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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Analytics Platform System and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"Helps our customers to discover trends, which provides useful information based on their business.""Microsoft Analytics Platform System's most valuable feature is its ecosystems and seamless integration with other Microsoft reporting platforms and databases.""I like that it's integrated with other Azure products.""This is a well-integrated solution and that integration empowers results.""We leverage its capabilities for many applications. We can integrate with our databases, like Oracle, MySQL, or any other, using Microsoft Integration Services.""This solution will connect to any database, you can combine databases, and you can create a cube or tabular model.""It is closely integrated with other products in the MS portfolio.""The Cube Solution is quite different when compared to the rest of the competition and has unique functionality for advanced analytics."

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"The most valuable feature is the time to solution.""The ease of setup is an eight out of ten.""It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance.""The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network.""This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases.""It is a scalable solution.""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.""We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."

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Cons
"The flexibility of this solution needs to be improved because you cannot make changes at every one of the different steps.""Machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities need to be more friendly for beginning users.""I think the biggest problem with the product is that it does a data ingest model, which is very expensive.""Microsoft Analytics Platform System could have better support.""Functionality needs to be more up-to-date with competing products.""We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us.""The pricing model needs to be improved.""Releases of new products and functionality is never accompanied by associated documentation, training and resources that adequately explain the release."

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"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly.""The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution.""Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second.""There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements.""Oracle Exadata compatibility with the analytics could be better and the OBIEE could improve. Oracle BI to Exadata needs to be improved. Even if the full analytics practice for Oracle should be improved and when compared with other solutions it is weak.""We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation.""Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems.""Patching must be simplified."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The initial price is lower than Oracle, but extensive use of SQL may lead to a higher total cost of ownership."
  • "Users have to pay extra for premium-level technical support."
  • "We are currently paying $200,000 a year for all the different parts of the suite during an ingest model Microsoft now charges us $700,000 a year."
  • "I rate Microsoft Analytics Platform System a seven out of ten for pricing."
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  • "In the sizing phase, you can also decide whether to license all cores, or reduce the number cores using capacity-on-demand features of Exadata, as well. This has a direct impact on licensing."
  • "The Initial investment price could use improvement"
  • "I think it's free."
  • "The price is very high."
  • "Exadata is an expensive tool, but, considering the ROI, it's worth going for the solution."
  • "Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
  • "It is an expensive product and you pay more for certain performance enhancements."
  • "All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We leverage its capabilities for many applications. We can integrate with our databases, like Oracle, MySQL, or any other, using Microsoft Integration Services.
    Top Answer:It's not too confusing. It's based on features, and we don't have to buy additional licenses.
    Top Answer:We need better real-time analytics capabilities. It's a bit challenging for us. Moreover, there are some permission limitations.
    Top Answer:It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
    Top Answer:The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases. Less cost would enable most customers to choose the product.
    Top Answer:Patching must be simplified. We have various levels of patching in the solution. Most of them are online, split into various components. A single way of patching would be better.
    Ranking
    17th
    out of 33 in Data Warehouse
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    Rating
    7.5
    2nd
    out of 33 in Data Warehouse
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    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft APS, MS Analytics Platform System
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    Overview
    The Microsoft Analytics Platform System can meet the demands of your evolving data warehouse environment with its scale-out, massively parallel processing integrated system supporting hybrid data warehouse scenarios. It provides the ability to query across relational and non-relational data by leveraging Microsoft PolyBase and industry-leading big data technologies. It offers the lowest price per terabyte for large data warehouse workloads.

    Oracle Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

    The main benefit of Exadata is its speed. It hosts operating systems, CPU memory, and hard drives. It runs all types of databases, including online transaction systems, processors, and data warehouses, while remedying the poor performances of older databases.

    Oracle Exadata features a simple and fast database storage system that protects and backs up your critical data. It accelerates data warehouse performance for faster access to business information and data. It is the ideal database solution for companies looking to build up their infrastructure from scratch.

    Oracle Exadata Database Machine Key Benefits

    • Rapid, reliable, and scalable deployment: Exadata is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for running Oracle databases. Exadata’s deployment is very straightforward since the database servers, storage servers, and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts. This ensures that all your components work seamlessly together. Any Oracle Database application can be seamlessly migrated to and from the Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the original application.

    • Powerful, cutting-edge hardware: Exadata is the most versatile database platform. It uses powerful database servers and a scaled-out, intelligent storage layer.

    • Accelerate database processing: Exadata Storage Server implements a unique, highly efficient database-optimized storage infrastructure that enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the bottlenecks that traditional storage experiences. Each storage server contains CPU processors that are used to offload database processing. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs, but work alongside them to accelerate database workloads.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Exadata stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust performance and its wide variety of database features that make it a comprehensive database solution.

    Adriano S., an IT system integrator at a financial services firm, writes, "Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We are very satisfied with it. The previous equipment used to make a payment for all the government employees used to take at least two days for some of the transactions. Now, it will take hours to make the same amount of payments. Another thing is the flexibility to organize all our databases. We can use it with new features that come with this version of Oracle 19c, which is the container database. With container databases, we can work with many databases, organized, and segregated, and still access the functions and management, the things that most of the technical people like to have in place."

    Paulo X., a sales manager at LTA-RH Informatica, notes, "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."

    Sample Customers
    Transport for London, E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG, Prometeia, Tangerine, SSM Health Care, Service Corporation International
    PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company10%
    University10%
    Government9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Insurance Company16%
    Computer Software Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs. Oracle Exadata
    March 2024
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    Microsoft Analytics Platform System is ranked 17th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Analytics Platform System is rated 6.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Analytics Platform System writes "Offers smooth data integration between systems, but requires better real-time analytics capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". Microsoft Analytics Platform System is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Teradata, IBM Netezza Performance Server and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Analytics Platform System vs. Oracle Exadata report.

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