. The backup and restoration process was also very fast. Although we weren't able to fully test the scenarios, one of the features was that we could have it restored on a remote site. However, since we were on-prem, we weren't able to test the remote site restoration."

"The most valuable feature of Quorum OnQ is quick recovery."

"The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

"From a disaster-recovery point of view, one of the things I really like is that I can test the virtual copy of the physical server on a test network and compare the servers side-by-side, without interfering with the production network. So I can see and make sure that the latest copy of the server is the physical copy of the server, without interfering with production."

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Cons

"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."

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

"The deployment cost is expensive."

"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."

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

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

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

"The implementation is complex for anyone who's jumping into it without any experience. It's all command-line driven implementations. For some, that's a turn-off."

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"I would really like it if they followed comparable products from other vendors and had an option where you could offload to tape. I know it sounds incredibly antiquated, but the benefit I see is that there would be a better air gap than you have with backing up to an online source."

"They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive."

"The price is high and could be more competitive."

"It would be beneficial if file culling could be more granular."

"I would like to see iSCSI support added so that NAS storage servers could be protected. We heavily utilize NAS storage and the risk there is minimal backup options. Currently, we are backing up NAS to NAS which is costly and slow. Being able to integrate NAS server backup would be the last item on my Quorum bucket list."

"Lacks compatibility in terms of supporting other OS."

"They need integration with other platforms."

"One thing that could be done to improve it would be a single pane of glass for doing disaster recovery testing, where I could have remote consoles in one place... I still have to go to each location in a browser and then bring up the console. I'd like to see them integrate that into a single pane of glass so I don't have to go to each server."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 licensing cost is significantly high."

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

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

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

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

"The cost is expensive."

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"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."

"We have never questioned whether it is worth it because it so obviously is a great value."

"Quorum OnQ can be described as a medium-priced product...There are no ingress and egress charges in the product."

"I am not sure how much it costs, but I know it's expensive."

"The total for our current solution's licensing is about $14,000 for 12 servers for three years."

"The solution’s pricing is economical."

"The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."

"The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

11%

Performing Arts

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	19
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

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

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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What do you like most about Quorum OnQ?

It is a very scalable solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quorum OnQ?

It's a little expensive. That said, the cost aligns with other advocacy tools we have evaluated.

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What needs improvement with Quorum OnQ?

They have radio buttons that allow multiselection, which is not intuitive. Also, the URL for our environments is the same, making it confusing for management when handling different departments wit...

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Overview

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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Quorum onQ is the global leader in 1-click instant recovery, providing full immediate recovery of your critical systems after any storage, system or site failure. It does this by automatically maintaining up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of your physical and virtual servers stored on a dedicated appliance – clones that will transparently take over for failed servers within minutes.

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