Oracle Database as a Service Reviews

We use the solution for different projects. One is our ERP project. One we are using for billing purposes for a billing project. However, we later migrated that. We also use it for payment systems. We've used it for two or three projects.

In terms of technicality, Oracle is very good. However, in terms of licensing, it comes at a very high cost. They should have worked on a costing basis. 

It's a very robust database product. It has more capabilities like object storage, file-level storage, and database. The activity redundancy in the database is great. There is DCDR replication. It also has a GUI interface, so we can get the dashboard capabilities and can manage and monitor some things in the database from that GUI interface.

The solution is stable.

It is scalable. 

Technical support has been great.

It doesn't have an in-built database load balancer, like a database proxy and a database firewall. It should provide this feature also, the database load balancing.

The deployment is complex. 

We used the solution for almost seven years.

It is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. The performance is good. 

I have found that the solution is scalable. 

We have 100 or so users. For the databases, we are using them for more transactions, like 50 or 60 more for all the transactions we are getting with our system.

At this point, we do not have plans to increase usage. 

The solution has good technical support. We find them to be helpful and responsive. 

Positive

I have used a different solution prior to Oracle. I can't recall the name of the product, however. 

The initial setup is very complex. It's not exactly straightforward. 

We only need three people to handle the deployment. That includes one technician and two DB admins.

We had help from Oracle with the setup.

We have not really seen an ROI since the product is so expensive. 

The product comes with a perpetual license with the per socket license. You have the sockets in your server, and you have to pay for them. However, the licensing cost is very dynamic. It depends upon your license provider or the Oracle product manager. The cost depends upon that.

It's a very expensive product.

There may be an open-source option. However, Oracle has proprietary features. Still, it is quite costly in terms of the environment.

I'd recommend potential new users work on their licensing and requirements before procuring the Oracle licenses. They need to manage their ATS cost also in future plans if they're planning for two years or more. They should take care of this ATS part also and decide what their requirements are so they can get a good discount on that.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

The primary use case of this solution is to manage enterprise customer data.

The most valuable features are the free tools provided to make the solution more secure.

The solution can be improved by reducing the pricing, making the deployment less complex, and increasing security.

I have been using the solution for three years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

The tech support is responsive and helps get the issues resolved swiftly. 

Positive

Previously to using this solution I used Microsoft SQS and switched over based on suggestions from the employees.

The initial setup is moderate to complex.

The implementation was completed through a vendor.

The solution is based on an annual fee.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

We have around seven people using the solution in our organization.

The solution is expensive but I do recommend it to others.

I work in the data cloud, mostly with big data machines.

The stability is quite good.

It's a scalable product.

We found the setup for the cloud to be quite straightforward.

Technical support is great.

It's one of the best databases. It has a lot of features, which makes it easy to manage, easy to run, and offers the best performance. Everything is there. It's good to use.

In such a heavy product, there's always some level of improvement needed. 

On the cloud services, they need to improve some console-level items, including the logging of the databases on the console level.

I've been using the solution for 12 years. 

The solution is stable. The performance is good. It's reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

It scales quite nicely as necessary.

We have multiple customers using the solution. We have 20 people on our end handling admin duties. We have thousands of people using it as customers. 

We have had a good experience with technical support.

Positive

The solution is easy to set up if you're talking about the cloud. It's always very straightforward. It's not complex or difficult. 

I'd rate the ease of implementation 4.5 out of five. 

The cost of the solution varies. It depends on which features you plan to use, for example, or which specific solution.

I'd rate the price a three out of five in terms of affordability.

If you are a developer or you have developers to develop items in Oracle, then you should go with Oracle. If not, then definitely go for something else. Oracle is very vast and the performance is good, however, you need some knowledge. 

Potential new users should take some time to compare other databases together. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

In general, it's for our billing systems and for customers and customer service.

We have the ability to build several solutions to according to the requirements of our users.

It is easy to set up.

The solution scales well.

It is stable and reliable. 

Performance always is an important issue. The product must improve its performance.

I've been using the solution for five years. 

The stability has been great. We don't have bugs or glitches. It is reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze.

Of course, we could always use better performance. 

