Oracle Database Pros and Cons

The solution has very robust integrity due to how it is designed and implemented.

The reliability is the solution's most valuable feature. We've had great success with the solution.

It is a reliable database warehouse solution that is transparent to the end user.

Especially with VMs, the solution can scale well.

On-prem, Oracle is the number one database technology.

It is reliable. It's very stable.

The pricing is very competitive. Oracle is still the number one database company. From the technical aspects, Oracle Database is the best solution for small, medium, and big industries.

We find technical support to be very responsive. They briefly describe everything on phone and we handle the operations. I'd say we've been more than satisfied with their level of service. They're quite helpful and knowledgeable.

From a database product perspective, I would say, they're good in what they provide. There's not much concern.

I've never faced any stability issues with the product. I don't recall any bugs, glitches, or crashes. I'd say it's fairly stable and shouldn't cause anyone issues in that regard.

The solution can be quite expensive for small and medium-sized enterprises. Not too many companies can actually afford the pricing.

The main thing we find could use improvement is the licensing costs. It is quite expensive relative to other database vendors. Cost always comes up as an issue for us as we consider upgrade paths. It's not as easy as we would like it to be.

The pricing is the one sticking point for the solution because it is very expensive.

The initial setup is a bit complex.

Oracle needs to improve its cluster technologies. They need to improve in the cluster technology using ARC due to the fact that sometimes people think that they have a redundant server when they are using ARC with the cluster and think that will increase the performance. In reality, if they are using ii with a big workload, sometimes the performance is not increasing, and can sometimes actually impacts it in such a way that there's some degradation in the performance.

The solution can be quite expensive.

I'm in Indonesia. From what I know, Ali Cloud has already built a center in Indonesia, and Google also has a data center in Indonesia. I have heard that Amazon will also build a data center in Indonesia, and the same will be with Azure if they deal with the Indonesian government. I'm quite appreciative of what Amazon has done by deciding to have a local data center. I expect Oracle to do the same, but Oracle doesn't seem to have plans to build a data center in Indonesia. This is something that needs to be improved. Oracle should follow all the other cloud providers who see a potential market in Indonesia. It would be better for Oracle to be equal to other cloud providers and have a data center in Indonesia so they can compete. Having a local data center means that they can avoid performance issues, the latency of the network, and all the things that are related to the network for internet-based solutions. Customers in Indonesia expect a local data center.

We don't really find that any features are lacking.

If their database encryption features could come in bytes, that would be a major improvement. They should bring the encryption model to their standard databases as well.

It could be slightly more intuitive, but other than that, we really like it as a solution.