OpenStack Barbican vs Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
OpenStack Barbican
docs.openstack.orgOracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
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| Figure | OpenStack Barbican | Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 8 |
| Spec score · Encryption Key Management Software | 7.6 (#9) | 6.6 (#13) |
Plans
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
- Database Cloud Service — first 1 million audit recordsFree
- Processor PerpetualPriced on request
- Database Cloud Service — audit collection over 1 million recPriced on request
- On-premises databases and databases on Compute — first 100 tPriced on request
- On-premises databases and databases on Compute — targets 101Priced on request
- On-premises databases and databases on Compute — targets 301Priced on request
- On-premises databases and databases on Compute — over 500 taPriced on request
- On-premises databases and databases on Compute — audit collePriced on request
In their own words
OpenStack Barbican
OpenStack Barbican is the OpenStack Key Manager service for storing, provisioning, and managing secrets such as keys, certificates, passwords, and raw binary data. Its barbican-api component provides an OpenStack-native REST API for managing secrets; barbican-worker and barbican-keystone-listener are also part of the service. The listener manages Barbican’s database records for Keystone projects when those projects are deleted. A plugin architecture lets operators connect software secret stores or hardware such as HSMs. Documented options include KMIP, Dogtag, and Vault secret-store plugins, as well as PKCS#11 crypto plugins. With PKCS#11, master encryption and HMAC keys can reside in an HSM. Operators can develop plugins for storage, generation, and event handling, though support status may be stable, experimental, or out-of-tree. The default Simple Crypto plugin stores its single encryption key in plaintext in barbican.conf, so service-node access must be restricted carefully. Container ACL settings do not carry over to associated secrets, and ACL functionality requires Keystone integration. Barbican is free under Apache 2.0; installation guidance assumes a working OpenStack deployment.
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.