We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger."
"The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high."
"It will be MPP, so performance should improve."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"Patching must be simplified."
IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with Amazon Redshift, IBM Netezza Performance Server, IBM Db2 Warehouse, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift.
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