Oracle Analytics Cloud vs Teradata comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 4, 2026

Teradata and Oracle Analytics Cloud are leading products in the data management and analytics category. Users find Teradata superior in parallel processing and data handling, while Oracle excels in visualization and data integration capabilities.

Features: Teradata provides robust parallel processing, efficient analytics, and scalability, supported by features like "Parallel Everything" design and workload management. It efficiently manages large data volumes. Oracle Analytics Cloud is known for its ease in data integration, strong visualization features, and adaptability, meeting enterprise solution needs.

Room for Improvement: Teradata requires better price competitiveness, cloud services, and support for unstructured data. User interface improvements and big data platform integration are needed. Oracle Analytics Cloud can enhance affordability, user-friendliness, and its machine learning and AI capabilities. Advanced visualization options are also desired.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Teradata offers flexible deployment options on-premises, cloud, and hybrid, although setup can be complex. Customer service is appreciated for its expertise. Oracle Analytics Cloud focuses on cloud solutions, with high-quality customer service, though some find it costly.

Pricing and ROI: Teradata is seen as a premium, expensive option but provides high ROI in large-scale projects with significant performance improvements. Oracle Analytics Cloud, while scalable, is also considered costly, with benefits aligning with long-term enterprise needs.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Visualization (10th)

Teradata

Ranking in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Customer Experience Management (6th), Backup and Recovery (15th), Data Integration (15th), Relational Databases Tools (6th), Data Warehouse (3rd), Marketing Management (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (3rd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the BI (Business Intelligence) Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Analytics Cloud is 1.3%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teradata is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Teradata	0.9%
Oracle Analytics Cloud	1.3%
Other	97.8%

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Featured Reviews

Vaclav-Biba

BI/DW Consultant at Neit Consulting

Enhanced analytics through metadata-driven reporting with enterprise-level visualizations enables competitive advantage

In my opinion, what can be better in Oracle Analytics Cloud these days is primarily about pricing. I am from the Czech Republic, which is our main market. The situation here in the Czech Republic is that Power BI rules the world. There are two main reasons for this. First, speaking about the Czech Republic specifically, and second, the Power BI pricing model appears cheaper compared to Oracle Analytics Cloud. The pricing model in Microsoft is more straightforward. With Oracle, you have the data visualization and enterprise lines, and to put it simply, both appear as more expensive options for customers trying to get oriented in the segment.

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David Durand Velásquez

Engineers at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Delivers consistent performance and enables advanced analytics across complex data environments

Teradata stands out as a solid platform for managing and analyzing large volumes of data. Its architecture allows information to be processed efficiently while maintaining stable performance, even in highly demanding environments. One of its most notable strengths is the ability to run complex queries at high speed, which is essential for organizations that require timely and reliable analytics. Teradata offers a well-integrated ecosystem that supports working with different types of data and enables scalability as organizational needs grow. Its focus on advanced analytics, integration with modern business intelligence tools, and the ability to operate both on-premise and in the cloud make it a versatile solution for data warehousing and large-scale processing. Teradata's stability, technological maturity, and the availability of strong documentation and best practices are noteworthy. I consider Teradata to be a tool with great potential for any organization looking to enhance its analytical capabilities, optimize data processing, and move toward more data-driven decision-making. Teradata stands out as a solid platform for managing a large volume of data in different projects. Its architecture allows information to be processed efficiently while maintaining stable performance, even in high-demanding environments. A well-integrated AI ecosystem that supports working with different types of data and enables scalability as organizational needs grow across different kinds of enterprises or organizations. The focus on advanced analytics integration with modern business intelligence tools is particularly valuable. Teradata combines a powerful parallel process and optimizing SQL engine with a highly scalable architecture allowing businesses to execute complex queries and analytics in real-time. It supports multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, giving organizations flexibility to choose the setup that best aligns with their strategy. One of the biggest strengths is the ability to unify disparate data sources and support high concurrency, enabling different teams, such as analytics, operations, BI, and data science, to access consistent, trusted data across the enterprise.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It plays a crucial role in facilitating decision-making for various organizational stakeholders."

"This is a stable and scalable solution."

"The specific capability I find important in Oracle Analytics Cloud is that it allows the basic user to easily drag and drop data. I also like that the solution allows the user to decide what to measure and what to see in the reports."

"A valuable feature is the speed of the solution."

"The solution can scale."

"The scalability is acknowledged as pretty good, although my evaluation is limited because I used the tool for a short period."

"The features that I find to be the most valuable are the BAS (Business Analytics), the Narrate feature, and the auto-visualization."

