We performed a comparison between Oracle Database In-Memory 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 product offers high scalability."
"Security is the most valuable feature."
"The solution's ROI is excellent."
"The application development is very user-friendly."
"The scalability of the solution is very good. It's able to support large amounts of data."
"The on-premise version is stable. We have different teams and resources for the server side, for admin, and for development. We can easily take care of all the services and applications."
"Normally, every database server uses hard disks. In-Memory has a feature, apart from their database, which is very good. When we start our server, all your data needs loading memory. We can use that. It's a very good feature. I think they added this feature in 2019. We can mount memory in the partition, create partitions in there, and create table space from that spot to share. It's a really good feature. We use it a lot."
"It efficiently handles low-code data and supports read-and-write operations for clustering."
"A big advantage is the ability to store any type of data in SQL Server."
"The interface is user friendly."
"I value the ability it gives me to test on small machines and easily scale up to larger devices for live applications."
"SQL Server is easy to manage because all our DevOps team are familiar with it and simple to access because it is cloud-based."
"SQL Server's performance is fine."
"Very easy to use, and it's very democratic in the enterprise."
"It is easy to manage for the administrator. It is also easy to use for applications that are Windows-based. It is a very stable product, and it has got backup and recovery tools."
"The solution is stable. It's reliable."
"The query optimization and backup features should be added."
"The high cost of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product could be more economical."
"It would be good if Oracle could reduce downtime when transferring from non-In-Memory to In-Memory."
"The platform’s pricing needs improvement."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The pricing could be improved. It would ideal if it was more reasonable."
"They should lower the price. My customers think that it's too expensive."
"SQL Server could be more robust than one of its competitors."
"I would appreciate a dark theme for SQL Server Management Studio and ability to add databases with TDE enabled into availability groups."
"The user interface and the reporting could also be improved."
"The solution could offer better integration with other solutions - specifically Microsoft."
"Indexing, as well as integration, are areas of this product that need improvement."
"Sometimes the system hangs. Its databases should be able to deal with more data in a faster way. Its speed of processing larger amounts of information should be improved."
"It could be more stable."
"SQL Server could improve by being more user-friendly, it is still geared towards specialists. Additionally, the monitoring system is difficult to use, not everyone can use it well. The configuration should be able to be done through the GUI."
Oracle Database In-Memory is ranked 8th in Relational Databases Tools with 27 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Oracle Database In-Memory is rated 8.8, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database In-Memory writes "User friendly with great scalability but needs to move toward intelligent AI". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Oracle Database In-Memory is most compared with SAP HANA, IBM Db2 Database, Progress OpenEdge RDBMS, Apache Derby and MariaDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Database In-Memory vs. SQL Server report.
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