I would rate the costliness of Oracle Audit Vault as a seven out of ten. It is a bit expensive.

• Setup consumes too much resource and storage. 
• Also if you need to install Database Firewall, you need another server. 
• Pricing is expensive.

On licensing, Oracle is very expensive. Oracle handles the licensing. I just do the deployment. Especially now that they are moving towards the cloud, cloud licensing becomes very expensive. Maybe sales guys do not always advise customers better as to the advantages, but customers generally have a fear of the costs of licensing for Oracle specifically.

In terms of cost, in addition to the standard licensing fees, there are add-ons. It costs in resources and software as well as deployment to create and manage a complete set of Cloud services, including infrastructure as a service, creditors service, customer service, etc. 

I've recommended that for monitoring purposes and management capability and even for non-Oracle databases approach to go for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control. Just deployment of this firewall without Cloud Control will not get most users optimal value. 

Technology keeps evolving all the time. I think one needs to really do a lot of research and innovation to get to know what's new in different products before they can acquire any product at all. It's very important. For me, before I advise the customer on the product or upgrade, I do comprehensive research.

The pricing policy is quite aggressive. We must equal the number of processors on DB in accordance with this appliance, thus making it very expensive.

I am currently using the free version and I was not required to buy a license.

The important thing is to use the most suitable product for our company for many years (every 1-2 years to change the product to force the company). We must make good decisions about our needs, make PoC studies diligently and compare the advantages and disadvantages of the products. If we specify the ideal product for us, pricing and licensing should be important in the second place.

This solution is definitely not expensive, and it is a small fraction of the overall database licensing costs. It is a simple add-on license, but it is not perpetual so we have to pay licensing fees every year.

For the bank, the licensing cost is about $360,000, annually.

For the value and cost of being compliant, the price is worth paying, because then you don't get auditors coming in left, right and center. Our clients spend a lot of money, but they also get their compliance guaranteed, so I think it's overall saving them money.

There are no additional fees to pay.

You can use this as a good audit reporting tool and it is worth to use it as a high compliance risk tool.

For the bank, the license was $48,000 last time. That was the licensing for the bank on just one license.

AVDF is very reasonable for Oracle products. The license cost is determined by the number of DB servers that will be protected. If you integrate the DB servers or use a multitenant environment, the number of licenses can also be aggregated.

It is affordable but technical skills are required to architect and set up the system.

Oracle Database Security solutions provide you with the most comprehensive and advanced security offerings that help reduce the costs and complexity of securing their business information across the enterprise.

Oracle provides highly stable and well-documented products and their support assures value for your money.

It’s a value-for-money product. It offers multiple features of the Oracle RDBMS indirectly to you for the Audit Vault repository database.

In my opinion, the license cost is worth the work that the product is doing.

It is an expensive solution. For those customers who do not have any ULA agreements with Oracle, the solution is practically impossible to acquire.