Oracle Database In-Memory Reviews

Guru Gangiredla

Senior Oracle Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 04 2017

After expressing the columns, it then compresses the data and puts the data into memory; there's a lot of compression.

What is most valuable?

Ours is a DW environment, ETL extracts data from SAP and loads into the reporting database. The DBA objective was optimal… more»

How has it helped my organization?

This data is of our BI reporting. This reporting is open for all the warehouse managers to know all their financial… more»

What needs improvement?

For some reason, the stats optimizer doesn't work well. We actually disabled some of these features, such as the optimizer… more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Pricing and Licensing is not something I deal with. But since we have ULA, we did not have to bother about it.

If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?

No we have built this on oracle.

What other advice do I have?

You need to understand the data. You do not want to use In-Memory for all of the data. You need to understand the data… more»

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Laurent Leturgez

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

Aug 01 2017

Combined with Exadata, it makes a solution that will deliver the best performance related to the volume of data.

What is most valuable?

Oracle has a lot of features embedded. In my opinion, Oracle In-Memory offers a lot of improvements in database performance specially for data… more»

How has it helped my organization?

Each time I've implemented the In-Memory option, the improvements have been on the performance side. This option offers a way to drastically reduce… more»

What needs improvement?

They need to improve the Decision Support System with analytics workloads.

If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?

I tested the In-Memory equivalent in DB2 or SQL Server 2014, but they both have limitations in their uses. SAP HANA is one of the most concurrent… more»

What other advice do I have?

Implementing Oracle In-Memory is very easy, but the tuning phase is mandatory to optimize it.

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Anonymous User

IT Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 31 2017

It scales really well.

What is most valuable?

Performance. That's probably the number one. When we use it for OLTP, which is the Online Transaction Processing, the response for the end-user is… more»

How has it helped my organization?

I think it still goes back to the user benefiting the most out of this, it's basically a good customer experience, the product.

What needs improvement?

Nothing right now.

If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?

No, we always needed something like this, and I've looked at Microsoft, they have a similar solution, I think they have something similar,

What other advice do I have?

Try it out first. See if it meets your expectations and go from there.

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Anonymous User

Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jul 30 2017

The most valuable features are its real time performance and consistency.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features are its real time performance and consistency.

How has it helped my organization?

We are not using it for our internal systems, but rather for our customer solutions. We can provide a high standard with this solution to our… more»

What needs improvement?

We are waiting for new features in the next release.

If you previously used a different solution, which one did you use and why did you switch?

We had started to use this solution from the beginning. We haven't switched from another solution. When selecting a vendor, we want someone who has… more»

What other advice do I have?

I recommend using this solution, just as we are using it.

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Oracle Database In-Memory transparently accelerates analytics by orders of magnitude while simultaneously speeding up mixed-workload OLTP. With Oracle Database In-Memory, users get immediate answers to business questions that previously took hours.

Oracle Database In-Memory delivers leading-edge in-memory performance without the need to restrict functionality, or accept compromises, complexity and risk. Deploying Oracle Database In-Memory with any existing Oracle Database compatible application is as easy as flipping a switch - no application changes are required. Oracle Database In-Memory is fully integrated with the Oracle Database’s renowned scale-up, scale-out, storage tiering, availability, and security technologies making it the most industrialstrength offering on the market.

The ability to easily perform real-time data analysis together with real-time transaction processing on all existing applications enables organizations to transform into Real-Time Enterprises that quickly make data-driven decisions, respond instantly to customer demands, and continuously optimize all key processes.

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