Oracle Database Appliance Valuable Features

AA
CEO at Missan Alnjoom IInformation Technology

The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.

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StefanSeck - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Sales - Oracle Technologies at Lgicalis GmbH

The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase.

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Muhammad Usman Muzaffar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings. We can easily manage the website.

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JL
Chief Executive Officer at Standard Bank South Africa

The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability. 

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KM
Administrator at champ Solutions limited

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices.

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AC
IT Specialist at Supremo Tribunal Federal

Oracle Database Appliance is scalable. It is a great solution for Oracle Database. This is the best hardware environment you can do it.

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Charu Mazumdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at DXC Technology

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

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AA
CTO at TOSB

Oracle is a stable database.

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Andrei Popescu - PeerSpot reviewer
MIS Coordinator at IDEA BANK

I like the solution’s performance.

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it_user689538 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup.

For the new ODA X6-2 models there is a possibility to deploy also SE/SE2 databases in a bare-metal deployment as well as the boosted I/O performance due to NVMe Flash disks.

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EA
Sr. Director, Systems & Databases at GTech
  • Capacity on Demand: Valuable because we can configure the machine according to our licenses. When there is a need, we can directly increase or decrease the CPU cores of this machine.
  • NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying.
  • Virtualization: Using the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), we can virtualize this machine and run both databases and applications on it.
  • Affordable price: When we think about the technology and the features that this machine delivers, the price seems to provide a lot of value.
  • Engineered system: This machine is a 1U engineered system optimized, tested and delivered by Oracle. It is a ready-to-use, easy-to-deploy environment for running Oracle products.
  • Support for multiple database versions: Both 11.2.0.4 and 12c databases are supported with this machine.
  • Support for multiple database editions: Both Standard edition and Enterprise edition databases are supported with this machine.
  • ODA X6-2 is easy to manage: It delivers management utilities such as odacli and virt-manager (for virtualization management).
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SJ
Lead Oracle DBA at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The deployment is super-simple as everything is pre-packaged. There's very little configuration to worry about.

We manage everything through the appliance. It's easier to manage from our side of the managed databases and add more storage, et cetera. It's very easy to mimic what we need. we can easily add more storage whenever we want. The scalability is great.

We had Commodity servers - those bales servers on-premises - and there was a lot of maintenance going on with that. After moving to RDA, life is much easier because everything is managed through those deployed solutions. It's easier to manage this way.

From a maintenance point of view and from an upgrade and migration point of view, it is very easy because most of the upgrades are fast. We can take one down and finish the upgrade and move onto the next as necessary. It's easier to manage the patches and upgrades.

The solution is pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error.

The pricing is great. It's much better than what the competition is offering.

The product is pretty user-friendly.

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it_user1396542 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Vice President IT Operations at ZTBL

The most valuable feature is the performance. Its a pre-configured device and you just plug and play..

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MR
Owner at a tech services company

The Oracle Database Appliance offers a pay-as-you grow model for Oracle licenses. This model allows you to only license the CPU count that you need, rather than the entire capacity. When virtualized, this is supported for both the database and the application tier.

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BJ
IT Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks. Additionally, regarding the graphical user interface, anybody can manage the VMs.

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SS
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use Oracle databases with multiple clients mainly for analyzing financial transactions. They use it to find the profit and loss for each and every day of trading activity.

Finding out out a single day's profit and loss used to take them almost seven days to calculate. For example, if they wanted to find out something new, they could find the profit and loss of the day's data only by the following week. So we introduced Oracle Database Appliance for the extra data and to gather all the information we have across all the systems. We built a warehouse database that will accommodate all the information and we reduced the time to determine the entire transactions of P and L into a single day.

The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day. This is our main use for Oracle. The business intelligence and data warehousing features are the best part of Oracle Database Appliance.

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AO
Enterprise Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution.

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OR
CFO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The product is very light. By that I mean, in terms of response rate, it's light. 

Oracle can handle a lot of data.

The implementation process is easy.

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it_user515112 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers easy deployment and setup.

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Kenan Çiftçi - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management.

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AQ
Chief Information Officer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The performance due to the all-flash of ODA is very nice. 

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BN
Deputy IT Director at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

I think the most valuable part of the Oracle Database Appliance is just the ability to use the database. We make the reports on our own and let Oracle do what it does best.  

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it_user436422 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner - Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

ODA has two most valuable features. First, it’s very easy to deploy. Once received, you can unpack it, rack it, install it in less than one day and having a fully usable machine very quickly.

The second feature is its scalability: you can start with a small configuration (regarding Oracle licensing) and then enable Oracle CPU depending on your needs.

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it_user247422 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO/Architect at Viscosity North America

The biggest value that customers are seeing, is that it's easy to install, quick to deploy, and easy to consolidate platforms; as opposed to building an environment from scratch. When you get the ODA, all you must do is plug it in and run several commands to get it up and running. This allows for the time to deploy to be really fast. With the addition of the X6-2S, 2M and 2HA, there is a ODA platform that will suit SMB, mid-size and now large scale customer workloads.

Particularly interesting, is that now ODA 2S/M supports Standard Edition (SE2) database configurations, which is great for SMB and mid-size consolidation plays.

Moreover, the ODA X2-HA adds a new whole area for us and our customers, as it adds an all flash storage array option and virtualization capabilities; further improving consolidation densities.


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it_user687180 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DBA at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We value the following features:

  • It is easily scalable.
  • All patches (OS, DB) are bundled by Oracle, so patching dependencies are resolved.
  • Oracle guarantees that the setup works if you keep up with the patches.
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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

I picked Database Appliance because it's quick and easy to deploy and configure.

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MK
IT Specialist Databases at Botswana Open University

The databases run smoothly all night without any administrative hassles. If the database goes down on one of the servers, the load is automatically shifted to another server. You can troubleshoot the one that is down without affecting uptime.

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JC
Director of IT at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance.

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it_user689523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator

We value the following features:

  • Performance (we used a bare-metal configuration so I don't know about using it as a virtual environment).
  • Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time).
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it_user687198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is the ability to use it as a virtualization platform. This is great because you can run the Oracle Database layer as ODA_BASE domain and use Oracle VM templates to build Oracle applications as VMs so you can also have the application layer in the same platform.

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it_user685389 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Valuable features include an easy installation, good performance, and stability.

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it_user431193 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer, Middleware/CRM/Billing at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It has many valuable features, including High Availability and failover. This means you can have an all-ERP solution in one box, so you can use your database with your application server together.

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RB
Consultant at a tech services company

The features that they're providing as skills are the solution's most valuable aspect.

The solution is simple to use and easy to maintain.

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it_user801273 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at LSC Communications

Oracle RAC.                                                        .

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it_user689544 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database and Application Systems Expert at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Configurable installation pre-defined templates are available to meet your requirements.

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