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Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Database Appliance
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Amazon Redshift and Oracle Database Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
S Paul Choudhury
A scalable solution that helps handle unstructured data and offers good support for the data lake
We have been using the product for some time. We are exploring and learning from the new offering of the product.
Mert Yılmaz
Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement
Nowadays, we try not to use the Oracle Database Application for our customers or new customers, maybe because Oracle pushes us to use their software.
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Pros
"The main benefit is that our portal for end users is running in AWS, so we can easily connect it to other AWS services.""I found the Amazon Redshift computing services easy. I found the computing instances the most incredible in the solution.""The solution's flexibility is its most valuable feature. It's also easy to scale and has relatively painless pricing.""You can copy JSON to the column and have it analyzed using simple functions.""Amazon Redshift offers a relatively flexible structure...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.""The most valuable feature of Redshift is its cluster.""Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature.""Redshift's Excel features are handy. Redshift spectrum allows you to directly query the data on an Excel sheet. Now, SQL Server also allows this, but Redshift has many more features."

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"I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes.""The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.""Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time).""The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management.""Oracle has good technical support.""Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years.""Oracle is a stable database.""We use the solution for our Java applications."

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Cons
"In the next release, a pivot function would be a big help. It could save a lot of time creating a query or process to handle operations.""I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution.""Planting is the primary key enforcement that should be improved.""The solution could improve in handling more data formats and more native support for RDF.""Running parallel queries results in poor performance and this needs to be improved.""Redshift's GUI could be more user-friendly. It's easier to perform queries and all that stuff in Azure Synapse Analytics.""In terms of improvement, I believe Amazon Redshift could work on reducing its costs, as they tend to increase significantly. Additionally, there are occasional issues with nodes going down, which can be problematic.""It would be nice if we could turn off an instance. However, it would retain the instance in history, thus allowing us to restart without beginning from scratch."

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"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else.""Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve.""Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software.""The setup is a bit complex.""Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required.""In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing.""Oracle Database Appliance patching comes out two to three months after the regular patching cycle.""It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Redshift is very cost effective for a cloud based solution if you need to scale it a lot. For smaller data sizes, I would think about using other products."
  • "If you want a fixed price, an to not worry about every query, but you need to manage your nodes personally, use Redshift."
  • "BI is sold to our customer base as a part of the initial sales bundle. A customer may elect to opt for a white labeled site for an up-charge."
  • "One of my customers went with Google Big Query over Redshift because it was significantly cheaper for their project."
  • "Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive."
  • "It's around $200 US dollars. There are some data transfer costs but it's minimal, around $20."
  • "The best part about this solution is the cost."
  • "The part that I like best is that you only pay for what you are using."

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  • "Get benefit from the capacity-on-demand features. License your cores according to your licenses."
  • "Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."
  • "In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution."
  • "The price should be lower."
  • "You must pay for the license."
  • "The price of the solution should be less expensive. However, they will increase the price more."
  • "I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."
  • "Compared to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance is affordable."

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    Questions from the Community
    How does Amazon Redshift compare with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics?
    Top Answer:Amazon Redshift is very fast, has a very good response time, and is very user-friendly. The initial setup is very straightforward. This solution can merge and integrate well with many different… more »
    What do you like most about Amazon Redshift?
    Top Answer:Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Redshift?
    Top Answer:The product is quite expensive.
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    What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?
    Top Answer:The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database A...
    Top Answer:The product is costly. However, it is the price is justifiable for the excellent technology it offers.
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    What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?
    Top Answer:They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform.
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    Ranking
    4th
    out of 18 in Cloud Data Warehouse
    Views
    8,203
    Comparisons
    6,066
    Reviews
    23
    Average Words per Review
    480
    Rating
    7.7
    6th
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    3,045
    Comparisons
    2,195
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    354
    Rating
    7.8
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    Overview

    What is Amazon Redshift?

    Amazon Redshift is a fully administered, petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse service. Users are able to begin with a minimal amount of gigabytes of data and can easily scale up to a petabyte or more as needed. This will enable them to utilize their own data to develop new intuitions on how to improve business processes and client relations.

    Initially, users start to develop a data warehouse by initiating what is called an Amazon Redshift cluster or a set of nodes. Once the cluster has been provisioned, users can seamlessly upload data sets, and then begin to perform data analysis queries. Amazon Redshift delivers super-fast query performance, regardless of size, utilizing the exact SQL-based tools and BI applications that most users are already working with today.

    The Amazon Redshift service performs all of the work of setting up, operating, and scaling a data warehouse. These tasks include provisioning capacity, monitoring and backing up the cluster, and applying patches and upgrades to the Amazon Redshift engine.

    Amazon Redshift Functionalities

    Amazon Redshift has many valuable key functionalities. Some of its most useful functionalities include:

    • Cluster administration: The Amazon Redshift cluster is a group of nodes that contains a leader node and one (or more) compute node(s). The compute nodes needed are dependent on the data size, amount of queries needed, and the query execution functionality desired.
    • Cluster snapshots: Snapshots are backups of a cluster from an exact point in time. Amazon Redshift offers two types of snapshots: manual and automated. Amazon will store these snapshots internally in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) utilizing an SSL connection. Whenever a Snapshot restore is needed, Amazon Redshift will create a new cluster and will import data from the snapshot as directed. 
    • Cluster access: Amazon Redshift provides several intuitive features to help define connectivity rules, encrypt data and connections, and control the overall access of your cluster.
    • IAM credentials and AWS accounts: The Amazon Redshift cluster is only accessible by the AWS account that created the cluster. This automatically secures the cluster and keeps it safe. Inside the AWS account, users access the AWS Identity and IAM protocol to create additional user accounts and manage permissions, granting specified users the desired access needed to control cluster performance.
    • Encryption: Users have the option to choose to encrypt the clusters for additional added security once the cluster is provisioned. When encryption is enabled, Amazon Redshift will store all the data in user-created tables in a secure encrypted format. To manage Amazon Redshift encryption keys, users will access AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

    Reviews from Real Users

    “Redshift's versioning and data security are the two most critical features. When migrating into the cloud, it's vital to secure the data. The encryption and security are there.” - Kundan A., Senior Consultant at Dynamic Elements AS

    “With the cloud version whenever you want to deploy, you can scale up, and down, and it has a data warehousing capability. Redshift has many features. They have enriched and elaborate documentation that is helpful.”- Aishwarya K., Solution Architect at Capgemini

    Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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    Comms Service Provider14%
    Retailer11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Educational Organization50%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Computer Software Company7%
    Manufacturing Company4%
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    Financial Services Firm32%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Retailer11%
    Transportation Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government8%
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    Small Business40%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise37%
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise54%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise37%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 58 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". Amazon Redshift is most compared with AWS Lake Formation, Snowflake, Vertica, Teradata and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. See our Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.

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