Oracle Database as a Service Other Solutions Considered

Daniel_Nemethy - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Nemethy Moderato Kft

Microsoft is trying to get into this business. It's cheaper. One reason is that the banking systems often use PSQL. There is business logic in the database. The reason Microsoft was proposed was for its performance. It costs a lot to transform PSQL into Microsoft SQL. They are two different languages, and even the solutions are different. Another reason to go with Oracle is that it's more mature than its competitors. I would consider it the golden gate.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

We have utilized other cloud and hosted platforms such as Azure, Macquarie Telecom, Verizon, Xerox, etc. However, this option was superior for Oracle Database hosting.

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MM
Technology Director at 24i

We did look at SQL and MongoDB since starting with the solutions. However, we did not look at anything before choosing Oracle. 

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SW
Founder at Simpro Tech

I have evaluated both SQL and MySQL, and I have found that MySQL lacks the interactivity and capacity compared to SQL.

Oracle is typically chosen when a highly robust and reliable system is required.

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Omar Hurtado - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Coordinator at Universal Electronics

I recommend Database as a Service to others over other similar solutions, such as Microsoft Dynamics or SAP.

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RN
Chief Innovation Officer at Viscosity North America

Some of the criteria for when you're evaluating a cloud, to me, number one is cost, but after that it's SLA (Service Level Agreement - from the cloud provider). Is my data going to be there? Consider a credit card company. They have seven seconds until they're paying some other company because they didn't do the transaction fast enough. Usually it takes them one second to approve your transaction so time and speed is probably the most important thing.

What are some of the criteria people should be looking at? First of all is SLA. Will it be up? The second isL is it going to be on hardware and software that I'm used to? I have a tech staff of 100 people, are they going to be able to do their job when that data's in the cloud? Just being familiar with things. Can it scale? Is it large enough?

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MS
Senior BackEnd .net at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

For our clients, Microsoft is an alternative. Microsoft is cheaper, faster and has better support than Oracle.

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it_user452346 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability is number one. Data transfer is number two. And security actually tops, on top of that. And the ability to move the workloads between on-prem and off-prem. So that's one of the big things you are looking at, and if we don't like things, and if you want to push back, and we want to come back to our on-prem, what options do we have? So, can we migrate easily from a public cloud to a private cloud and private cloud to an on-prem cloud, and vice-versa. So, having that ability is a big thing, because we don't want to invest in something where we go to the cloud but we don't know how to come back. So we don't want it to be a one-way street, we want to choose a product that can give us an opportunity to not only go into the cloud, but also in a worst-case scenario, come back out.

So initially we started with Amazon. We tested a little bit, but the security was a big thing for us and the way they handle security is a little different I don't necessarily say it is wrong or bad, it's just that I was not very comfortable having the keys being shared versus in Oracle, the security keys are owned by the customer which is us, as opposed to with the vendor, and that was a prime difference for us. And second thing was, Amazon cloud is more on the infrastructure provisioning and metered. They don't give a database as a service. They do have some options, but being an Oracle customer, we know what Oracle can provide, which is totally a value-add kind of a service, with a lot of different shaders, compared to the others like Amazon or Rackspace or a hundred different partners. But I think it's because we are very close with Oracle, we can see how they can give us those value add services.

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SH
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Yes. AWS and MS Azure.

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Ahmad Hida - PeerSpot reviewer
Application and BI manager at Ithmaar-solutions

I didn't look at any other solutions.

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it_user452340 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Miracle Finland Oy

Reliability I will say that's the most important thing and what I learnt today from the keynote was that people are afraid about security and especially about the vendor security. I think that's something that you should really look at when you are choosing your vendor. How are they taking care of your security? Because you have all your valuable data in that cloud, you don't want anybody to go and mess with it.

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it_user622242 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sub-Manager IT Infrastructure at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We looked at Dell storage, but we chose Oracle due to its performance, security, and scalability.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle Database as a Service
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle Database as a Service. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.