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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse, Oracle Exadata, and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It performs very well overall.""The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it.""The most valuable features are the performance and usability.""It handles high volumes of data very well.""We have complete control over our data.""It is a very stable database.""It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution.""​It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time.​"

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"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten.""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.""Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it.""We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA.""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.""Oracle Exadata is stable.""They just have a lot of products, and they work well together.""The performance of the data is the most important part."

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"The security and audit procedures are the most valuable features.""It provides us with proof of data, we can centralize all of the information, check it, and then provide the information to our users.""It is a robust system.""Data modeling is a valuable feature.""Transformation is a valuable feature of SAP NetWeaver. I can transform the data as per my needs or my client's needs. For example, flat tables can be transformed with respect to our requirements to combine multiple modules into one single table, and we can derive analytics.""A robust and efficient product.""It's an excellent over-all tool for managers to analyze their business."

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Cons
"More tools to help designers should be included.""If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data.""Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features.""The product does not have all of the features that the native products have.""The product must provide more frequent updates.""The solution is expensive and has room for improvement.""I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates.""The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."

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"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving.""The performance could be improved.""Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues.""Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time.""The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better.""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.""Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly.""The solution's pricing is very high."

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"The product could provide more features.""Connectors are complex, and it is difficult to understand or know which connector should be used. For instance, if I want to connect APIs, I will not be able to do it directly. I would have to go to the portal integration to get the data. Therefore, having simplified connectors will make things much easier.""There are performance issues in terms of scalability and availability.""It is difficult when your native language is not English. It is difficult for us to explain our issue and also difficult for the technical team to explain a resolution to us.""I think more integration with other applications would be perfect.""Design and modeling could be simplified.""The program is difficult to learn to use"

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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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  • "In the sizing phase, you can also decide whether to license all cores, or reduce the number cores using capacity-on-demand features of Exadata, as well. This has a direct impact on licensing."
  • "The Initial investment price could use improvement"
  • "I think it's free."
  • "The price is very high."
  • "Exadata is an expensive tool, but, considering the ROI, it's worth going for the solution."
  • "Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
  • "It is an expensive product and you pay more for certain performance enhancements."
  • "All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
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  • "Pricing is based on the number of user IDs and tyhe user ID works across a suite of products."
  • "The licensing cost is high for SAP NetWeaver compared to that for other products."
  • "All SAP products are expensive."
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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:It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
    Top Answer:The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases. Less cost would enable most customers to choose… more »
    Top Answer:Patching must be simplified. We have various levels of patching in the solution. Most of them are online, split into… more »
    Ranking
    8th
    out of 35 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    564
    Comparisons
    446
    Reviews
    12
    Average Words per Review
    379
    Rating
    8.0
    2nd
    out of 35 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    8,616
    Comparisons
    6,363
    Reviews
    21
    Average Words per Review
    494
    Rating
    8.7
    15th
    out of 35 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    258
    Comparisons
    183
    Reviews
    3
    Average Words per Review
    314
    Rating
    8.0
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft PDW, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, MS Parallel Data Warehouse
    NetWeaver Business Warehouse, NetWeaver BusinessObjects 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 Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

    The main benefit of Exadata is its speed. It hosts operating systems, CPU memory, and hard drives. It runs all types of databases, including online transaction systems, processors, and data warehouses, while remedying the poor performances of older databases.

    Oracle Exadata features a simple and fast database storage system that protects and backs up your critical data. It accelerates data warehouse performance for faster access to business information and data. It is the ideal database solution for companies looking to build up their infrastructure from scratch.

    Oracle Exadata Database Machine Key Benefits

    • Rapid, reliable, and scalable deployment: Exadata is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for running Oracle databases. Exadata’s deployment is very straightforward since the database servers, storage servers, and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts. This ensures that all your components work seamlessly together. Any Oracle Database application can be seamlessly migrated to and from the Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the original application.

    • Powerful, cutting-edge hardware: Exadata is the most versatile database platform. It uses powerful database servers and a scaled-out, intelligent storage layer.

    • Accelerate database processing: Exadata Storage Server implements a unique, highly efficient database-optimized storage infrastructure that enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the bottlenecks that traditional storage experiences. Each storage server contains CPU processors that are used to offload database processing. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs, but work alongside them to accelerate database workloads.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Exadata stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust performance and its wide variety of database features that make it a comprehensive database solution.

    Adriano S., an IT system integrator at a financial services firm, writes, "Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We are very satisfied with it. The previous equipment used to make a payment for all the government employees used to take at least two days for some of the transactions. Now, it will take hours to make the same amount of payments. Another thing is the flexibility to organize all our databases. We can use it with new features that come with this version of Oracle 19c, which is the container database. With container databases, we can work with many databases, organized, and segregated, and still access the functions and management, the things that most of the technical people like to have in place."

    Paulo X., a sales manager at LTA-RH Informatica, notes, "Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."

    With NetWeaver Business Warehouse, you can quickly Capture, store, and consolidate your vital information with our real-time data warehouse platform. Tightly integrate your warehousing capabilities for a single version of the truth, decision-ready business intelligence, and accelerated operations.
    Sample Customers
    Auckland Transport, Erste Bank Group, Urban Software Institute, NJVC, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe
    PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
    EMC Corporation, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Eldorado, Mozzart, The VELUX Group, AOK Bundesverband, Hilti Group, Nissha Printing Company Ltd., Asian Paints, Aareal Bank Group, Magazine zum Globus (Migros Group)
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Healthcare Company18%
    Hospitality Company12%
    Pharma/Biotech Company12%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Insurance Company7%
    University6%
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Insurance Company16%
    Retailer8%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Transportation Company10%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise65%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business22%
    Large Enterprise78%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise74%
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