"Oracle Analytics Cloud's most valuable feature is its visualization."

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"Teradata solutions help organizations reduce IT, operations, and maintenance costs; enhance on-time delivery of products and services."

"Teradata combines a powerful parallel process and optimizing SQL engine with a highly scalable architecture allowing businesses to execute complex queries and analytics in real-time."

"Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting."

"It is a stable program."

"If the priority is to find the best tool that can be relied on with less maintenance and good performance, Teradata is definitely a good option, but again, homework must be done to see which one suits the data workloads."

"It's the same as your visual database. I like the fast load feature for data, the BTQ solution is very good, and storage procedures are very fast."

"There are several features of Teradata that I like. One of the most basic is the indexes. I also like that it provides lower TCO. It also has the optimizer feature which is a good feature and isn't found in other legacy systems. Parallelism is also another feature I like in Teradata because when you are running or hosting on multiple systems, you have this shared-nothing architecture that helps. Loading and unloading in Teradata are also really helpful compared to other systems."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of running queries."

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Cons

"The learning curve should be improved, and I'm uncertain if tutorials are readily available or easily accessible. We may have resorted to looking on YouTube for such information. Having easily understandable documents or guides for new users would be beneficial. AI integration would be an interesting feature to add in the next release."

"One area of improvement is associated with more connectors needing to be added such as Microsoft OneDrive, Teradata and a few others. I think the list is limited to the top ones now."

"When we have, for example, a table with low performance, we have several issues with drawing some graphics in the Oracle cloud."

"The product should be improved in terms of connectors; right now the top twenty connectors are available, but OneDrive and Teradata are missing."

"It is less scalable than Snowflake."

"When you implement the product on a small scale, it doesn't generate any ROI."

"One of the major issues is that Oracle Analytics Cloud is not user-friendly, requiring skilled people with proper certifications to work with it successfully."

"The scalability has room for improvement."

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"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."

"Sometimes the large injestion takes days to load data, and some of our stored procedures take two to three days."

"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."

"Teradata is a bit late for the cloud."

"There is a need to improve performance in high transaction processes, as well as the reporting system."

"From my perspective, it would be good if they gave better ITIN/R plugins to use the data for AI modeling, or data science modeling. We can do it now; however, it could be more elegant in terms of interfacing."

"GUI of administrative tools is really outdated."

"There are some ways that the handling of unstructured data could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product’s pricing is expensive. However, feature-wise, it fits the requirements of enterprise customers."

"The tool's pricing is not unreasonable or non-competitive."

"A highly cost-effective solution"

"I don't know the exact cost, but its pricing was good. Its pricing was competitive. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing."

"I rate the product's pricing a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"Oracle Analytics Cloud's pricing is generally higher than that of other vendors."

"I would rate it a five out of five in terms of the value received for the price charge."

"We pay on a monthly basis and it is $10 per user each month."

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"Teradata's licensing is on the expensive side."

"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."

"Teradata is not cheap, but you get what you pay for."

"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."

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for Teradata IntelliFlex, which is very expensive."

"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."

"The solution requires a license."

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Senior Data Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 5, 2015

Netezza vs. Teradata

Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Government

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

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Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	11

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	52

Questions from the Community

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Oracle OBIEE is designed to be relatively easy to set up and has a helpful customer support staff at the ready to assist customers. These are two attributes that make this system quite valuable. OB...

What do you like most about Oracle Analytics Cloud?

The ability to quickly search for and access relevant data is crucial.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Analytics Cloud?

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I have spoken to my colleagues about this comparison and in our collective opinion, the reason why some people may declare Teradata better than Oracle is the pricing. Both solutions are quite simi...

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Before my organization implemented this solution, we researched which big brands were using Teradata, so we knew if it would be compatible with our field. According to the product's site, the comp...

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Oracle Analytics Cloud

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Also Known As

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service, OAC, Oracle Data Visualization, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, ODV

IntelliFlex, Aster Data Map Reduce, , QueryGrid, Customer Interaction Manager, Digital Marketing Center, Data Mover, Data Stream Architecture, Teradata Vantage Enterprise (DIY)

Overview

Oracle Analytics is a complete platform with ready-to-use services for a wide variety of workloads and data.

Oracle Analytics allows businesses to add AI and machine learning capabilities to any application—and as part of our integrated suite of cloud services to comply with data security and connected without disrupting business operations.

Offering valuable, actionable insights from all types of data—in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid deployment—Oracle Analytics empowers business users, data engineers, and data scientists to access and process relevant data, evaluate predictions, and make quick, accurate decisions.

