Nutanix Database Service vs Terracotta comparison

"The most valuable feature is its robust infrastructure management tools."

"AI has been deployed within Nutanix. It's very easy to provision the machine within minutes of the application orders. They can hand those over and work along with the AI team to get the data available quickly for business analysis."

"Nutanix Era effectively reduces operational overheads by streamlining the application team's implementation of multiple environments."

"The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective."

"I like how easy it is to implement MySQL, SQL, and open-source database platforms."

"The efficiency gained by using Nutanix Database Service has led to a positive impact on our business as far as bringing in new applications and workloads."

"With Oracle, it took around one hour to refresh the database and now, with Nutanix, it takes a quarter of that time."

"It has some very good features. It really works with multiple silos in terms of infrastructure, database updates, and migration. So many things are easy with Era."

"The impact of Terracotta's high availability and failover capabilities on the organization's data consistency and reliability is significant."

"It should be able to be consumed by other customers because only the enterprise cloud customers are able to buy this software."

"Nutanix Database Service can be improved by enhancing logging; when we're trying to look for errors, one of the hiccups we always run into is that it's very hard to pinpoint and look through the logs."

"This solution could be improved by integrating with more database providers."

"One of the things that we've discovered specific to SQL is that the deployment options that are available do not match our company standards, so we have asked the Nutanix team if that is something that is customizable or if we need to adjust our deployment strategy."

"The only improvement I would suggest is making the template creation and updating process more straightforward and automated."

"The initial setup was a little tedious and complex. If they could make the setup slightly more user-friendly, then that would definitely be beneficial. If they could give a clear indication of what ports are required across the business and multiple VLANs, then your prep work can be done beforehand and before you do the actual installation. Because the documentation that was provided was not 100 percent accurate, so we had to do a lot of custom firewall rules after we deployed Nutanix Era."

"It would be helpful if Nutanix added a billing system for databases. We need to automate this with a separate solution. We are service providers, so it would be easier for our customers if there were a built-in system that we could use for billing."

"The solution can increase its database compatibility and backup options."

"I know that we have many other solutions that do the same functionality as Terracotta. I don't recall the names of the products now, but I believe there are many products that may be better than Terracotta."

"It's priced fairly... It's a good value. When you go looking for something from Oracle that automates things and makes your life easier, it's always going to be a minimum of $500,000. Era's nothing like that."

"Not everyone can afford it. It's a bit expensive, so the price has to be improved."

"The tool is expensive."

"There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"Pricing wasn't a surprise. It was what we were expecting it to be."

"The licensed-based pricing is confusing and too high."

"The pricing is competitive."

"Licensing costs will be the main scalability problem."