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."It's easy to use and works great."
"You can scale the solution as needed."
"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"
"The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"Multitenant has a container database with many pluggable databases."
"Maintaining databases is a valuable feature for us."
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"It is quite reliable in cluster configurations and has helped me to reduce downtime and improve SLAs."
"We have found the solution to be scalable."
"SQL Server is an inexpensive solution. I recommend it if the project isn't sensitive. SQL is similar to Oracle and integrates well with tools in the cloud environment. The difference is that Oracle is for data solutions where there is replication and moderation."
"The product's initial setup phase was simple."
"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 most valuable feature of SQL Server is that it is easy to set up."
"We found it to be quite scalable."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The user interface for this solution can be made better."
"This solution is a bit complicated when collecting from containers - that feature should be a bit better."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"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."
"It would be beneficial to include this solution with Oracle Enterprise, but Oracle charges additional fees for it."
"In terms of what could be improved, everything on-premise is now moving to the cloud. Obviously SQL Server has also moved, because Microsoft Excel has its own cloud called Azure Finance. Every solution comes with its own advantages and disadvantages."
"More things in SQL Server need to be automated."
"Microsoft doesn't have active-active load balancing scenarios. It's always a failover cluster."
"Performance could be improved. There could be more support to PHP-based websites and to providing direct plugins for connections, and the related services or application services could be improved."
"SQL Server could integrate better with other platforms."
"I would like to see the database become fully automated."
"Although I am satisfied with the solution, some clients have asked us to resolve technical issues, such as those involving silver solution and replication."
"For small-scale businesses, Microsoft could improve by removing some limits in SQL Express."
Oracle Multitenant is ranked 16th in Relational Databases Tools with 15 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 259 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