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Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)

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Anand T.
AT
Associate Analyst 1
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Empowering small scale solutions"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gregory D.
GD
Cybersecurity, Compliance and Data Protection Officer
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Perfect way to evaluate Oracle Database for free or to use in small test & dev environments"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya P.
AP
Information Technology Analyst
Banking
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle DB XE for Beginners"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?

Some features in Oracle DB Enterprise Edition are missing in the XE edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RK
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Oracle Database free version"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sonal G.
SG
Staff Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to use database"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh D.
RD
Staff Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Advanced edition and feasible to use"
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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Database Express Edition (XE)?

The maximum user data is limited to 12GB which is a disadvantage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oracle Statistics Review"
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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monojit R.
MR
Principal consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Price to performance ration is phenomenon. The best managed database in the market."
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meghashyam K.
MK
Oracle Database Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"I am an Oracle database developer and I can see the survey is very good i can rate my self 10/10"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nikhil M.
NM
Senior DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to configure for a DBA"
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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