Oracle Data Guard Review

We've experienced no issues with performance.

What is most valuable?

We use it for backing up our data, so from the standby instance.

What needs improvement?

Data Guard has been around for a very long time and a lot of big companies are using it. I don't see that it needs any improvement or anything like that. I think it's pretty solid.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using it for more than 15 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We've experienced no issues with performance.

How is customer service and technical support?

When you open up SR Oracle has a list of things which they ask for. Being an end customer, when we open SR, we give as much as information as we want and again the support person comes into the picture, and without reading what we have put through, they just has the same question over and over. What version, what product, all that kind of things, which is not at all fair.

What other advice do I have?

It’s the backbone. Nobody interacts with it, it's only the DBAs who use it I think. Once you set it up it's pretty much done. You don't deal with it on a daily basis.

Maybe not all products are up to the speed or like any product you take, there is space to improve. I think for our company, the way we use it, we are very happy with it and the end customer is very happy with it.

**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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author avatarRita Nuñez
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I agree with you, it never degrades performance in the Primary Database, quite the contrary, it downloads the load that generates backups because it is done from the standby.

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Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution.
Technical support is very good. If at any time we write a ticket, we get the appropriate answer on time.
We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive.
The solution is really very stable. One good thing about it, compared to other products, is that you can just run it and forget about it. Unless you come across some interruptions in the network, it works like a charm.
The solution has been stable so far.
The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes.
It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based.
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