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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 16, 2002
Pros: Available for Mac OSX Jaguar
Cons: None - Perfect Product.
Summary: I have been using Oracle for ten years or more. It is the premier database program available. I have waited for a long time for it to be available on the Mac. Under Jaguar, it SCREAMS speed, and is very easy to use. A number of products work directly ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 21, 2000
Pros: high performance, very reliable, great feature set
Cons: As complicated as any other Oracle platform - requires some background
Summary: When Oracle finally released their beta of Oracle for Linux (8.0.4 I believe) in the fall of 1998, I was very excited to get an opportunity to test Linux on a distributed computing system that I had been building, which had an Oracle back-end. The very ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 31, 2000
Pros: Feature rich, with many options to improve performance, handles large amounts of data
Cons: Expensive, difficult to maintain, requires expensive hardware
Summary: It’s hard to write a concise review of something as large as Oracle 8i. I have a book at home, Essential Oracle, that covers the features of the database (and their importance) that runs about 300 pages.
What is a Database? ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 27, 2001
Pros: Scalability, Performance, Reliability,Installed base and bundled development tools
Cons: Administration, Cost
Summary: Introduction to Oracle 8i
Oracle 8i has gone and done it again - take a great software and make it better. Oracle has always tried to stay ahead of the other relational databases by proprietary extensions. In Oracle 8i too, Oracle has ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 16, 2001
Pros: Fast, complete, many languages supported
Cons: huge, expensive
Summary: I have to admit it, Oracle is the leader of the DBMSes. The options and the flexibility of this product make it ideal for the enterprise use, for the huge amount of data it can handle, for the fast execution of very complex queries, for the security and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 28, 2000
Pros: Internet geared, reliable, accurate
Cons: Learning curve, maintenance can be a bit trying
Summary: When dealing with any kind of computer OS or program, there is a necessary evil that I feel should be mentioned... the System Requirements. Here they are for Oracle 8i by MacMillan:
1) 800MB hard disk space
2) Linux ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 3, 2000
Pros: Stable, Serious Optimization Options
Cons: Steep learning curve, Potential compatibility issues
Summary: The "i" apparently stands for "internet" because Oracle 8i contains many features that make it desirable to use within a large scale internet application environment. I'm not a database guy, so I don't know a lot of the details, but ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 4, 2000
Pros: Market share, capability
Cons: Cost, manageability
Summary: Oracle is definitely the market leader in NT/UNIX database systems. It certainly is a "safe" choice given that market share. There are always Oracle DBA's available. It is hard to come up with real technical complaints against Oracle, other ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2001
Pros: Scalability, Industry Standard, Cross-platform
Cons: Very difficult management, very difficult installation
Summary: If you're reading this opinion, don't buy Oracle.
These days, there are three primary reasons to buy Oracle: a) You already have a sizable investment in the platform (DBA's, developers, legacy data)
b) You need a cross-platform solution ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community May 13, 2005
Pros: pretty pricy but nice database
Cons: backup manager (rman) is unreliable.
Summary: I have used a variety of databases and have found Oracle to be very versatile and performs well on either unix or windows The graphics installer is nice but you have to setup resources x11 on unix to get it to install. The thing I liked about Oracle
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