Oracle Data Guard vs Veritas NetBackup Appliance comparison

Oracle and Veritas are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Oracle is ranked #24 with an average rating of 9.3, while Veritas is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0. Oracle holds a 0.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veritas’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Veritas NetBackup Appliance and Oracle Data Guard are prominent data protection solutions. Veritas NetBackup Appliance is favored for its pricing and customer support, while Oracle Data Guard stands out for its high availability and advanced features.

Features: Veritas NetBackup Appliance users value its seamless integration, scalability, and effective data deduplication. Oracle Data Guard users value its comprehensive disaster recovery capabilities, continuous data protection, and real-time data synchronization.

Room for Improvement: Veritas NetBackup Appliance needs better reporting tools, improved backup speeds, and enhanced performance. Oracle Data Guard users want enhanced automation, simpler configuration processes, and improved ease of setup.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas NetBackup Appliance is praised for straightforward, fast deployment and responsive support. Oracle Data Guard has a more complex setup but benefits from Oracle’s robust customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas NetBackup Appliance is considered cost-effective with a strong ROI due to its pricing models and perceived value. Oracle Data Guard, while more expensive, is justified by users for its advanced features and reliability, providing a high ROI.

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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

Veritas NetBackup Appliance

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

21st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (7th)

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 Veritas NetBackup Appliance is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Veritas NetBackup Appliance	0.9%
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Other	98.2%

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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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Sammy Githinji

Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited

Backup management excels with user-friendly interface and effective deduplication, offering robust data protection

Leveraging AI in Veritas NetBackup Appliance is one of the road maps now that they have done a collaboration with Cohesity, which is a feature I'm looking forward to. Using AI is one improvement I recommend for the Veritas NetBackup Appliance. They have implemented some aspects of AI for features such as malware detection and anomaly detection. I believe they can do more to give customers more insight into their data, allowing them to see it and understand what they can do, such as archiving old data. They can do more by utilizing the data effectively to provide insights to customers about their space usage, future projections, and options for managing old data.

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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 most valuable feature is the application or promotional code used in the production protocol to transfer data to the secondary database, situated on the DR site."

"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."

"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature is the flashback standby, which allows us to test without scrapping the database."

"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."

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

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"The Veritas NetBackup Appliance is convenient because it’s a portable device and doesn’t require a lot of additional hardware or licenses like VPN solutions."

"I can confidently say that I have managed more than 30 or 50 appliances over different time periods, and yet I never had a single hardware failure."

"The tool's most valuable feature is recovery."

"The most valuable features of Veritas NetBackup Appliance include extension syncing, making copies of the data, expiring images, replication, and speed."

"The benefits I have observed from working with Veritas NetBackup Appliance include the throughput of the appliance, starting from 2 to 50 terabytes per hour, which compares favorably with other competitors' products in this competitive domain."

"The documentation is okay. You are able to follow it and it is helpful."

"The most valuable feature of the Veritas NetBackup Appliance is the virtual machine backups."

"The solution is very scalable."

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Cons

"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."

"It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs."

"For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses."

"Oracle Data Guard is stable, but you need to keep monitoring the system all the time. You need to keep monitoring the archives."

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

"When the data replicates into the standby database there is a possibility of having a microsecond amount of data loss. The data loss occurs when there is a network disconnection between the primary and secondary standby database located in the data centers or if there is a crash in the primary database."

"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."

"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."

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"The graphic interface is complex, especially on the management and administrative side, requiring multiple steps for configuration instead of simple clicks in the console."

"The product should provide more AI and ML features."

"The hybrid model is not that efficient if we want to off-site data; it takes a lot of time to upload the data on a regular basis."

"The monitoring could be a bit better."

"Sometimes, the user interface doesn't work smoothly."

"Veritas NetBackup Appliance could improve the configuration, it could be more user-friendly."

"In terms of implementing the solution, it's quite technical. You need to be knowledgable in order to pull off a successful deployment."

"The price could be a bit better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a cost-effective solution."

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

"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."

"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

"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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"We pay annually. It is a huge figure for us."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a nine."

"The price of Veritas NetBackup Appliance is competitive. There are different models of Veritas NetBackup Appliance, such as perpetual licenses and subscriptions. Having the choice is good."

"There is a license required for this solution."

"The pricing for the solution's software maintenance and licensing is high."

"The solution is not cheap"

"The price of this solution is very high compared to other solutions."

"Appliances do not come cheaply."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

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	21
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	28

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

The price is slightly expensive for small and medium enterprises. If they can review the prices, we feel it would be beneficial, especially for the African market.

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What needs improvement with Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

Veritas NetBackup Appliance as a product is good, but currently the support services are weaker. Technical support and call logging support need improvement. The main issue is with technical suppor...

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What is your primary use case for Veritas NetBackup Appliance?

This requirement is based on what the customer wanted. For example, hospitality customers want Veritas NetBackup Appliance because they are familiar with the options, it is easy to use, easy to con...

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Also Known As

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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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Veritas NetBackup Appliance is a comprehensive data protection solution that combines hardware and software into a single, integrated platform. It offers scalable storage capacity, high-performance backup and recovery, and advanced deduplication technology. With its intuitive user interface and centralized management, it simplifies data protection operations and reduces administrative overhead.

The appliance supports a wide range of applications, databases, and operating systems, ensuring comprehensive protection for both physical and virtual environments. It also provides seamless integration with cloud storage, enabling organizations to leverage the benefits of hybrid cloud backup.

With its robust security features and built-in resiliency, the Veritas NetBackup Appliance ensures the integrity and availability of critical data, making it an ideal choice for businesses of all sizes.

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