Global Survey Shows Oracle Database Users are Adapting Their Strategies Due to High Costs, Support Issues, and Demand for Enhanced AI/ML Features
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Nov 04 2025
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Cost Savings and Support Challenges: Oracle Database customers are facing high support costs and quality issues, with 63% expressing dissatisfaction with Oracle's support services, prompting many to consider third-party support options.
Adoption of Third-Party Support: The survey indicates a growing trend towards third-party support, with 25% of organizations currently using it and 30% considering it, particularly for cloud database management and performance tuning.
Exploration of Alternative Database Solutions: Many Oracle Database users are diversifying their database strategies, with 77% deploying new applications on non-Oracle databases due to high costs and support gaps, including SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
Integration of AI/ML Capabilities: While there is a demand for native support for large language models (LLMs), many users are unaware that Oracle has already integrated such support in recent versions, which could enhance their AI initiatives without additional costs.
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Rimini Street, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software support products and services. The Company's subscription and fee-based software services offer enterprise software licensees a choice of solutions that replace or supplement the support products and services offered by enterprise software vendors. Its products and services seek to enable its clients to keep their systems operating and to remain in tax, legal and regulatory compliance; improve productivity; and allocate limited budgets, labor, and other resources to investments. Its software support products and service offerings cover a range of enterprise software vendors, product families and product lines. Its supported vendor or product category includes SAP Applications, SAP Databases, Oracle Applications, Oracle Technology, Oracle Databases, Microsoft Databases, IBM Databases, Open-Source Databases, Salesforce, and Other Software. The Company also offers a special support service, Rimini Street Extra Secure Support.
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Emily J. Thompson
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