I have not evaluated other products against Oracle Database In-Memory.

The best competitor for Oracle is Microsoft. But Microsoft is much harder than Oracle to scale.

We evaluated different providers. We went to Oracle Database In-Memory for better transaction size and volume.

We tried several ways to offload OLAP queries from the database, especially using a second DB system.

We evaluated this product throughout the beta1 and beta2 phase.

No we did not evaluate other options, however we are moving out of this option to SAP Hana.

Choosing this solution was the choice of the database administrator. I didn't participate in the process, so I'm not sure what was used before of if other solutions were evaluated.

We did evaluate a few other vendors, but again this wasn't a product on it's own. It's part of the bigger ecosystem. So the decisions are for other reasons.

We looked at other vendors before we started using this product, but because we were already an Oracle customer, using their database, it made sense to be in Oracle In-Memory.

We haven't used other vendors. We have a long relationship with Oracle and we have had a good experience with them in the past.