Comment by jeltz

From my anecdotal experience: no. It is arcane, user hostile and buggy. And performance for many workloads is roughly in line with open source databases.

Some of the tooling around it is nice and it has some nice features but I would not recommend it even if it was free.

Edit: unless the great database is MySQL, they are actually decent stewards of it and while I still strongly prefer PostgreSQL MySQL is pretty good these days.