We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"It is a very stable database."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"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."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"The solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"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."
"I believe Oracle must improve its procedure to support the clients. The customer Ready Service must provide more use cases and benchmarks of their infrastructure to support client design decisions. Oracle must audit their partners regularly to guarantee they provide quality service even after been passed on partnership examination."
"Patching must be simplified."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
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