Oracle Database Reviews

The most valuable feature is security; you do not lose information.

As a result of using the Oracle Database, users are confident that the information is correct. It doesn't get corrupted, it doesn't get lost, and you can always access it and find it. Before clients used the Database, they used spreadsheets and needed to do a lot of crosschecking between documents to see if operations were valid. After starting with the database and realizing that the information there is always correct, teams start to be more productive, since they don’t have to spend that time crosschecking.

We've been using it for more than ten years and it really works well.

It never crashes, so we can have it running for months. It's amazing for the customer because they don't even know it's running. After some time, they forget that there is a database behind them.

We have clients that started with one user and now are running up to 200 users. It’s the same version with bigger hardware. It’s amazing the way the database can scale.

Usually response is very good. We have had to escalate issues a few times, but normally it’s fixable.

It doesn't matter which version you are using or how you deploy it. It will have the same scripts and the same configuration, regardless of size and complexity.

We have compared it with Microsoft and IBM, and this is a ten out of ten.

It helps us to manage and run the company.

As a developer, I use the reporting side. We need a better reporting tool with some kind of data warehouse capability. We are happy with the product, though, and are just looking for new features. Most of the time we end up using any additional features they provide.

We have used the product for twelve years.

It has been stable for all of our twelve years of use. We don’t have much downtime. The product is really good.

It meets our scalability requirements right now.

We are quite happy with the support we get.

We haven’t experienced any problems regarding product upgrades. We follow a very systematic approach so that we don’t have downtime.

We are a big company, and we are satisfied. I think it is a good product. I would give it an eight out of ten.

You can do just about anything with Oracle Database.

We use it for everything. We have our students, HR, payroll and financial all in one database.

We use a third party software called illusion banner on top of the customization that we have, so we wait for their improvements or do customization ourselves.

I have been using the product for 14 years. I started with Oracle 7.

I have never had an issue with stability.

It needs to be scaled based on how you're using the app.

I have reported few bugs. They do good job, and there are often solutions available on the Internet.

We have downtime during upgrades that can last from hours to days. The last database update took two or three days.

All I can say is to trust Oracle. I would rate it a ten out of ten.

Oracle Database helps you store and root through data as fast as possible, which is really valuable to our organization. In addition, while I can do everything I would like to with the product, if there is something that is not possible in the current version, you can build your own features.

The expansiveness of the Oracle Database has been beneficial. You can find more than you could ever think of in the product, which increases business efficiencies by returning information to you quickly and allowing you to do work in the database that you would otherwise have to do in a different application.

The product could have more persistent data types, like Boolean and the simple features in MySQL and most databases.

It is so stable that I have this mantra: “If you have not crushed the server you have not been trying hard enough.” I have not crushed it in a long while. It is really stable.

It scales very well.

It is pretty good. They always ask the same questions about log files, so since we already know what they are going to be asking, it’s pretty fast. Most of the time they come up with solutions really quickly.

Do as much as you can in the database. It is the fastest product you can have, when working with data. The product is an eight out of ten.

The most valuable feature is the high concurrency in terms of transactions. The second most valuable feature is that from a diagnostic performance standpoint, I can tell exactly what is going on. It is really good at helping to solve problems.

The organizational improvements go back to the high concurrency. There are a lot of database products out there, but it is difficult to have a lot of simultaneous actions from a business perspective in the database. They have to happen very fast, and Oracle just shines at that.

I would like Oracle to instrument the CPU consumption of Oracle sessions. Right now I can tell how much CPU Oracle consumes, but I have no idea what it's doing when it's consuming the CPU. I can infer that, but I don't have the authority that I would like to when I speak about it.

We have been using the product since 1989.

It’s a software product, so there are some bugs. When I have issues, they tend to be from an unusual or intense workload that is stressing the system.

It rocks. You can tweak Oracle so it will use up all available computing resources. That's powerful. That way, you can use your investment and your capacity.

You always have to be careful about stability when applying patches. A patch could fix one thing but hurt something else, so you really have to be conscientious and do your homework first.

You need to get a good overall understanding before you drill down. There is too much to learn, so get a basic fundamental understanding and then let the problems guide you in learning more.

Usability is the biggest value of Oracle Database.

Compared to the previous version, this version has really improved in terms of the speed.

We want Oracle to specify the differences between the two versions, the former version and the newer version and how it is linked. 

Not only with one version differences but older versions as well since there are people who are using much older versions. If they are able to clarify what the difference is between the latest one and those older versions, and if they are able to offer us the easier method for the migration, then we would appreciate it.

Even if we encounter any problems, then there's a strong definition of how we are able to improve the situation and resolve the situation. We are able to do the backup beforehand by referring to those defined resolutions from the Oracle, and if we are able to have the two systems, then even if one fails, we are able to use the other one, so we are able to prevent problems.

In comparison to other more simple structure databases, I consider the Oracle Database to be more scalable, as well as easiness to export from an external system.

For people who are thinking about introducing Oracle Databases - they need to have knowledge beforehand about how to operate the databases in terms of security, and how to respond to the failures.

There are many use cases for the Oracle Database and if I encounter any problems, there's information available which I can reference.

We are the ones who are developing the system and delivering it to our customers, so it does indirectly benefit our organization from this perspective. The fact that we are able to leverage the available information that I mentioned earlier, means we are able to make sure that development is successful.

The response speed of the support as well as lowering the price.

In comparison with other commercial databases, it's more stable but there are many challenges that we feel should be corrected.

For us, there are not so many cases that require scalability.

I think it takes longer because we're in Japan and if we have a problem then we need to pass the information to the US and it takes them time to respond.

Relatively speaking it's easy.

Oracle is the number one product I recommend as long as the customer has sufficient budget.

I'm not using a lot of different Oracle Database functions, but for us, the fact that they have a documentation in Japanese is quite important. It's quite easy for us to find what we want to do. We wish that the community in the Japanese language would become more activate in the future.

The benefit that we get from using the Oracle Database is the sense of security or the stability.

Others would be better fit to answer this, but I hope that the product will improve in terms of usability (user-friendliness).

After the release we need to do a performance tuning, so we need to figure out what we can do for the visualization for the performance tuning. We wish that Oracle could offer this as a product so that we are able to easily start using it. 

No, but I was involved partially when we developed the environment of the Oracle Database. At that time I had the impression that it was not so difficult, it was rather smooth.

We compared it to other competitors. In the end, the end-user is the one to select which product they want to use. What we can offer is that in terms of the security or in terms of the share, how many companies are using it, which big names are using the Oracle product?