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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable aspect of this Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its consolidation of technical support from Microsoft, and its ability to securely host large quantities of data within the cloud environment. The overall ability to manage and maintain Big Data within the cloud provides a heightened level of efficiency, reliability, and support from Microsoft. This results in a superior user experience and an increased level of value for the end user.""Data can be stored any way you want in the data warehouse.""I like SQL post, which is for storage and distributed computing. Another good feature is the copy activity.""The solution handles single or complex items within a second.""The solution operates like a typical SQL Server environment so there is no alienation in terms of technical knowledge.""The ability to scale out services on-demand and scale them down when they are not required is most valuable. You are in control of your expenditures, and you are also in control of the horsepower that you need. That's a major advantage.""Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide.""The pricing seems to be quite fair."

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"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution.""NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying.""The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices.""The solution is simple to use and easy to maintain.""The solution is pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error.""Oracle is a stable database.""The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management.""The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."

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Cons
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics's pricing could be reduced.""Synapse Analytics needs to develop an automation framework because now you have to build a cache yourself. You have to build a pipeline in WhereScape, which does end-to-end pipeline automation well. Microsoft should come up with a framework to save people time. If they developed a tool like WhereScape, it would dramatically reduce development time.""We encountered data processing and transformation issues while working with Apache Spark languages for the product.""In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the performance, there are other solutions that are better, such as Databricks.""The product could be more feature-rich.""There may be some challenges in terms of connecting with Virtual Networks (VNETs) to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics.""I would like my team to be able to build pipelines that integrate with the Azure Data Factory.""The solution should offer a serverless model like Snowflake."

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"In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing.""If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this.""Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve.""I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine.""In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution.""The license cost could be cheaper, especially for long-term contracts.""The setup is a bit complex.""Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of this solution could be improved."
  • "The pricing is okay. You can pay as you go."
  • "This solution starts at €1000.00 a month for just the basics and can go up to €300,000.00 per month for the fastest version."
  • "When we are not using this solution we can simply shut it down saving us costs, which is a nice advantage."
  • "The licensing fees for this solution are on a pay-per-use basis, and not very expensive."
  • "All of the prices are available online."
  • "Our license is very expensive"
  • "They are cost aggressive, and it integrates well with other Microsoft tools."
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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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    Also Known As
    Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL DW, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, MS Azure Synapse Analytics
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    Overview

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that successfully combines analytical services to merge big data analytics and enterprise data warehouses into a single unified platform. The solution can run intelligent distributed queries among nodes, and provides the ability to query both relational and non-relational data.

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:

    1. Synapse SQL
    2. Spark
    3. Synapse Pipeline
    4. Studio

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Features

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has many valuable key features, including:

    • Cloud Data Service: WIth Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can operate services (data analytics, machine learning, data warehousing, dashboarding, etc.) in a single workspace via the cloud.

    • Structured and unstructured data: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics supports both structured and unstructured data and allows you to manage relational and non-relational data - unlike data warehouses and lakes that tend to store them respectively.

    • Effective data storage: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers next-level data storage with high availability and different tiers.

    • Responsive data engine: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics uses Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) and is designed to handle large volumes of data and analytical workloads efficiently without any problems.

    • Several scripting languages: The solution provides language compatibility and supports different programming languages, such as Python, Java, Spark SQL, and Scala.

    • Query optimization: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics works well to facilitate limitless concurrency and performance optimization. It also simplifies workload management.

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics include:

    • Database templates: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers industry-specific database templates that make it easy to combine and shape data.

    • Better business insights: With Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can expand discovery of insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to all your intelligent apps.

    • Reduce project development time: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics makes it possible to have a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics, which reduces project development time significantly.

    • Eliminate data barriers: By using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, you can perform analytics on operational and business apps data without data movement.

    • Advanced security: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics provides both advanced security and privacy features to ensure data protection.

    • Machine Learning: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics integrates Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Power BI.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics users who are currently using the solution.

    PeerSpot user Jael S., who is an Information Architect at Systems Analysis & Design Engineering, comments on her experience using the product, saying that it is “Scalable, intuitive, facilitates compliance and keeps your data secure”. She also says "We also like governance. It looks at what the requirements are for the company to identify the best way to ensure compliance is met when you move to the cloud."

    Michel T., CHTO at Timp-iT, mentions that "the features most valuable are the simplicity, how easy it is to create a dashboard from different information systems."

    A Senior Teradata Consultant at a tech services company says, "Microsoft provides both the platform and the data center, so you don't have to look for a cloud vendor. It saves you from having to deal with two vendors for the same task."


    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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    Toshiba, Carnival, LG Electronics, Jet.com, Adobe, 
    LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
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    Midsize Enterprise18%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance
    March 2024
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    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 38 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 8.0, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Azure Data Factory. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.

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