We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"The backup capabilities are quite good."
"The updates are the most valuable feature."
"We have used many of the Linux-based operating systems for production purposes, but this is the only solution that guarantees performance and scalability. When we run industry servers, they demand high performance."
"Because most databases run on Linux, that's what makes this solution so important. If you install a Unix system and want to use a database, you won't have to say, 'I can't find any database to run on this.'"
"The solution's use of Kubernetes as an internal or core process on the system is brilliant."
"It is a stable solution."
"One of the most valuable aspects is the ease of installing packages on the server."
"Its security is the most valuable. It is very stable and has many features. It also has good performance. Some of our clients were using Windows servers and products. I suggested Red Hat Linux to them and described the features. They switched to it, and they really loved it. There were around 50 servers in my last company, and they switched all those servers from Windows to Red Hat. I used to manage those servers."
"OpenShift is the most valuable feature because it can be used to create applications on the fly."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"Scaling can be complicated and has room for improvement."
"We need to have more flexibility on the developed versions. Not everybody is ready to subscribe to enterprise versions. They would like to test the tool without subscriptions."
"The performance component is available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but we need to maintain the dashboard on-premises, which requires us to switch between systems instead of performing all tasks from a single location."
"The solution should improve its documentation."
"When we initially began working with containers, we encountered some challenges with compatibility."
"The solution lacks proper documentation."
"The cost of this solution could be improved."
"The product lags a bit behind in the market."
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Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 47 reviews while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ranked 1st in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 167 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.8, while Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) writes "Highly stable, good knowledge base, and reasonable price". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 10, CentOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, whereas Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Windows Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows 10 and openSUSE Leap. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) report.
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