We performed a comparison between IBM SoftLayer and Oracle Database Backup Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Public Cloud Storage Services."The ELT versus ETL extract, transform and load versus extract, load, and then transform, the ELT method is what really sells SoftLayer."
"The stability is the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The product works very fast. It automates a lot of operations in the background."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform encrypted backups after any learning."
"It's a scalable product."
"From the database perspective, Oracle is the best."
"Oracle Database Backup Service is an easy-to-use consolidation solution that's dashboard-driven."
"The product's most valuable features are differential and cumulative backup functionality."
"The backup is reliable and intuitive."
"Replication and performance tuning are valuable features."
"For us, the versioning was an issue."
"The interface is hard to use for us. It should be simplified."
"We cannot use the product with other brands."
"Deployment is overly complex and could be streamlined."
"The solution needs to add an archive function."
"Oracle Database Backup Service is not a cheap solution."
"We encounter issues while restoring differential and cumulative backups."
"They should base their strategy according to the country and the regulations there, and focus more on the on-premises deployment."
"The product's technical support services need improvement in terms of response time."
"The product can protect from external data penetration, but the in-house IT team can access it."
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IBM SoftLayer is ranked 22nd in Public Cloud Storage Services while Oracle Database Backup Service is ranked 14th in Public Cloud Storage Services with 10 reviews. IBM SoftLayer is rated 8.6, while Oracle Database Backup Service is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM SoftLayer writes "Stable with excellent speed and agility". 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". IBM SoftLayer is most compared with Amazon AWS, whereas Oracle Database Backup Service is most compared with Oracle Cloud Object Storage, Microsoft Azure File Storage, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) and Wasabi.
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