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"​It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time.​""The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature.""One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL.""The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts.""It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions.""I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets.""We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it.""The solution's integration is good."

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"The performance due to the all-flash of ODA is very nice.""I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes.""The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution.""Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years.""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 pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error.""The most valuable feature is the 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."

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"The most valuable features are the large volume of data and the structuring of the data to optimize it and get very optimal data warehouse solutions for customers.""The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation.""It is a solid database a lot of different tools to move data.""It has given our business the ability to gain insights into the data and create data labs for analysis and PoCs.""A conventional and easily defined way to build a data warehouse or a layer of data marts.""Their extensive experience in data warehousing, the platform's performance, and their strong reputation in the market are the most valuable.""It has massive parallel processing ability to do large amounts of concurrent querying.""The key advantages are Performance when processing Terabytes of data and scalability."

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Cons
"​Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution.""Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced.""It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base.""It could offer more development across the solution.""In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating.""The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data.""I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates.""We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."

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"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance.""The solution's initial setup is not easy.""Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software.""In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing.""The license cost could be cheaper, especially for long-term contracts.""I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions.""The setup is a bit complex.""They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."

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"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity.""I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web.""The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud.""The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial.""There is some improvement required on OLTP level and some analytical function is missing.""Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly.""Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives.""The solution needs improvement in its stability, support and pricing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I think the program is well-priced compared to the other offerings that are out in the market."
  • "Microsoft has an agreement with the government in our country, so our customers get their licensing costs from the Ministry. Whenever we work with any government, company, or government institute, which is mainly what we are doing, that license comes directly from the Ministry of Technology and Information."
  • "All the features that we use do not require any additional subscription or yearly fees."
  • "Technical support is an additional fee and is expensive."
  • "The solution's pricing is fairly decent for organizations with huge data sizes."
  • "The tool could be expensive if we need to manage a lot of data."
  • "They offer an annual subscription. The pricing depends on the size of the environments."
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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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  • "Teradata is not cheap, but you get what you pay for."
  • "Make sure you have the in-house skills to design and support the solution, as relying on external sources is extremely costly and tends to lock you into specific platforms, tools, and paradigms."
  • "In the past, it turned out that other solutions, in order to provide the full range of abilities that the Teradata platform provides plus the migration costs, would end up costing more than Teradata does."
  • "The initial cost may seem high, but the TCO is low."
  • "Teradata is currently making improvements in this area."
  • "It is still a very expensive solution. While I very much like the pure technological supremacy of the software itself, I believe Teradata as a company needs to become more affordable. They are already losing the market to more flexible or cheaper competitors."
  • "Teradata is expensive but gives value for money, especially if you don't want to move your data to the cloud."
  • "Price is quite high, so if it is really possible to use other solutions (e.g. you do not have strict requirements for performance and huge data volumes), it might be better to look at alternatives from the RDBMS world."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time.
    Top Answer:They offer an annual subscription. The pricing depends on the size of the environments.
    Top Answer:Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area… more »
    Top Answer:Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.
    Top Answer:On a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is cheap and 10 is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing 7.5 or 8 out of 10.
    Top Answer:The solution’s pricing could be improved.
    Top Answer: I have spoken to my colleagues about this comparison and in our collective opinion, the reason why some people may… more »
    Top Answer: Before my organization implemented this solution, we researched which big brands were using Teradata, so we knew if it… more »
    Top Answer:Teradata is not a difficult product to work with, especially since they offer you technical support at all levels if you… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft PDW, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, MS Parallel Data Warehouse
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    Overview

    The traditional structured relational data warehouse was never designed to handle the volume of exponential data growth, the variety of semi-structured and unstructured data types, or the velocity of real time data processing. Microsoft's SQL Server data warehouse solution integrates your traditional data warehouse with non-relational data and it can handle data of all sizes and types, with real-time performance.

    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.

    Teradata is a multi-cloud data platform company that provides data warehouse and relational database tools. The brand has an extensive portfolio of big data analytic solutions, integrated marketing applications, and services. The products that Teradata offers can be categorized in the following ways:

    • Software: The products in this category include Teradata Vantage, an advanced SQL engine and Teradata database.

    • Cloud: The solutions can work with popular cloud services such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and VMware. Teradata Cloud and customer cloud are also included in this product category.

    • Ecosystem management: The products in this section include IntelliSphere, business continuity manager, data lab, data mover, data stream, QueryGrid, and viewpoint.

    • Hardware: This category includes backup, archive, and restore (BAR) and IntelliFlex.

    • Applications: Master data management (MDM) and Teradata analytics for enterprise applications are the two products in this category.

    One of the most popular and commonly used products by Teradata is Teradata Vantage. This is a connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics. The product unifies data lakes, analytics, and data warehouses, as well as data sources and types. The solution offers its customers scalability, which allows them to scale dimensions to handle massive workloads of data. Teradata Vantage utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to power more models and enhance quality.

    Through Vantage Console, businesses can benefit from role-based, no-code software to organize and manage their data. The product offers deployment on many popular public clouds, on premises, and on commodity hardware. Teradata Vantage unifies and integrates all data types from sources and provides companies with a single source of information. It achieves this by supporting all common data types and formats. The product also provides organizations with tools for monitoring, analyzing, and connecting data throughout the organizations.

    Part of this product is also VantageCloud, which offers a modern cloud-native architecture as well as hybrid and multi-cloud deployment options. This solution offers new ways for clients to deploy their platforms. These include the next-generation, cloud-native architecture of Teradata VantageCloud Lake.

    Teradata Features

    The different products that Teradata offers have various features which facilitate data management for customers. Some of the key capabilities of the solutions offered by Teradata include:

    • Connectivity: Users can benefit from connections to the mainframe or network-attached systems. The product provides its own extension for interaction with data stored in the tables. It also supports SQL.

    • Linear scalability: Teradata solutions are highly scalable and linear. The solution can handle large volumes of data effectively while also supporting the ability to scale up to 2048 nodes.

    • Load and unload utilities: The product offers features to move data in and out of the product's system effectively.

    • Mature optimizer: Part of this feature is Teradata Optimizer, which is an advanced product that can handle up to 64 joins in a single query.

    • Robust utilities: The solution includes multiple robust utilities in this category of features that facilitate data handling in and out of the product's systems. The tools include MultiLoad, FastLoad, and FastExport.

    • Shared nothing architecture: This set of features, connected to the architecture of Teradata, is known as “shared nothing architecture” because the nodes, processors, and disks all work independently. These capacities ensure better value for a given task.

    • Unlimited parallelism: These features divide large volumes of data into smaller processes that are executed in parallel. This contributes to the execution of complex tasks in a timely manner.

    Teradata Benefits

    Through its multiple solutions, Teradata offers various benefits for its clients. Some of these include:

    • The solution facilitates prototype creation and offers faster times for completion.

    • Through Teradata, users are able to use faster, simpler, and easier solutions for data-related tasks.

    • The product eliminates the need for unnecessary data movement, which contributes to performance improvements.

    • Teradata offers developers the ability to decide where in the architecture different parts of an application run.

    • Teradata allows database administrators to manage databases from a single point of control.

    • The solution provides the option to get the same data on multiple deployment options.

    • The product supports Online Analytical Programming (OLAP) functions, which allows it to perform a complex analytical process of data.

    • Teradata uses the Service Workstation to provide a single operation view for the multi-node system of the product.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Martin P., a services manager at Bytes Systems Integration, describes Teradata as a product that is very fast with good database control and excellent support.

    Blaine V., principal at Insight Data Consulting, rates Teradata highly because of its excellent native features, highly stable, and impressive automation.

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