# Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 27 ## About Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Whether you are a developer, a DBA, a data scientist, an educator, or just curious about databases, Oracle Database 18c Express Edition (XE) is the ideal way to get started. It is the same powerful Oracle Database that enterprises rely on worldwide, packaged for simple download, ease-of-use, and a full-featured experience. You get an Oracle Database to use in any environment, plus the ability to embed and redistribute – all completely free! ## Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Reviews ### 1. Empowering small scale solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand T. | Associate Analyst 1, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Oracle database express edition xe is great for developer and small businesses because it offers a powerful database management system with a simplified setup an no licensing cost. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** There are few limitation to consider.one downside is it's resources limitation, such as a maximum of 12 GB of user data and support for only one CPU socket and 2 GB RAM . **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle database express edition XE sloves the problem of providing a robust and scalable database solution for developers, small businesses, and educational institutions without the high costs associated with enterprise editions. ### 2. Perfect way to evaluate Oracle Database for free or to use in small test & dev environments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gregory D. | Cybersecurity, Compliance and Data Protection Officer, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Obviously, this version is limited in RAM (2Gb at the time of writing), CPU threads and user data (12 Gb at the time of writing), but it's free of charge! It's perfect for evaluating Oracle DB and/or running a small-scale test/dev environment. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** In 10g/11g, the limitations of Express Edition were quite harsh, but thankfully since v18c, the XE limits have been raised and allow much more room for manoeuvre. The current version at the time of writing (21c) allows for a maximum of 12Gb of database space. Honestly there is not much to dislike. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since it is free of charge, Oracle XE is great for running small development or test databases. It also allows for training our staff and experimenting new ideas without having to spend on a licensed version of the database. ### 3. Oracle DB XE for Beginners **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya P. | Information Technology Analyst, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Oracle DB Express Edition is a ready-to-go solution for developers and helps in building and testing applications in personal systems without any dependence on DB servers. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Some features in Oracle DB Enterprise Edition are missing in the XE edition. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I primarily use it for developing applications in my personal system before migrating it to on-premise database. ### 4. Oracle Database free version **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It is very cost effective, free to use. Even being the light weight version , it has many features and functionality comparable to thr enterprise edition. Multi platform support, it is available for windows,linux. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It has no official technical support. It has limited deployment options. Limited resource allocation,it has predefined limits on cpu usage,cpu threads and database size. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helpful in database management, used to test,build and debug applications. It helps to create feature rich applications which are database driven. It has helped to create a prototype and q proof-of-concept model of applications. ### 5. Easy to use database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonal G. | Staff Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I found this database software quite easy to use and it gives feedback while you are working with it, so you know what mistake you made while you are working at it. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I could not find plugins where auto complete could be enabled while typing queries. When auto complete is on, a user's task is considerable reduced and hence it becomes more user friendly. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Oracle XE edition at work where the client's database is stored in it. Working as a QA member, i can easily access the tables and their data, to verify it manually or via automation. ### 6. Advanced edition and feasible to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh D. | Staff Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It is absolutely free to use and can install and manage the tool easily. Really helpfull if you are in admin role **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** The maximum user data is limited to 12GB which is a disadvantage **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can organize and manage multiple Oracle databases at one place. And data compression helps us in storage perspective. ### 7. Oracle Statistics Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I like the cloud services atmost. I like the vendors and the cloud provider along with IAM SaaS and IAAS **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I dislike being an admin only. Also I dont like the DBaaS architecture a bit. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the on cloud DB management. Thus millions of users can allocate big data and do various complex tasks. ### 8. Price to performance ration is phenomenon. The best managed database in the market. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monojit R. | Principal consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Multitenant, In-Memory, Advanced Security, Advanced Analytics, easy to use for the developer, perfectly fits to our recent ML / AI workloads. Partitioning is enabled by default. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Not all workloads can be used in it. Unstructured, Non-SQL data can't be indexed or stored in it. However, for structured data it's a must to have. Not good for those if you are thinking of using AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers other than OCI due to licensing. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use, No extra knowledge needed. We can connect Oracle Database to your favorite programming languages and dev environments including Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, C/C++, and more. Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) to REST-enable your database. ### 9. I am an Oracle database developer and I can see the survey is very good i can rate my self 10/10 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meghashyam K. | Oracle Database Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** We are the database admins and we use version 8 to 19c with cloud infrastructure grid environment and we can operate 24/7 with the client British petroleum UK. So overall I am happy to be an admin. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** In older versions we don't have expdp and some grid environment so I don't think the versions are advantage now we have hot backups and rman which we can do backups with out doing the db down. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have awr report in standard edition compared with enterprise and express edition so the solution is very fine now to check the load average and redo transfer. ### 10. Easy to configure for a DBA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikhil M. