We performed a comparison between Oracle Multitenant and SQL Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Relational Databases Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Multitenant has a container database with many pluggable databases."
"It's easy to use and works great."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"The database becomes pluggable. Inside this container is called a pluggable database and each application contains this pluggable database inside Multitenant. We can then share resources like control files, memory, etc. This lets you stop and start each application without impacting the others. This resource sharing is the most valuable feature"
"You can scale the solution as needed."
"The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"Maintaining databases is a valuable feature for us."
"It's a very stable solution."
"SQL Server is quite stable. And now we are using the Lattice 2017 version."
"The stability is fine, especially if you're hosting it on AWS or Azure. You can get up to 99.99% stability on AWS."
"I have experience with this product for many years. I never have problems with it. It can handle a PC, and it can also handle huge data. It is fast and efficient."
"The solution seems to be pretty flexible."
"The features that we have found the most valuable are reliability, availability perspective, and current scalability."
"SQL Server Profiler makes finding and debugging easy."
"The most valuable feature is easy installation. It was very easy to install."
"That said, Oracle in general doesn't invest in their UI for any of their applications. If we're talking about the dashboard or other user experience, there is room for improvement. I'm talking about on premises. The cloud version has started to improve."
"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"It would be beneficial to include this solution with Oracle Enterprise, but Oracle charges additional fees for it."
"This solution is a bit complicated when collecting from containers - that feature should be a bit better."
"The user interface for this solution can be made better."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"Technical support could be faster."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"Right now we don't get much technical support from Microsoft"
"We have no vision. We don't know when or how we have been hacked."
"The remote access aspect needs to be improved in terms of security."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing and technical support."
"I would like to see improvements made to the stability of SQL Server, as well as more analytics requirements."
"Query optimitzer could be simplified."
"The solution’s pricing and integration could be improved."
"Microsoft support is an issue unto itself."
Oracle Multitenant is ranked 16th in Relational Databases Tools with 15 reviews while SQL Server is ranked 1st in Relational Databases Tools with 260 reviews. Oracle Multitenant is rated 8.4, while SQL Server is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Multitenant writes "Databases are automatically upgraded and cloning of pluggable databases requires just one command ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Server writes "Easy to use and provides good speed and data recovery". Oracle Multitenant is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, IBM Db2 Database, SAP HANA and MariaDB, whereas SQL Server is most compared with MariaDB, SAP HANA, Oracle Database, LocalDB and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Multitenant vs. SQL Server report.
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Hi Akin,
First, both DBs manage your relational data on several operating systems (Linux, Windows Server, ...) and as Cloud Services. The newer architecture of Oracle tries to support you in a mixed environment where you can distribute a large DB over your own servers and cloud services. But as we always saw in the past, if a new feature of Oracle is good, Microsoft will follow.
So your main questions should be:
-How big is your DB? The bigger, the more I suggest Oracle.
-Are you in a mixed world (Cloud and your own servers)? If Cloud is Azure, I think SQL Server is a good choice.
-Is the price a topic? The liscence rules of Oracle are sometimes complicated.
Hope this helps a little.
Hi Martin, it is no marketing rumor.
Oracle is the number one in terms of big databases and scalability. But as I wrote, Microsoft is always one step behind.
So if the price is no question and you need the best on the market, Oracle is the choice. But to use the full power, you need someone who knows how to plan and set up the whole environment!
The planning starts with a look at your amount of data, the decision of what response time is necessary, what is the yearly increase of the data,...
I worked on a project with several million transactions a day and we tested Oracle and Microsoft with this result: Oracle was the better. But we must use a lot of tuning features of Oracle and optimize the hardware environment for this task. Shortly, Oracle has a lot of 'screws' to tune, but if you don't know exactly what to turn on, it will fail.
But it is similar to SQL Server. Additional hardware is often not the solution.
Hi Akin,
Without going into the technical details; did you have a look a the pricing of MSSQL and Oracle databases?
I always hear that the Oracle database is better than MS SQL. But I never got to test this myself.
What I do know is that when I tell a customer the Oracle pricing, they are usually going in another direction.
You must have a very good functional reason to go for Oracle considering the price difference. As @Patric Gehl suggested: a very big database is good but for a good reason.
Kind regards,
Martin Zwarthoed