So far, we have found the solution to be scalable.

We have 1,000 people directly and 50,000 people indirectly using the solution. 

Technical so far has been pretty good. 

The solution has a straightforward setup. It is not complex or difficult. 

We have a corporate license. I'm just using it. I don't have the details in terms of exact cost.

I'm just a customer. 

I use the on-premises and the as-a-service versions. 

I'd advise those considering the solution to first be careful to design it before beginning. 

I'd rate the product ten out of ten overall. 

As a service provider I implemented the on-premises solution with logic and KBM for thirty customers in Columbia. 

I am now migrating customers from on-premises to the solution's PaaS cloud. We use data for a TMR that is like a SaaP and connects with the cloud. 

Our certifications in Oracle Database are good because we don't have many certified resources in Columbia. Oracle helps with credits for savings on customer implementations and has a nice partner ecosystem. 

The solution's scalability and flexibility are very good and implementation is easy. 

The solution needs more certifications for other products and applications because migration to the cloud is difficult without them.

The solution currently uses GoldenGate for disaster recovery plans and I'd like the option for a different database such as SQL Server, MySQL, or MariaDB. 

I have been using the solution for four years. 

The solution is very stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

It is sometimes hard to communicate with support due to language barriers and I would appreciate multilingual technical support. I rate support a nine out of ten. 

Positive

The setup is easy for our engineers.

Our company has three engineers and fifty users who handle implementations. 

For on-premises, a perpetual license is a standard $17,500 plus 22% for one year of support. 

The solution is the most secure database in the world. I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

Our primary use case for this Oracle solution is as the repository for applications developed in-house. I'm a software and integration architect and we are customers of Oracle. 

I like that the solution is easy to onboard. There's no database on-premise that requires installation from scratch. Without the serverless option, installation is a very complicated process. It requires hardware as well as DBAs, operating system, and network administrators. With Database as a Service, you can be up and running the same day.

Although we do not need to set up our own indexes, because the solution internally improves the queries, when we migrate to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost. The solution doesn't provide an option for migrating the index optimization to another instance.

I've been using this service for nearly three years.

The solution is stable. 

I believe it is scalable although we haven't had the opportunity to do that yet. 

We have the Oracle Support Subscription and they have been helpful. We also have Advanced Customer Services from Oracle.

We have set up the solution numerous times and it has been very easy.

I recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

I use the solution to store data.

Oracle is the best database in the world. Everything about it is great.

The product is very expensive.

I have been using the solution for 27 years.

The solution is very stable.

The solution is very scalable. We have three distributed systems. At each site, more than 100 people use the solution.

We contact support for partitioning and indexing.

Installing DB as a service is very straightforward. If we have to install it on-premise, we need a DPA.

It doesn't take long to deploy the solution. The time taken for deployment depends upon the location of deployment. If it is a remote area, it can take a few hours. On a local site, it can be done very quickly.

We deployed the solution in-house. The deployment process starts with installation and choosing your language and other settings. If we are working on development, we can create the tables. However, if we deploy for live testing, we export and import without the data.

We have seen an ROI on the solution.

The pricing depends on the operating systems and VMs we use.

I am using the latest version of the solution. I will recommend the solution to others. We have deployed the solution in Louisiana, Syria, and all over Africa. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The solution’s new version, Exadata, is good for managing enterprise workloads. It is number one in terms of performance. The solution is also good with sharding concepts.

I like the solution’s performance and real application concepts.

I would like to see improvements in the license cost. The solution is subscription-based for PaaS services. You need to buy your own authorized license.

I have been working with the solution for more than 20 years.

I would rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten since it is stable.

The solution is scalable and I would give a rating of ten out of ten for its scalability. We have more than 100 customers for the solution.

The solution’s setup is straightforward and doesn’t take more than a day to complete. The steps for the solution’s deployment include purchasing the tenancy and provisioning the database as per the license which you have purchased.

Customers need to pay extra costs for the solution based on their scope and business.

I would rate the solution a ten on ten. Anyone looking to implement the solution should be mindful of the sizing since it affects the licensing and AMC support. I would suggest customers to try the subscription-based pricing model rather than the optimized licensing one.