Oracle Multitenant Reviews

dbacdc6

Manager - Oracle Apps DBA and SAP BASIS support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Nov 29 2016

How has it helped my organization?

We have been working on consolidation projects. Earlier, as anybody else did, we were co-locating databases on servers, creating VMs. Now, we have moved away from that and gone to... more»

What needs improvement?

Even though we say Unplug Plug Upgrade is a very good feature and it does work, we are seeing that sometimes it takes longer than what we expect for larger databases. Secondly, it... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

As I’ve mentioned, we are long-time Oracle database users. The predominant driving factor was to find something that would get rid of creating a lot of VMs and co-locating... more»

What other advice do I have?

Go for this. As far as this product is concerned, we are happy with this product. Definitely, if you solve the licensing part of it, the product, capability-wise and features, is... more»

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Arup Nanda

Principal Global Database Architect at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 14 2016

What is most valuable?

1. The ability to create multiple databases without using any additional memory and CPU, and reallocating resources... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Database development along several parallel projects used to be nightmarish when trying to keep the various tracks of... more»

What needs improvement?

The ability to integrate with every feature of Oracle Database as, for example, it doesn't currently work with Audit... more»

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

Since there is no additional cost for one PDB in a CDB, you should always create a single PDB in a CDB even if you plan... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We used to use virtual machines. However, in VMs, we couldn't allocate resources dynamically and resources (CPUs,... more»

What other advice do I have?

Definitely consider this for non-production databases. Create multiple PDBs for development, QA, etc. which lets you... more»

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dba3379

DBA at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 20 2017

What is most valuable?

It's very helpful for cloning. The pluggable databases and everything works super easy, because we clone the databases every week. This saves... more»

How has it helped my organization?

In the past it would take about five hours for us, on a weekly basis, to clone one database or one environment. Now it takes less than two... more»

What needs improvement?

I can't think of anything right now, I've been pretty content with what we have.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

It was all a manual process.

What other advice do I have?

It's a pretty good product. Go for it.

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What is Oracle Multitenant?

Oracle Multitenant - an Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition option – introduces a new architecture that enables customers to easily consolidate multiple databases, without changing their applications. This new architecture delivers all the benefits of managing many databases as one, yet retains the isolation and resource prioritization of separate databases. In addition, Oracle Multitenant enables rapid provisioning and upgrades, and fully complements other options including Oracle Real Application Clusters and Active Data Guard. p>

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