We performed a comparison between Oracle Multitenant and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"Multitenant has a container database with many pluggable databases."
"Maintaining databases is a valuable feature for us."
"The database becomes pluggable. Inside this container is called a pluggable database and each application contains this pluggable database inside Multitenant. We can then share resources like control files, memory, etc. This lets you stop and start each application without impacting the others. This resource sharing is the most valuable feature"
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"You can scale the solution as needed."
"It's easy to use and works great."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"It's a good option for those that have a lot of Microsoft solutions in use."
"SSAS is the most interesting feature to organize the data and let the users play with it."
"The solution is valuable because it seamlessly extracts reports and enables the collection of information from different tables."
"The solution is easy to use, has rich feature sets, and is business-oriented."
"The most valuable features of SQL Server are the speed, great support, and it is from a known vendor."
"The support from Microsoft has been good."
"The initial setup is easy, flawless."
"It's a good learning environment, it's easy enough to learn and understand. Anybody that picks up the language early on will be able to develop in it."
"It would be beneficial to include this solution with Oracle Enterprise, but Oracle charges additional fees for it."
"This solution is a bit complicated when collecting from containers - that feature should be a bit better."
"Technical support could be faster."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"That said, Oracle in general doesn't invest in their UI for any of their applications. If we're talking about the dashboard or other user experience, there is room for improvement. I'm talking about on premises. The cloud version has started to improve."
"The user interface for this solution can be made better."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"Security is an issue."
"Our biggest problem with SQL Server is latency. The communication between the cloud and the on-premises environment is slow. The data needs to be encrypted for security, and you have to exchange data certificates between environments. You can adjust the configuration to improve performance, but it would be nice if SQL Server had some templates to resolve problems."
"Something that could be improved is the cost because it's very high. That's the only thing I'm concerned about but the technology is good."
"Debugging from the debugger tool functionality should be enhanced."
"The way SQL Server pivots data could be improved. For example, I would like built-in comma-separated pivot and unpivot functions."
"Security is an area that can be improved."
"The agility of the non-SQL-based features is relevant on the market."
"SQL Server could improve by having better usability or user guidance."
Oracle Multitenant is ranked 16th in Relational Databases Tools with 15 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Oracle Multitenant is rated 8.4, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Multitenant writes "Databases are automatically upgraded and cloning of pluggable databases requires just one command ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Oracle Multitenant is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database and SAP HANA, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Multitenant vs. SQL Server report.
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Hi Akin,
First, both DBs manage your relational data on several operating systems (Linux, Windows Server, ...) and as Cloud Services. The newer architecture of Oracle tries to support you in a mixed environment where you can distribute a large DB over your own servers and cloud services. But as we always saw in the past, if a new feature of Oracle is good, Microsoft will follow.
So your main questions should be:
-How big is your DB? The bigger, the more I suggest Oracle.
-Are you in a mixed world (Cloud and your own servers)? If Cloud is Azure, I think SQL Server is a good choice.
-Is the price a topic? The liscence rules of Oracle are sometimes complicated.
Hope this helps a little.
Hi Martin, it is no marketing rumor.
Oracle is the number one in terms of big databases and scalability. But as I wrote, Microsoft is always one step behind.
So if the price is no question and you need the best on the market, Oracle is the choice. But to use the full power, you need someone who knows how to plan and set up the whole environment!
The planning starts with a look at your amount of data, the decision of what response time is necessary, what is the yearly increase of the data,...
I worked on a project with several million transactions a day and we tested Oracle and Microsoft with this result: Oracle was the better. But we must use a lot of tuning features of Oracle and optimize the hardware environment for this task. Shortly, Oracle has a lot of 'screws' to tune, but if you don't know exactly what to turn on, it will fail.
But it is similar to SQL Server. Additional hardware is often not the solution.
Hi Akin,
Without going into the technical details; did you have a look a the pricing of MSSQL and Oracle databases?
I always hear that the Oracle database is better than MS SQL. But I never got to test this myself.
What I do know is that when I tell a customer the Oracle pricing, they are usually going in another direction.
You must have a very good functional reason to go for Oracle considering the price difference. As @Patric Gehl suggested: a very big database is good but for a good reason.
Kind regards,
Martin Zwarthoed