We performed a comparison between Amazon S3 Glacier and Oracle Database Backup Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Public Cloud Storage Services solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."AWS Lambda is the most valuable part of the solution because it gives you a code interface for everything."
"Data retrieval, security, compliance, and storage archiving are the most valuable features of Amazon S3 Glacier."
"The solution is stable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The data archive feature is valuable."
"Amazon S3 Glacier is a highly scalable and available solution."
"AWS does support the ability for user controlled movement of data between regions for business continuance (BC), high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)."
"The main advantage of Glacier is its low cost. It is incredibly cheaper than other storage options, especially for objects you don't access frequently. Glacier would add value if you have a staging area for objects you only need to access occasionally. Since we have data in terabytes between S3 buckets, we can significantly reduce our storage and cost footprint by using Glacier."
"The backup is reliable and intuitive."
"From the database perspective, Oracle is the best."
"Oracle Database Backup Service is an easy-to-use consolidation solution that's dashboard-driven."
"Replication and performance tuning are valuable features."
"The interface is good."
"It's a scalable product."
"The product's most valuable features are differential and cumulative backup functionality."
"The product works very fast. It automates a lot of operations in the background."
"I would like to see the retrieval time reduced."
"The solution's dashboard is a bit complicated and could be improved."
"A couple of times, we faced outage issues that caused us problems."
"The solution's pricing is too expensive and could be improved."
"The solution's cloud storage is very expensive, and users may not be able to afford cloud storage."
"The pricing is a bit expensive. There is room for improvement in costs."
"The product takes more time to secure data when the bandwidth is low."
"The response times could be faster. When you are with Amazon and use Glacier, you expect a response time between four to seven hours to retrieve the data."
"We cannot use the product with other brands."
"Oracle Database Backup Service is not a cheap solution."
"The product can protect from external data penetration, but the in-house IT team can access it."
"It's already fast, but still, they could improve the speed."
"They should base their strategy according to the country and the regulations there, and focus more on the on-premises deployment."
"Deployment is overly complex and could be streamlined."
"The solution needs to add an archive function."
"The product's technical support services need improvement in terms of response time."
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Amazon S3 Glacier is ranked 2nd in Public Cloud Storage Services with 35 reviews while Oracle Database Backup Service is ranked 13th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 10 reviews. Amazon S3 Glacier is rated 8.6, while Oracle Database Backup Service is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Amazon S3 Glacier writes "A cost-effective solution to reduce storage and cost footprint". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Backup Service writes "A backup solution for data storage and restoration with point-in-time recover". Amazon S3 Glacier is most compared with Google Cloud Storage Nearline, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage and Wasabi, whereas Oracle Database Backup Service is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System). See our Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Oracle Database Backup Service report.
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