HPE Apollo Systems vs Oracle SPARC Servers comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Oracle are both solutions in the Rack Servers category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0, while Oracle is ranked #10. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 3.8% mindshare in Rack Servers, compared to Oracle’s 3.7% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

HPE Apollo Systems

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

HPE Apollo Systems and Oracle SPARC Servers are key players in enterprise computing. Users favor Oracle SPARC Servers for their robust features, despite HPE Apollo Systems' competitive pricing and support.

Features: HPE Apollo Systems are favored for their high-density, modular design, flexible configurations, and scalability, optimized for data-intensive tasks. Oracle SPARC Servers are recognized for reliability, security, and superior processing power, ideal for complex workloads.

Room for Improvement: HPE Apollo Systems could improve power consumption, better integration with existing ecosystems, and user experience. Oracle SPARC Servers need enhanced documentation, improved user support services, and simplified user interfaces.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Apollo Systems are known for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service, making them user-friendly initially. Oracle SPARC Servers, despite a steeper learning curve, offer consistent post-deployment support with a knowledgeable team.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Apollo Systems provide cost-effective solutions with scalable configurations offering good ROI. Oracle SPARC Servers, while more expensive, justify higher costs with substantial ROI through performance and security advantages.

To learn more, read our detailed HPE Apollo Systems vs. Oracle SPARC Servers Report (Updated: December 2025).

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HPE Apollo Systems vs. Oracle SPARC Servers

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Apollo Systems

Ranking in Rack Servers

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Density Optimized Servers (3rd)

Oracle SPARC Servers

Ranking in Rack Servers

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Rack Servers category, the mindshare of HPE Apollo Systems is 3.8%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle SPARC Servers is 3.7%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Rack Servers Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Apollo Systems	3.8%
Oracle SPARC Servers	3.7%
Other	92.5%

Rack Servers

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Gökhan DURMAZ

Account Manager at TD SYNNEX

High-quality integration and strong support have optimized our rack server operations

HPE Apollo Systems is a good product because it has better support and best quality with integrity. When I speak about integrity, I speak about GPU integration or other integrations such as GPU integration, backup software integration, and hypervisor integration. Regarding the integration of high-speed interconnectors in HPE Apollo Systems, they impact computational tasks because the high-speed interconnect affects performance. I don't remember the specifics. Regarding the cooling technologies, they help to reduce operational costs. The positive impact I see from HPE Apollo Systems is that support is good and quality is good. In general, HPE Apollo Systems appears to be for rack servers with some optimization capabilities.

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Abdul-Salam

Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International

A rock-solid OS and rich virtualization features for hosting many VMs on one box

Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform. Oracle is focusing on the cloud platform with a PCA and standard x86 architecture. Linux is their other OS and is mostly in the cloud. We don't see much development happening on Solaris even though it came as an acquisition from Sun Microsystems. Eventually, the solution and its platform will die because there has been no new development on the Solaris end and we haven't seen new servers in the last five years. At this point, we are pretty sure there is no real roadmap or future for the solution. There is a shortage of expert engineers because Oracle is not pushing the technology. It is hard for us to find engineers because the number of people supporting us has considerably reduced.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"HPE Apollo Systems is a good product because it has better support and best quality with integrity."

"When we moved to the Apollo and all flash drives, we gained a lot of performance."

"Apollo Systems provide stuff that standard services do not. More HTDs, more compute power, at very reasonable pricing."

"It's pretty flexible. You can choose how much storage you put on the server. You can have one to three nodes, depending on whether you want more CPU or storage."

"HPE Apollo's pricing is low, and implementation is very easy compared to other products."

"HPE Apollo's support is the most valuable feature."

"The cost benefit of this solution is most valuable. It is quite effective for the work for which we are using it. We are mainly running video servers on these, and we are quite happy with the resilience, density storage, and streaming capacity of the system."

"With HPE Apollo, we can propose configurations with many hard drives, making it suitable for large storage needs."

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"The processor is very helpful and the licensing is very flexible."

