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Oracle
May 01 2018
What is most valuable?
* Security and Scalability * I have used Oracle technologies for last two decades apart from other similar vendors like MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, etc. * Power of Oracle combined with robust Unix platforms like Linux or AIX makes it powerful and... more»How has it helped my organization?
It helped build a strong core application layer Its a natural choice for any complex enterprise relational systemWhat needs improvement?
Support and Patching. I found MS SQL Server support more helpful in many cases where in they internally rope in technology experts from different layers rather than pushing back on the clients, something Oracle can incorporate for sure.2 comments
Microsoft
Aug 15 2017
What is most valuable?
* SQL Server Integration Services tools * Data Quality Services tools * Master Data Services tools * SQL Server Reporting Services tools * Data Partitioning (Horizontal Partitioning) tools * ColumnStore Indices * In-Memory OLTP tablesHow has it helped my organization?
We design and implement DW solutions with SS 2016 Dev Ed tools. This solution has given us high levels of productivity, which has allowed us to use an Agile approach to the design and implementation of DW solutions for our customers, and this... more»What needs improvement?
We do not have much to complain about SS 2016 Dev Ed in itself, we do have some complaints regarding licensing for SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Ed. In an emerging market like Argentina, it is very steep for our customers to pay U$S 28,000 or... more»Oracle
Feb 14 2018
What do you think of MySQL?
Primary Use Case We use MySQL and MariaDB for most part of our mission critical applications This as it is so simple to integrate with web applications, and other well known applications. • Improvements to My Organization Since it has many integrations to web applications, it is very easy to install and deploy open source web applications. • Valuable Features How it uses clustering. The API's to PHP, ruby, perl, java, python, and many more high level programming languages makes it easy for us to deploy new features fast. • Room for Improvement How to scale out with shard clusters. The way how to handle replications needs to be improved, as we noticed that there are some performance drop of (using only one core for example) • Use of Solution More than five...Oracle
Real User
Principal Global Database Architect at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 14 2016
What is most valuable?
1. The ability to create multiple databases without using any additional memory and CPU, and reallocating resources among these databases as needed, dynamically, without restarting. 2. The marriage of snapshot technology with this alleviating... more»How has it helped my organization?
Database development along several parallel projects used to be nightmarish when trying to keep the various tracks of development separate in a single database. With this, it is really easy to spin up a container for each project and then... more»What needs improvement?
The ability to integrate with every feature of Oracle Database as, for example, it doesn't currently work with Audit Vault.
Ignite Technologies
Dec 25 2017
What is most valuable?
Performance, compression, and compatibility with MySQLHow has it helped my organization?
Initially, we used a relational database, MySQL along side Hadoop to create summary tables to produce our reports. Infobright allowed us to reduce the number of moving parts and complexity that we had while providing good performance to... more»What needs improvement?
We ran into some quirks that Infobright had. We interacted with Infobright's support and were able to resolve them. There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright... more»
Apr 04 2017
What is most valuable?
Ours is a DW environment, ETL extracts data from SAP and loads into the reporting database. The DBA objective was optimal performance for both nightly batch and reporting. We used the below features which significantly helped improve he... more»How has it helped my organization?
This data is of our BI reporting. This reporting is open for all the warehouse managers to know all their financial status.The period end . We have very tight schedules. Every report has to complete in milli seconds seconds. The SLA are very... more»What needs improvement?
For some reason, the stats optimizer doesn't work well. We actually disabled some of these features, such as the optimizer adaptive features. On the fly, the optimizer actually changes the explained plan, and that feature is really not... more»BUYER'S GUIDE
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