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** After planning the database as per your requirement, it's just a few clicks of buttons using the graphical tool and you have your database ready to use. The documentation for DBA is quite good and makes life easy. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** The oracle license is expensive and there is scope for improving the amount of user data limitation. Currently, the user data cannot exceed 12 GiB which doesn't suit all use cases. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** An admin like me always needs to have a consolidated view of their databases, making it to help manage and optimize the database performance for faster query results. ### 11. OXE Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankit S. | Technology lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Express edition helps to get most of it with a lighter version despite most of the common features included. I was very excited when I used first time because it was a quick installation, occupy less space on the disk and faster response. This was very shocking I can do my quick analysis on data for my project work. I love it most. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** As its express edition so obviously not all features are included however I need majority of features in it. Sometimes I got stuck due to limitation of the product and doesn't like it. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** I am very much excited to share the feedback and recommendation to other due to its quick/fast response, readily available, just like mobile handy setup. Noone can avoid the benefits if project needs separate analysis/thread this is the best also due to cost part. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being a lighter version, with no large space/capacity requirements I can give my employees to do their basic testing of code which can save time, efforts & cost. At the same time, I observed early to market with my products/features. ### 12. Oracle is the best database system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gilberth G. | IT Regional Project Manager for PriceSmart, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** -Fast and reliable -Secure -Recovery methods **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I can not think about any feature that is not working well **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Express edition is enough for a medium size business to provide a secure, efficient and failure tolerant environment ### 13. Review for Oracle express Ed db **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhanapathi R. | HR MANAGER, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I've had to use this for a project of mine based out of nodejs where our company wanted us to use express edition of oracle db and it has been amazing and easy and lot of support and guide from the websites **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** A few tuitorials and videos about implementation in YouTube would help a lot for junior developers who want to implement this in their project and the paid edition could be a bit cheaper for students perhaps **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Excellent software and db with good support **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for an in-house project in my company for a website that managers user access and goods and hence we had to implement this database in the project ### 14. useful with limited features. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jayendar c. | Desktop Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** best for starters who is planning to be in database technologies. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** limited features not as like pro versions. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Query Language - Relational Databases: 1% above average ### 15. Easy to setup and light weight DB from oracle **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank B. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** From oracle database side, this is very light weight database whicj is easy to install and testing on local desktop with light load.it helps to design database locally before putting it onto Enterprise DB **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Oracle does not provide any support for this as it's free version. you can not store and upload more than 3.9 GB of data. there should be inbuilt SQL code editor and performance manager. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to design database on local system and then migrate it to higher environment. it also helps to integrate and check performance of integration system without spending much money on db side. ### 16. Best database available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kinjal V. | Associate Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It is easily installed and performance is much better than others **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Cost is comparatively high than other databases available in the market **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** User management data and for using Oracle APEX ### 17. Best db to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Somik K. | Senior System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** This is user friendly and easy to use and also setup for this is very easy **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Nothing as much to dislike in this software. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** This is the best db you will be using as beginner **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am developing web application by using this db ### 18. very efficient database and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** This tool is compatible with various development tools which makes life easy of developers. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** The tool is somehow unstable. This needs to be improvised. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** This tool is recommended for all the developers who wants to quick access a database. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working as a integration designer where we are playing with client data and we are storing all the informations in it. ### 19. Great database software to quickstart your software development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Database powered by Oracle, but free so the developers can quickstart the development of applications without the need for licensing **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** The 12gb of data limit when you are working on a database with has large objects **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Here you have the best rdbms software in the world, on a free version, that will allow you to start developing your solution and look forward to make money **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development ### 20. Simply WONDERFUL!! 10/10 Recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** I really liked the fact that our educators at my company were able to use this program for their course instruction. It was simple for them to learn, easy to install and there were no licensing costs. There were also workshops and full curriculum in computer science. You get a full course description, course mappings and more. It's truly beneficial to those who are really into technology **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** We just had a few issues with downloading onto our computers, but after a few tries it was fine. I do wish there were more options for courses. Maybe add a few more courses on beginner technology or note about the advances in technology. Least helpful for general users is not being able to use every part of the program for their certain needs. You have to do a little figuring out of things to find out what works exactly for your company and your purpose. