We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."The most valuable feature of the solution is the analytics and that it can connect with Power BI."
"The pricing seems to be quite fair."
"I like its performance. It is well-structured and offers a lot of practical options. Because of the visual design of the product, it is very easy to find icons and other visual elements. It took me more than two weeks to understand how it works. I had an intensive training session to understand it, which was enough. It was not hard to understand how it works."
"The MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) architecture helps to make things a lot faster."
"The product is very user friendly."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are its serverless flexibility and complete power have allowed me to explore various different use cases. While I am not an expert in the product, my experience in programming in Databricks has shown me that Microsoft's investments in Synapse could potentially lead to it becoming a complete replacement for Databricks in the future."
"The solution's best feature is its predictive analytics."
"Very interactive and provides flexibility."
"Before using this machine, we took no less than two days to run a report. Now, we can do it within five hours. So, there is a lot of improvement."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"Unfortunately, we have had some issues with the dashboard reporting. Sometimes, the data for specific periods would just appear blank on the dashboard. To investigate this, we worked with a Microsoft incident agent and it turned out to be a result of bugs in the platform when dealing with specific types of queries in Azure Data Factory."
"The security performance and cost are the two things that needs improvement."
"I'm not entirely happy with the billing model. I'm not entirely happy with how the enterprise services are pretty expensive, but that's about it."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve its compatibility with Visual Studio. One of the challenges for people moving from an on-premise to a cloud solution, such as Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, is that you're constantly working in a browser. There are people that have been working for decades on desktop applications. For them to start working in a browser, it's quite a change. Allowing people to work and do their work inside Visual Studio than in the browser, would be a large advantage."
"Indicating what areas need improvement in this solution is a difficult question because the organizations that I am working for are really new in this area. However, an even better more simple interface, or perhaps an extension of a connector app store solution, would be helpful."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be better used intuitively by the staff without having a great deal of training."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Snowflake. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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