We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance 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."Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day."
"Oracle is a stable database."
"Oracle has good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is very helpful. The initial setup is straightforward. I consider the product a strong solution for our customers."
"We use the solution for our Java applications."
"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 reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"SQL installation is pretty tricky. The scalability and customer support also should be improved."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"Oracle Database Appliance could improve by having better integration."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 38 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Vertica. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.
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