Oracle Database as a Service Reviews

What I found most valuable about Oracle Database as a Service is its fast transactions and materialized views.

Oracle Database as a Service is a good product but costly. The licensing costs for it should be reduced because it's expensive. The license fee for Oracle Database is more costly than my product license.

We have used Oracle Database as a Service for more than twenty years.

Oracle Database as a Service takes work to scale.

Oracle support could be better, so I'm giving it six out of ten. There was a new release, and my team requested the patch, but it took the Oracle team a long time to address the request.

Neutral

Setting up Oracle Database as a Service requires a lot of manual work, so setup-wise, it's a six out of ten.

Deploying the product takes twenty-four hours.

Pricing for Oracle Database as a Service is expensive.

My company has more than five thousand clients on Oracle Database as a Service, but it could now be less than that because of the price issue.

Thirty people maintain, monitor, and do ad hoc testing and recovery backup for Oracle Database as a Service.

If a client currently uses Oracle Database as a Service, I suggest keeping it. However, scaling it is challenging, and its pricing is costly.

In the past, Oracle Database as a Service was a nine out of ten. Nowadays, it's a five out of ten.

My company is an Oracle customer.

Our primary use case for this Oracle solution is as the repository for applications developed in-house. I'm a software and integration architect and we are customers of Oracle. 

I like that the solution is easy to onboard. There's no database on-premise that requires installation from scratch. Without the serverless option, installation is a very complicated process. It requires hardware as well as DBAs, operating system, and network administrators. With Database as a Service, you can be up and running the same day.

Although we do not need to set up our own indexes, because the solution internally improves the queries, when we migrate to a different instance, the internal machine learning is lost. The solution doesn't provide an option for migrating the index optimization to another instance.

I've been using this service for nearly three years.

The solution is stable. 

I believe it is scalable although we haven't had the opportunity to do that yet. 

We have the Oracle Support Subscription and they have been helpful. We also have Advanced Customer Services from Oracle.

We have set up the solution numerous times and it has been very easy.

I recommend this solution and rate it nine out of 10. 

We value the single data run that the solution provides.

The stability of the product can be improved.

We have been using the solution for approximately fifteen years.

The solution is not very stable.

The solution is scalable. Approximately 100 people utilize it in our organization. 

We do not have experience with customer service and support.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's included in our server, and we have a data center with several devices.

I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

The primary use case for this solution for the clients I have been working with is building applications and storing their data in the database. My other use case is helping companies set up data guards for high availability.

Oracle has helped our organization by being a reliable solution that is stable with zero crashes. The differentiation between Oracle's database and other databases is that Oracle needs more attention. It's not a click here, click there solution, it needs more time put in, but once you do that, it's ready to go and you can forget about it.

The most valuable feature is the solution's ability to seamless transform a primary into a standby database. When setting up failover where you have an active and a standby database and production goes down, you don't know if there are any issues. So, a seamless switch over to the standby is valuable because you can work on the production that has gone down to fix the problem.

The area in this solution that could be improved is that currently, it's difficult to do the setup. You need to do all kinds of command lines to get it set up. If that setup becomes easier and easily manageable, that would be great.

In the next release, I'd like to see a simpler connection between Oracle and other databases like SQL, MySQL, or a DB tool. I'd also like to see a simpler way to pull data from those external databases. This would add value to Oracle in my opinion.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service since 2007. That adds up to around 16 years. I started using Oracle when it was Oracle version 10.

The cost of licensing for this solution is quite high. 

When it comes to other people looking into this solution, I would advise double-checking the pricing as it's quite high for Oracle. Other than that, go for it.

Overall, I would rate this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.

Debugging this solution is challenging. 

I have been using this solution for twenty years. 

I would rate this solution an eight or nine for stability. 

This solution does not offer the best scalability. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

The customer service for this solution is very good. I would rate them a nine out of ten. 

Positive

I would rate the initial setup a seven out of ten. Deployment took two years. 

This is an expensive solution. 

I use this solution because it is a powerful database and is faster than others. It has so many features. When I compare it with other database, I prefer the Oracle Database.

I would rate this solution an eight of ten. 

We are using Oracle Database as a Service when we need to extract information for a web service. Additionally, I use the solution for filtering and triggering information.

Oracle Database as a Service has been helpful because I can use it on my laptop when I need to write to the databases.

The most valuable feature of Oracle Database as a Service is the stopwatch.

Oracle Database as a Service could improve by having ETL for larger data.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service for approximately three years.

I rate Oracle Database as a Service an eight out of ten.

We use the solution to manage applications like Office. 

The solution is fast and easy. 

The tool needs to improve its pricing and stability. 

I have been using the product for two years. 

I would rate the product's stability a seven out of ten. We had faced an issue with the Oracle system. 

The solution is scalable. My company has twenty users for the product. 

The tool's setup is easy. 

Our local partner helped us to configure the database. 

The solution is worth its money. 

The tool's licensing is on an yearly basis. 

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

Oracle Database as a Service is used for business and financial systems. It's an enterprise business solution.

I have been using Oracle Database as a Service for approximately six years.

Oracle Database as a Service is stable.

The scalability of Oracle Database as a Service is easy to do.

We have approximately 2,000 people using this solution.

I have had some incidences in the past months using Oracle Database as a Service and I used the support. The support escalation was in a timely fashion.

Oracle Database as a Service is difficult to set up. They should make it easier.

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

I recommend this solution to others.

I rate Oracle Database as a Service an eight out of ten.