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Oracle

Oracle Database

Composite Score

8.7 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

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What is Oracle Database?

Oracle’s Database management capabilities make DBA lives easier by providing a full-lifecycle solution encompassing change and configuration management, patching, provisioning, testing, masking/subsetting, performance management and automatic tuning.

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Awards & Recognition

Oracle Database won the following awards in the Transaction Data Store category

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2025 Data Quadrant Champion

Latest Award, 2025

5 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2025

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2025

Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

10 Top Rated Capabilities

12 Top Rated Features

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

10 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Product Impact

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022

11 Top Rated Capabilities

15 Top Rated Features

2022

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022

Service Experience
Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

2022

2021 Data Quadrant Champion

2021

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021

Oracle Database Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Oracle Database?

4% Negative

1% Neutral

95% Positive

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Unique Features
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Data Protection and Security

Analytics and Reporting

Database Management

High Availability

Data Backup

Data Replication

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Systems Performance Management

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Big Data Analytics

Data Monitoring and Administration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 83

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Oracle Database Reviews

Amir M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Oracle Database

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Oracle Database from other similar products?

Integration options with most programming languages. You can write Java in Oracle database

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Calling functions and procedures to run from internal application and seamless integration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Indexing is slower for large volume tables due to which loading and fetching results takes very long sometimes

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Properly access if the features are best suited for your use case

Pros

Security Protects
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable

Ale N.

Role: Operations
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Requires some improvements

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Oracle Database from other similar products?

It is easily customizable

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect is data protection and security

What do you dislike most about this product?

No dislike for this product at all

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I can recommend it for transaction data store

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Vasilis M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2023

Affordable, Secure and Robust DBMS

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Oracle Database from other similar products?

There are lots of features that makes Oracle DB beat the rest in delivering quality services to its users but in my opinion, I crown the capability to import and export entire schemas as its most outstanding feature.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the quick performance and functionality of its standard command line (CL) for it allows me to write and execute queries quickly and get accurate results.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The initial configurations are confusing and complicated. It requires an expert to all optimization and settings correctly.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend it to companies seeking to migrate their storage system to the cloud for secure, reliable and powerful data storage services.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Data Quadrant Champion

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2022 Data Quadrant Champion

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Data Quadrant Champion

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

Oracle Database Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Oracle Database?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Data Protection and Security Includes data encryption, data audit, and data compliance.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Database Management Supports multiple data types, data structuring, data retrieval, database customization, and multi-user access.

High Availability HA DB designed for near-zero downtown by seamless replication of data between environments for uninterrupted real-time access and fail-over capabilities.

Data Backup Includes the creation of duplicate instances to recover from an unplanned data loss. Also, support for high volumes of data processing and data compression.

Data Replication Support for a real-time copy of the database in more than one system to facilitate access to the copy of data from multiple systems without any inconsistencies.

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing Also referred to as OLTP (Online Transaction processing). OLTP databases include strong support for CRUD operations and ACID compliance.

Systems Performance Management Includes monitoring, analyzing and configuration in order to optimize performance and increase efficiency.

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support Includes OLTP and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing). Most OLTP systems support some level of OLAP but very few OLAP systems support OLTP.

Big Data Analytics Use of big data analytics through integration into purpose-built big data tools or native capabilities, incorporating advanced security methods.

Data Monitoring and Administration Includes ability to continuously monitored data quality rules, as well as generate alerts to notify data stewards when they need to address an issue.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Oracle Database Reviews

Amir M.

Oracle Database

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ale N.

Requires some improvements

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Vasilis M.

Affordable, Secure and Robust DBMS

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Data Protection and Security

Analytics and Reporting

Database Management

High Availability

Data Backup

Data Replication

High Speed & Online Transaction Processing

Systems Performance Management

Hybrid Transaction and Analytical Support

Big Data Analytics

Data Monitoring and Administration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training