Oracle Analytics Cloud Features

Oracle Analytics Cloud has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Intelligent search
Smart data discovery
Smart data preparation
Natural language
Auto suggest
Visualization
Dashboarding
Global transformation policies
Smart collaboration
Integrated data science
Enterprise architecture and security
Platform extensibility
Smart data connectors

Oracle Analytics Cloud Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Oracle Analytics Cloud. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Flexibility: Oracle Analytics Cloud gives you the flexibility to grow and change as your business does. At the same time, it puts you in complete control of your analytics environment by allowing you to analyze data and accommodate changing demand easily.

Scalable: Oracle Analytics Cloud is a single, centralized solution that provides everything you need in a scalable environment to support varied user requirements for your organization right now and in the future as well.

Comprehensive analytics: With Oracle Analytics Cloud, existing services are combined with new ones to deliver comprehensive analytics in the cloud. It provides everything you need for analytic agility, from fast, fluid self-service discovery to data loading and blending, inline data prep, data enrichment, automatic visualizations, data storytelling, and more.

Cost-effectiveness: The solution is cost-effective and reduces your total cost of ownership (TCO).
Innovation: Use the latest data analytics technologies, such as AI, machine learning, and natural language processing. Oracle Analytics has been recognized by industry experts for its innovations and robust architecture.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Oracle Analytics Cloud solution.

Fabricio Q., Data Analytics Manager, says, “The main functionality is great and everything is pretty standard and easy to use. It's great for consolidation and creating one source of truth. The initial setup is pretty straightforward.”

PeerSpot user, Eric B., Independent Consultant - Oracle BI Applications at Desjardins, mentions “It's really an enterprise solution. It has standard dashboarding functionality. It also has reporting capabilities for producing pixel-perfect reports, bursting large volumes of a document if you need to. It has interactive data discovery functionality, which you would use to explore your data, bring your own data, and merge it with maybe the data from an enterprise data warehouse to get new insights from the pre-existing data. It has machine learning embedded in the solution.”

Gaurav S., Vice President Credit Risk Management at a financial services firm, explains, “From a financial or bank perspective, this product is secure enough. The dashboards, analytics, visualizations, and different reports are valuable for business analytics. The AI/ML enablement is useful, as many reporting tools do not offer machine learning models as of now, without writing customized code.”

Another reviewer, Trinh P., Delivery Manager at Sift Ag, comments, "The specific capability I find important in Oracle Analytics Cloud is that it allows the basic user to easily drag and drop data. I also like that the solution allows the user to decide what to measure and what to see in the reports."

Oracle

Teradata is a powerful tool for handling substantial data volumes with its parallel processing architecture, supporting both cloud and on-premise environments efficiently. It offers impressive capabilities for fast query processing, data integration, and real-time reporting, making it suitable for diverse industrial applications.

Known for its robust parallel processing capabilities, Teradata effectively manages large datasets and provides adaptable deployment across cloud and on-premise setups. It enhances performance and scalability with features like advanced query tuning, workload management, and strong security. Users appreciate its ease of use and automation features which support real-time data reporting. The optimizer and intelligent partitioning help improve query speed and efficiency, while multi-temperature data management optimizes data handling.

What are the key features of Teradata?

Parallel Processing Architecture: Enables efficient handling of substantial data volumes.
Cloud and On-Premise Deployment: Offers seamless adaptability across environments.
Query Tuning: Improves speed and performance of data retrieval processes.
Workload Management: Ensures optimal resource allocation for enhanced performance.
Robust Security: Provides high levels of data protection and system integrity.
Data Integration: Facilitates cohesive data management from multiple sources.
Automation for Real-time Reporting: Enhances timely data insights and decision-making.
Optimizer and Intelligent Partitioning: Further increase query speed and system efficiency.
Multi-Temperature Data Management: Optimizes the handling and retrieval of data.

What benefits and ROI do users look for?

Efficient Data Management: Facilitates smooth integration and processing of diverse data sets.
Scalability: Easy adjustment to increasing or decreasing data requirements.
Improved Performance: Fast query speeds and optimized resource use.
Comprehensive Security: Safeguards data integrity and accessibility.
Ease of Use: Simplifies data handling and operational processes.

In the finance, retail, and government sectors, Teradata is employed for data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytical processing. It handles vast datasets for activities like customer behavior modeling and enterprise data integration. Supporting efficient reporting and analytics, Teradata enhances data storage and processing, whether deployed on-premise or on cloud platforms.

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