"I have found the LDAP facilities most valuable. In addition, I like the CPU."

"The Oracle server is very powerful. They are more powerful and durable compared to Intel hardware. Which has been a benefit to our organization."

"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that Oracle Database functions very well with Oracle SPARC Servers."

"The performance is the best feature."

"Our customers are happy with many features in Oracle SPARC Servers, like the automatic ASR feature."

"The operating system is rock solid and the best I have ever used."

Cons

"What's coming out in Gen 10 is very strong in terms of additional security."

"We could, perhaps, use more GPUs in the future, go from eight to 16 GPUs per instance. That could run head-to-head against the DGX-1, the DGX-2 that NVIDIA has developed in their own chassis. That would be interesting to see."

"Lustre seems to be just a little bit unstable overall."

"One drawback which I had: When I needed to expand storage on the Apollo, I had significant problems getting disks for it. It was a very long wait-time. So, if I were to give any advice in regards to improving this product, I would say make more of the 8TB disks available quicker."

"We would like to see SimpliVity on top of the Apollo."

"We are quite happy with it, but its price and storage density can be better."

"We would like to see improved cooling because that is quite an issue. If you put that much compute power into a single rack, cooling really becomes an issue. And there is room for improvement there."

"We have tried to used standardization using Ubuntu Linux and it's been hard. They had some difficulties getting the RAID configuration up and running because there are no drivers for it. It's not supported by HPE."

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"Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform."

"They need some sort of modeling because IBM has different types of models."

"Oracle SPARC Servers should be fine-tuned well enough to work with the other servers and software products in the market, as it is an area where Oracle SPARC Servers lack."

"The solution could improve by giving a clear roadmap about the future. I'm not seeing a lot of improvements on the OS side of the software. They need to work more on the operating system."

"I would like to see a reduced price point."

"They have declared the end of life of the hardware."

"Like IBM, Oracle SPARC Servers should be able to run other open operating systems like Linux."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Obviously I would like to see the cost go down. That speaks for itself."

"There is an annual license required to use HPE Apollo."

"The price of the solution is more expensive than Dell which is their main competitor. However, there are times we have managed to receive a comparable price."

"It is an expensive solution but it is worth the money. The standard licensing cost is for the GPU and the features that someone is using. There are additional charges but they depend on the solution."

"Compared to other products, HPE Apollo is not an expensive solution."

"The licensing is flexible."

"My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs attached to the solution."

"The hardware is expensive but it has very rich virtualization features that make it economical."

"Oracle SPARC Servers are expensive to manage, this is because after five years Oracle will increase the support charges for the hardware. The licensing policy for Oracle is different for Intel and Sparc. It will cost you less if you use your Oracle hardware with Oracle SPARC Servers."

"The application running on it is very important to us and this makes the price worth it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with HPE Apollo?

Some features could be added to HPE Apollo Systems in the future, and I feel that some capability is needed. HPE Apollo Systems is a bit expensive, and there are some issues with scalability. Two f...

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What is your primary use case for HPE Apollo?

I have been distributing this product for three years. I don't have specific use cases, and everything about the major use case for HPE Apollo Systems is good. I don't know the purpose clients are ...

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What advice do you have for others considering HPE Apollo?

I am not using these products today, and I do not work with some specific firewalls. My company is TD Synnex, a distributor company, and I work for this company. My email is , and my first name is ...

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Overview

The HPE Apollo high-density server family is built for the highest levels of performance and efficiency. They are rack-scale compute, storage, networking, power and cooling – massively scale-up and scale-out – solutions for your big data analytics, object storage and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. From water-cooling that’s 1,000X more efficient than air, to “right-sized scaling” with 2X the compute density for workgroup and private cloud workloads, the HPE Apollo line is a dense, high-performance, tiered approach for organisations of all sizes.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Oracle's SPARC S7, T7, and M7 Servers with always-on memory intrusion protection and comprehensive data encryption secure data with no performance penalty. Security in silicon features and Oracle Solaris protect data in memory from unauthorized access and stop malware before it gets in.

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