"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"The product is flexible."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"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."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"We would like an option of a hardware-only support solution, but Oracle currently does not provide this."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 2 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 23 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "Less expensive than other high-end solutions this can be a powerhouse for small low-budget companies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "High performing and reliable work environment". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Teradata and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Snowflake, Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and IBM Db2 Warehouse. 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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