--- title: Coherence Reviews meta_title: 'Coherence Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Coherence works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 12 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Coherence Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About Coherence Oracle Coherence is a in-memory data grid solution that enables organizations to predictably scale mission-critical applications by providing fast access to frequently used data. ## Coherence Reviews ### 1. Oracle Coherence is the master of distributed catching **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Coherence?** The distributed catching mechanism provides zero tolerance in the production environment with respect to data **What do you dislike about Coherence?** The infrastructure is vast with respect to on board the product. Every time the coherence version upgrade is tedious for the development team to incorporate. **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distributed catching with real-time data which is important for the application to consume. It saves a lot of money with respect to the money that has been invested to get the real-time market data every often. ### 2. It's robust, maintainable and easy to setup **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hamidreza K. | Professional Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Coherence?** It's so fast, highly scalable, and well performed **What do you dislike about Coherence?** In comparison with Redis, it doesn't have Document store, Graph DBMS, ... **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** User session management in a fully distributed system ### 3. Best in Memory database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Speed of Coherence is unmatchable. Hazelcast should not be compared against Coherence. **What do you dislike about Coherence?** I do not face any problems with Coherence. **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** I want all my sites to load faster which I achieved using Coherence. ### 4. Oracle Coherence Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Decreased application response time and increases performance. **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Everything is good about coherence. Nothing I dislike about it **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance issues ### 5. In-memory data grid solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Fast access, IoT features, super fast speed **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Integration in implementing with other platforms should improve. **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apply cache ### 6. Using coherence for distributed caching **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madhvesh N. | Lead System Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Seamlessly setup L1, L2 and L3 caches and the performance is very good and data sync is pretty fast **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Sometimes has issues with locking for high velocity reads **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making data access fast ### 7. Usage of Coherence is helpful **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Functionality for cloud caching and performance for Datacaching **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Communication-complexity in a huge environment with network problems **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance optimization with distributed data caching ### 8. Caching **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Best caching product. Stable and convenient to use. **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Do not see any issues with using the product. **Recommendations to others considering Coherence:** Great product **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** Custom caching ### 9. coherence review for oracle product **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sandeep n. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Coherence?** coherence offer caching solution for oracle database **What do you dislike about Coherence?** coherence is not similar to memcache and is not offering full platform for suites **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** data caching and faster response to application ### 10. Data Fabric **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Cloud support, web scale, Data fabric, In memory **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Scaling, Performance comparisons, HA/DR architecture in details **Recommendations to others considering Coherence:** More Reference arch to support business use cases **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** In Memory scaling for CNA ### 11. Coherence **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Coherence?** autoconfiguration of product and integration with SOA suite and Weblogic **What do you dislike about Coherence?** not much documentation on how to use the product **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** port configuration and setup, no UI ### 12. Increased performance and incredibly reliable. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teresa K. | Senior Configuration Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **What do you like best about Coherence?** Been using coherence for years and it's been so incredibly reliable. Don't even need to think about it much. **What do you dislike about Coherence?** Is it fair to say that the performance is so good, that when coherence is restarted and things are "warming up" it is noticeably slower? It reminds us of how useful it is. **Recommendations to others considering Coherence:** It's worth trying. You'll know pretty quickly if it is something worth your money. **What problems is Coherence solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to have a reliable way of supporting thousands of users. This allowed us to bring large numbers of users onto the application quickly. ## Coherence Discussions - [What is Coherence cache Oracle?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-coherence-cache-oracle) - [What is coherence library?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-coherence-library) - [What is WebLogic coherence used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-weblogic-coherence-used-for) - [What is coherence used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-coherence-used-for) - [View Coherence pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/coherence/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-09-30+14%3A20%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a52494f4-4a66-4794-ae90-d138f04b9dd1&secure%5Btoken%5D=a9783b139f769b38a7751ab82d1303782b2331e21543b51133c10b1750bf4427&format=llm_user) ## Coherence Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Coherence Alternatives - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (132 reviews) - [Apache Ignite](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-ignite/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (17 reviews) - [Amazon ElastiCache](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-elasticache/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (84 reviews)