Oracle Database In-Memory Reviews

Oracle has a lot of features embedded. In my opinion, Oracle In-Memory offers a lot of improvements in database performance specially for data warehouses and analytics workloads. Combined with Exadata, it makes a solution that will deliver the best performance related to the volume of data.

As I’m very involved in database security, I can tell say that Advanced Security Option and Database Vault are most valuable features for me because I can propose them to my customers to deliver the best security options for their databases.

Each time I've implemented the In-Memory option, the improvements have been on the performance side. This option offers a way to drastically reduce batch duration with a minimum of work because we only need to enable it on columns we choose, test batch performance, and that’s it. We can do this cycle of work less than 10 times and the job is completed.

They need to improve the Decision Support System with analytics workloads.

I've used Oracle Database since 2001, and I officially used the In-Memory option since its general availability in June 2014. But, as I’ve been a beta tester for the Oracle version that delivered this option, I can say that I've used it since the beginning of 2014.

There have been no issues deploying it.

The product is stable. Of course, at this level of software, there are always some bugs. But, each time I have had to implement it, the bugs weren’t very problematic and I've always found a patch or a workaround.

It scales to the needs of my customers.

Technical support is useful with the My Oracle Support website. But when I have to open a service request, I have to find a solution on my own because technical support usually doesn't understand my problem or they always ask for the same logs, same questions, and I ultimately waste my time.

I tested the In-Memory equivalent in DB2 or SQL Server 2014, but they both have limitations in their uses. SAP HANA is one of the most concurrent of Oracle’s solution, but I have never used it.

The deployment was very easy because we just have to set a volume of memory as the In-Memory area, and the enable In-Memory for specific columns. This part is longer, but for me, it’s more a tuning issue than a deployment issue. Deploying Oracle In-Memory is very easy and takes only a few minutes.

Implementing Oracle In-Memory is very easy, but the tuning phase is mandatory to optimize it.

The most valuable features are the performance and speed.

The key thing for us is that we can meet our customer SLAs because of the performance and the response time we get.

The second thing is, personally, being a database person, I like Oracle Database In-Memory because of the backing of the support. If something goes wrong, I can call support anytime. That's one of the key reasons.

A lot of new technologies have been coming in to the market in recent years. For example, SPARC, and other analytics languages. Most of the legacy databases don’t have that good connections or connectors to those. It's still a challenge to efficiently use them. I don't know about small data, but we have large data. Especially, if you have a large data, then it's not very efficient. We don't have the tweaks to buffer it or stream it properly. Those are the kinds of things I think could be done.

Stability has been pretty OK. There have been some issues. Support was able to help us out with some configuration.

It scales well for our needs.

I've been an Oracle customer with different companies. I’ve worked with them for almost 10 years now. One of the key things that stands out for Oracle is the support, because I also work with other database vendors. That's the biggest differentiator. Even if I have some issue when I get up at 1 AM, I know I can call on support and I know I'll be able to get my problem solved.

We looked at other vendors before we started using this product, but because we were already an Oracle customer, using their database, it made sense to be in Oracle In-Memory.

I suggest looking mostly at the interfaces; that is the key. Even if the performance is good, but the interfaces are not right, to the application or to the front end, that could be an issue.

We’re really happy with Oracle Database In-Memory.

We are developers and integrators that produce software and solutions for our customers. We have a variety of customers in different industries and we have a local platform where we develop solutions based on Oracle or SQL Server. I'm the company CEO.

Security is the most valuable feature. 

The solution would be better if we could use modeling rather than coding, which is the only option currently available. I'd also like to see more integration with other tools. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

We had some technical issues last year and we emailed the company with questions. We never received a response, unfortunately. We eventually found the solution online but never received a response from the company. We are based in Iran so maybe there are some limitations in that respect. 

As with any solution, the initial stage can be complex, but after a while, it becomes easy. Relative to other solutions, the setup is not complex. 

The solution is very expensive. 

The solution provides a good environment and it's a product we trust.

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

The Oracle database is easier to program and manage, and is secure. It’s a stable, dependable product. It can handle any size database. Reliability is one of the key features necessary for a database product.

Oracle is a large company that is constantly purchasing other companies to add functionality. I think that if I want a new feature, Oracle will not listen to just me. They are marketing to a large market and not just myself.

Oracle occupies the main space in the database market. Additionally, once we put data into Oracle, it's very hard to move it out to another solution, so we have to stay with Oracle. Also, while Oracle is expensive and MySQL is free, MySQL is more difficult to use.

I’ve been using Oracle for over 10 years.

We have not had any problems with stability.

We don’t have any issues with scalability. It will meet our needs for the future.

Oracle’s technical support is good. Even if you do all the right things and the system is working well, still, sometimes something happens. Oracle is a large company and their technical support is comparable to companies of the same size.

My advice it to realize that the cost of the product itself is not the only consideration. Cost for support of the product after purchase must be considered. A decision sometimes seems quite easy to make, but you need to consider many, many aspects. Not to just say, "This is a good one." Good products cost more. They may need more maintenance and more resources for them to work properly.

The most valuable aspects of this solution are:

• Fast caching
• Improved database performance

They should lower the price. My customers think that it's too expensive. 

We have been using it for the last two to three years. 

It requires a lot of resources, man power, and DB power, to make it stable.

It is scalable. 

The initial setup is complex. They want to achieve what Oracle is offering. Oracle offers everything under one umbrella inn one offering. Whereas if I go for PostgreSQL I have to buy a small component separately from a third-party vendor.

I would recommend In-Memory because it is a robust and scalable RDBMS. We are able to achieve high availability.

I would rate it a nine out of ten. 

They should improve the licensing cost.

The most valuable features are its real time performance and consistency.

We are not using it for our internal systems, but rather for our customer solutions. We can provide a high standard with this solution to our customers by using such products.

We are waiting for new features in the next release.

Stability is very good.

Scalability is also very good.

Technical support from Oracle is fantastic. We have been working with Oracle very closely and we are very satisfied with their performance.

We had started to use this solution from the beginning. We haven't switched from another solution. When selecting a vendor, we want someone who has a long term road map. This demonstrates sustainability.

The initial setup was not complex. It was no problem at all and it was straightforward.

We haven't used other vendors. We have a long relationship with Oracle and we have had a good experience with them in the past.

I recommend using this solution, just as we are using it.

The most valuable feature of Database In-Memory is that it's really fast. We need very fast transactions that occur in the milliseconds. We've had a lot of traditional solutions that we've had to throw out, losing a lot of money in the process, in deciding to go with Database In-Memory. For us, it's proven to be very fast.

We can get analytics very, very quickly without needing to direct data to separate databases or change our applications.

It's good and it functions, but it's not the easiest add-on to Database to work with. It's still new, so hopefully it'll be improved in later versions.

We started with Database In-Memory probably a a few months ago.

We didn't have any issues deploying it.

The numbers show that it's very stable and very promising for high-transaction, low-latency systems.

We haven't needed to scale it yet in the two months we've been using it.

There was no such software for Database prior to this.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

We implemented it with our in-house team.