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Use the curriculum! It's amazing and it does a great job at teaching those ready and willing to learn! At a budget friendly price! **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are working on a limited budget, so this was cost effective and helped us cut back on time and money with the course content and curriculum. We were able to use the program to educate our employees... two birds with one stone! ### 21. Secure and with most comprehensive documentation in the market - Oracle Database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** 1. Secure - security is one of the major challege in any database solution. With Oracle in the backend, be assured the security and stabality of the data. 2. Movement of data items - within databses works like a charm. 3. Tons of documentations available in the marketplace, so if you're stuck, go check the official documentation and it will help you find a solution. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** 1. Support for this tool from official vendor is not very good. I have faced problems personally. The staff can be better trained for technical expertise. 2. Limits performance with too heavy databases. So you might need to consider for choices in case, you're planning for very huge data sets. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have all our internal application databases setup with Oracle XE. It works fantastically with the small scale databases, however, for client facing, we do not use this database becasuse of its limitations with the performance. Also, the apis available with platform are very robust. Therefore, it easily embeds in your testing environments. ### 22. Oracle XE the easiest way to run Oracle Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paulo Henrique O. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It's really easy to have it up and running. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Some features are not available but I don't think it's a big issue. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Definitely you should go ahead and start using it mainly if you wanna have a small Database instance running locally where you can do everything that you are supposed to do in the regular Oracle Database. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We always use Oracle XE in order to have a small instance running locally where we can do all the necessary tests before sending what was deployed to our work environment. ### 23. fast relational database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** zahit B. | BI & DWH Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** We can run our SQL or PL / SQL commands we write in our database. For me, the best part of this database is that it is free and licensed indefinitely. I can say that this product is a pretty good database for entry level. It is superior to other databases, especially due to the advantage of the RAC architecture. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Ram and Data Size limit is the most negative feature for this database. There are also problems with Turkish language support. In addition, it may cause performance problems because there is only one instance limitation on a machine. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provided a nice free solution for a web-based e-commerce site project. Since the Oracle database has a strong user community, immediate solutions could be provided to the errors received. ### 24. Quick to setup and use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manju M. | Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** Oracle XE was quick to setup locally and design schemas before moving to higher environments **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It could be lighter to install like open source softwares **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** This is lighter than entire Oracle suite to setup and use. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design newer systems and experimenting with newer data models. ### 25. Oracle Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajat S. | Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** It's RDBMS System And It's Indexing System Is very Good. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** No Separate Editor For Write Sql Code You Have To Download Sql Developer For Write Code. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Good For Business . **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use As Backend For My ERP System And It's Indexing Feature Is Very Helpful. ### 26. Oracle basic database engine for testing purpose **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hassan M. | System Support Manager, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** easy to use and can install in a basic 4GB Ram system **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** all oracle databases should run in XE system recommendations. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** It should use for testing purpose only not recommended for production environment. **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is useful in Virtual environment specially for testing purpose. ### 27. Easily to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad U. | Software Engineer - Oracle, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** The best thing i like about the oracle express edition (XE) is that it's free for use and easy to install there isn't any training or need tutorial to install oracle express edition. it have a clicks and your database is installed on your computer or laptop. It's great for the students who are doing learning oracle database. small software like POS (Point of Sale) data can stored in the database very easily. very light wieight installation kit. **What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?** there is the limitation of database size you cannot store more than 4 GB of user data, hard-coded limitation. there isn't any support from oracle as it's the free version for use. It will work on only one processor core, no matter how many you have processor core **Recommendations to others considering Oracle Database Express Edition (XE):** Easy to install and use **What problems is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can store my data in the manageable form, manuplation of data, save different software data in the database. By using Oracle XE our paper work get less as our all data is now saved in database ## Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Discussions - [What is Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-oracle-database-express-edition-xe-used-for) - [View Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-database-express-edition-xe/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-27+03%3A49%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a34cbc8c-cce0-4d15-b1e8-dcdbee1988f0&secure%5Btoken%5D=a9ca4b361be22e434d4a1de516740669e4aafeb9511a8817b0bc1f95604362de&format=llm_user) ## Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Features **Management ** - Data Schema - Query Language - ACID - Complaint - Data Replication **Support ** - Text Search - Data Types - Languages - Operating Systems **Security** - Database Locking - Access Control - Encryption - Authentication **Performance ** - Disaster Recovery - Data Concurrency - Workload Management - Advanced Indexing - Query Optimizer **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Oracle Database Express Edition (XE) Alternatives - [Microsoft SQL Server](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,119 reviews) - [PostgreSQL](https://www.g2.com/products/postgresql/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (645 reviews) - [SAP HANA Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-hana-cloud-2025-10-01/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (522 reviews)