We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."
"Oracle is a stable database."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"The solution is pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error."
"If the database goes down on one of the servers, the load is automatically shifted to another server. You can troubleshoot the one that is down without affecting uptime."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"Oracle has good technical support."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"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."
"The tool's performance is good."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"Oracle Database Appliance could improve by having better integration."
"Technical support is not so great. It could be much better. The maintenance, for an enterprise system, isn't so great. It's also extremely expensive."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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