Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse vs Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service comparison

The compared Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service solutions aren't in the same category. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is ranked #12 in CDW , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 5.1% mindshare in the category. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is ranked #10 in DS , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

Oracle Exadata Express Clou...

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Database as a Service (DBaaS) (10th)

Mindshare comparison

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is designed for Cloud Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 5.1%, up 4.4% compared to last year.
Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.

Cloud Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse	5.1%
Snowflake	17.7%
Dremio	9.4%
Other	67.80000000000001%

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Database as a Service (DBaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service	1.0%
Amazon RDS	20.1%
MongoDB Atlas	13.9%
Other	65.0%

Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Featured Reviews

Kwajah Mohiuddin

Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex

We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

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Shrikant Navelkar

Director at Clover Infotech

Have achieved excellent performance and seamless integration with effective cost control in cloud solutions

When customers are migrating from Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service and need to remove some of their test and development environment, what happens in normal virtualization is that they can just switch it off, but in ExaCS, they need to terminate the entire thing. Most of the customers are not aware of this, so they keep spending money even if they want to shut down their UAT environment or development environment, so Oracle needs to make it simpler in terms of reducing the bill on ExaCS when customers want to shut down certain environments. Today, you have to terminate the entire VM, and only then your billing will stop. The only functionality I would expect from Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is that if Oracle is able to support Oracle MySQL Enterprise also on Exadata, that will solve a lot of problems.

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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

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is used globally to deliver extreme performance on large Financial data sets."

"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."

"A very good integration feature that restricts access to unauthorized people."

"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."

"The solution has a self-backup, so you don't need a DBA (database administrator) to do a backup."

"The product has self-repair features."

"The performance and scalability are awesome."

"I loved the simplicity of loading the data and simply relying on the self-tuning capabilities of ADW."

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"One of the most valuable parts of the solution is the high availability within the system and the performance enhancement without making any changes or fine-tuning the databases."

"I like that Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is easier to use and is a cost-saving solution because you won't need to hire people to run and maintain it."

"In the cloud, Exadata is more scalable. The on-prem version was limited. It wasn't that scalable because it only came in a quarter rack, half rack, and full rack. In the cloud, it scales to what you need."

"The solution is very stable and offers great performance."

"The performance of the tool is valuable."

"I highly recommend Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service as a very good solution if you can afford it."

"It is a scalable product."

"I would rate Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service ten out of ten for its overall solution."

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Cons

"There is a need for more storage to be allocated, but over a period of time, it becomes impossible to reduce it after using it."

"We are not satisfied with the technical support. Their understanding is lacking."

"An improvement for us would be the inclusion of support for an internal IP, so we could use it directly with the VCN in Oracle Cloud."

"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."

"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace. The ADB serverless option doesn't support custom tablespace creation, which could cause issues during on-premise database migration that requires specifically named tablespace. There should be an option to create customized tablespace."

"It doesn't work well when you have unstructured data or you need online analytics. It is not as nice as Hadoop in these aspects."

"Optimization should be better."

"The solution lacks visibility options."

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"The only downside is the difficulty in monitoring, and that's why I would like to implement MySQL database."

"The customer's default choice is the on-premise version of this solution. Only when Oracle or the partners like us, can explain to customers the cloud value proposition, and if the compliance authorities allow, they can look into this cloud solution. It will take some time for Oracle to change its perception of customers' de-facto standards. Exadata used to be treated as a black box, which is not the case now. The customer is aware of what is happening inside, how the configurations have been made, and what patching has been applied. Oracle needs to market the cloud version better."

"Scaling Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service can be done, but the process is a little tedious, which could be an area for improvement in the solution."

"Oracle's support could be better."

"We use artificial intelligence for deep learning, and it would be a huge benefit to implement this in Oracle Exadata."

"I feel there is a need for better integration with Google Maps and Google Earth. This is crucial for me in the geographical facilities of the environment."

"The support must be faster."

"The solution's pricing could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."

"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."

"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse's pricing is fair and reasonable compared to the other cloud vendors."

"ROI is high."

"The solution is expensive."

"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."

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"The price of this solution is very comparative to others on the market. There is no direct comparison between this solution and with something else because I do not see any other similar product."

"I think Oracle pricing is usually above average market price."

"The tool is not cheap, but it is not really expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

University

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.

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What do you like most about Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service?

The performance of the tool is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service?

Oracle is quite expensive here in Brazil. Pricing is the primary challenge we face with Oracle.

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Overview

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

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Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service delivers a managed Oracle Database 12c Release 2 Enterprise Edition with options, running on Oracle Exadata engineered systems – all at a highly affordable entry-level price. It is a full Oracle Database experience, compatible with what you get on-premises or in other Oracle Database Cloud Services, provisioned within minutes, and suitable for small to medium sized data.

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