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."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"
"Multitenant has a container database with many pluggable databases."
"You can scale the solution as needed."
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"It's easy to use and works great."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"Tuning Advisor suggests where to add indexes and from where to remove them. It works like an adviser."
"I have found the whole solution with all its features wonderful."
"SQL Server is similar to other Microsoft products, such as BI, they are easy to use. You do not need to have an expensive BD to maintain them. All the useful intuitive features you find in Microsoft solutions you will find in SQL Server."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"can extract data from the server and store it in a local data source for BI purposes."
"It's more user-friendly than most databases."
"SQL Server scales well."
"It is a simple query language. It is consistent across all versions. If you start with an older version, move to the newer version. The same code will still work."
"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."
"Technical support could be faster."
"This solution is a bit complicated when collecting from containers - that feature should be a bit better."
"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"It would be beneficial to include this solution with Oracle Enterprise, but Oracle charges additional fees for it."
"The user interface for this solution can be made better."
"Scalability of the database could be improved if it could handle increased volumes of data."
"The price could be better. It costs a lot, and competing databases like Postgres are free."
"There should be more security updates for the product."
"I would like to see improvements made to the stability of SQL Server, as well as more analytics requirements."
"It would be nice if there was a feature to search for a specific value across multiple tables. This would save a lot of time for its users."
"It is very costly, and that's the reason people are moving away from SQL Server."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing for SQL Server."
"Analysis services have a lot of room for improvement. Basically, manageability on the available tools. They should have improved them already. They are not very efficient. My main headache is with the analysis service, and it would be really good if Microsoft developed some additional tools that are more user-friendly to manage the analysis. This is both from the perspective of management, users' roles, and performance analysis. My main wish for SQL Server would be that management tools for analysis services grow and mature a bit."
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, SAP HANA and MariaDB, 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