We performed a comparison between AWS Lake Formation and Oracle Exadata 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."It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
"The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients."
"The solution has many features that are applicable to events such as audits."
"The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them."
"We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"The data replication is very good."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"The tool's performance is good."
"The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant."
"It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data."
"In our experience what could be improved are not the support, performance or monitoring, but at a managerial level, the very expensive professional services of AWS. This could be an area of improvement for them. It's too expensive to acquire their support."
"For the end-users, it's not as user-friendly as it could be."
"AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"I believe Oracle must improve its procedure to support the clients. The customer Ready Service must provide more use cases and benchmarks of their infrastructure to support client design decisions. Oracle must audit their partners regularly to guarantee they provide quality service even after been passed on partnership examination."
"The solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"Patching must be simplified."
AWS Lake Formation is ranked 12th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. AWS Lake Formation is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AWS Lake Formation writes "Strategically aligning data management in a multi-cloud environment with significant reporting challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". AWS Lake Formation is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and BigQuery, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our AWS Lake Formation vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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