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IBM Security QRadar vs Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Security QRadar
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
2nd
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
218
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (11th), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (4th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (8th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (9th)
Oracle Security Monitoring ...
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
55th
Ranking in User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)
31st
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of IBM Security QRadar is 5.6%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Security QRadar5.6%
Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service0.7%
Other93.7%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

HarshBhardiya - PeerSpot reviewer
SOC Engineer at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Have managed daily asset and alert monitoring effectively but have encountered limitations with manual processes and interface usability
It's still very manual and doesn't work on its own. It's still in an early stage and not on par where we can consider it a really successful detection system. The accuracy is not there. The UI could be better when compared to Sentinels where we can use flags and tagging. It could be much more user-friendly. IBM Security QRadar has all features and is fully competitive with other SIEM tools, but when it comes to user-friendliness, a new user takes time to get used to it. More intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and more helpful documentation would be beneficial. The query searching and data fetching could be faster. In large to very large organizations with around 5,000 or 6,000 assets or beyond, even with proper configurations and RAM and hardware backing up, the query is fairly slow.
it_user1640529 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO, CTO at Genex Infosys Ltd.
Easy to install, highly secure standards, and reliable
We use Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service for security information, event management, and analytics. This has helped eliminate any external network attacks The security level that they are maintaining with the pre-authentication keys is very good. They are following the global…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"There is a single dashboard that gives us a complete overview of what is happening around the globe."
"The most valuable features of IBM Security QRadar are flexibility, IBM support, and scalability."
"IBM Security QRadar has significantly improved our incident response procedures."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use and that it provides good return on investments."
"This is a distributed application, meaning that a customer can stack small and then scale it so that they can expand pretty effectively. You can use, basically, the same product in an SMB or a large enterprise."
"This solution provides amazing visibility into the network and endpoints."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its artificial intelligence component, Watson. Its contribution is pretty good from a machine-learning artificial intelligence perspective. This compliments the orchestration automation component, as well."
"IBM Qradar has great data reduction, and we have several hundred million log records arrive on various of the platforms daily and have been able to tune them to alert on important things well, with very few false positives."
"The security level that they are maintaining with the pre-authentication keys is very good."
"The solution is not expensive for the data security measure you receive, it is reasonable."
 

Cons

"Reporting should be very good, and a proper integration with cloud, not only the IBM cloud, but with other clouds also."
"It can have more integration. It should have more flexible RESTful APIs for integration with applications."
"The threat intelligence functionality can be better. In addition, it can have more monitoring capabilities."
"We did encounter stability issues as IBM’s patches are not stable at all."
"I gave IBM Security QRadar a score of six or seven out of ten because it has a very basic interface; the dashboards require extension management for better usability."
"They should provide more manual examples online so that I can learn it myself."
"Before we didn't have any security issues but recently a few of the user emails were hacked. We had to actually recreate their emails for them."
"It's resource-intensive."
"The solution could improve by providing better documentation for beginners to learn, such as videos or other tutorials."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has a licensing model that is based on events per second so it scales to need and budget."
"Go through a vulnerability assessment review for price breaks. A virtualized solution will also cut down on cost."
"The tool's price is high."
"think the pricing is quite flexible."
"Pricing is good."
"The product is expensive. We have purchased the perpetual license, but we pay for the support."
"On a scale of one to ten, I rate the price a one, where one is an extremely expensive product, and ten is a cheap product."
"IBM Security QRadar is a very expensive tool."
"The solution is not expensive for the data security measure you receive, it is reasonable."
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Comparison Review

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Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 28, 2015
Qradar vs. ArcSight
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business93
Midsize Enterprise39
Large Enterprise107
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Questions from the Community

What are the biggest differences between Securonix UEBA, Exabeam, and IBM QRadar?
It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier GUI and are not licensed based on capacity (amount of logs and information in...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Security QRadar?
I am overall satisfied with the licensing cost for IBM Security QRadar.
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Also Known As

IBM QRadar, QRadar SIEM, QRadar UBA, QRadar on Cloud, IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson
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Sample Customers

Clients across multiple industries, such as energy, financial, retail, healthcare, government, communications, and education use QRadar.
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