Oracle Database Appliance vs Teradata comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 30, 2025

Teradata and Oracle Database Appliance are key competitors in the database platform category. Teradata seems to have the upper hand in robust data handling and analytics, while Oracle Database Appliance excels in easy deployment and high transactional performance.

Features: Teradata offers robust parallel processing abilities ideal for fast large data handling and in-depth analytics, praised for easy query tuning and data management. Oracle Database Appliance shines with its easy deployment and high transactional processing performance, integrating database and application layers. The system's virtualization options appeal to mid-size and large-scale enterprises, making it a reliable database environment.

Room for Improvement: Teradata could improve in pricing, cloud service integration, and user interface simplicity. Additionally, enhancing unstructured data handling and cloud capabilities is desired. Oracle Database Appliance users suggest better scalability, virtualization enhancements, and more flexible licensing, as well as reduced setup complexity and improved integrated cloud features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Teradata is deployable across various environments, including on-premises and cloud, and is noted for strong professional support, though response times could improve. Oracle Database Appliance is praised for straightforward deployment and consistent customer service, with occasional technical support delays.

Pricing and ROI: Teradata's high pricing matches its performance and advanced analytics, offering a justified investment for premium projects with positive ROI feedback despite initial costs. Oracle Database Appliance is similarly priced, valued for performance and simplicity in system integration, often preferred for reducing assembly complexity, and delivering substantial ROI by enhancing service efficiency.

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Oracle Database Appliance vs. Teradata

September 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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ROI

Sentiment score

6.1

Oracle Database Appliance provides strong ROI through efficient deployment, quality support, and long-term value, despite higher initial costs.

Sentiment score

8.1

Teradata improved speed, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, achieving significant ROI, enhanced analytics, and reduced staffing needs for users.

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At least fifteen to twenty percent of our time has been saved using Teradata, which has positively affected team productivity and business outcomes.

Senior product analyst at PayPal

We have realized a return on investment, with a reduction of staff from 27 to eight, and our current return on investment is approximately 14%.

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Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.3

Users appreciate Oracle Database Appliance's support for expertise and responsiveness, but report issues with response time and costs.

Sentiment score

7.0

Teradata support is highly rated for professionalism and resources, though some users note slow response times and technical support challenges.

I would rate Oracle support nine or ten out of ten because you can always open a ticket and describe any problems, and the feedback is very quick.

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Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

The customer support for Teradata has been great.

Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The technical support from Teradata is quite advanced.

Principal Consultant & Director at Quensulting

Customer support is very good, rated eight out of ten under our essential agreement.

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Team Leader for Data Base Administrators at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.4

Oracle Database Appliance is scalable and well-suited for small to medium setups, but has mixed reviews for larger enterprises.

Sentiment score

7.4

Teradata offers exceptional scalability and speed, though some users face challenges with hardware requirements and scaling involvement.

All enterprise-grade analytics tools allow rapid scaling, making our business more competitive.

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Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Whenever we need more resources, we can add that in Teradata, and when not needed, we can scale it down as well.

Senior product analyst at PayPal

This expansion can occur without incurring downtime or taking systems offline.

Principal Consultant & Director at Quensulting

Teradata's scalability is great; it's been awesome.

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Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Oracle Database Appliance is stable, with minor setup issues, improved reliability in recent versions, and scalability limitations.

Sentiment score

8.3

Teradata is stable and reliable, with excellent uptime, minimal downtime, and seamless upgrades, though large dataset issues occur.

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The workload management and software maturity provide a reliable system.

Principal Consultant & Director at Quensulting

I find the stability to be almost a ten out of ten.

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Team Leader for Data Base Administrators at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Room For Improvement

Oracle Database Appliance needs faster implementation, scalability improvements, unified admin commands, better support, and increased affordability and integration.

Teradata requires cost-effective improvements in cloud integration, scalability, UI, data processing, analytics, compatibility, support, and pricing.

There is room for improvement in better integration with third-party tools, such as Power BI or Redshift.

Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

For the cloud version, there could be better storage options or more storage for lower prices.

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Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

If the same thing were available in a web interface, that would be really helpful.

Senior product analyst at PayPal

If Teradata could provide a list of certified experts, that would be fantastic.

Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Unlike SQL and Oracle, which have in-built replication capabilities, we don't have similar functionality with Teradata.

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Team Leader for Data Base Administrators at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Oracle Database Appliance costly, but its stability, fast implementation, and included support justify the price.

Teradata offers advanced features and cloud flexibility, though enterprises need careful cost-benefit analysis for its premium pricing.

Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.

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Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Initially, it may seem expensive compared to similar cloud databases, however, it offers significant value in performance, stability, and overall output once in use.

Principal Consultant & Director at Quensulting

Teradata is much more expensive than SQL, which is well-performed and cheaper.

Team Leader for Data Base Administrators at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We spent roughly $295,000 on setup costs.

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Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Valuable Features

Oracle Database Appliance ensures easy deployment, scalability, and high performance with seamless Oracle Cloud integration and flexible licensing.

Teradata excels in fast query processing, scalability, robust security, and cross-platform integration, enhancing performance and reducing administrative effort.

Oracle excels in providing actionable insights and flexible access to data.

Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion.

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Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

It has resulted in better performance improvement within our team as we now cover nine business units instead of 18, thanks to the data performance, which has increased data visibility and helped the enterprise achieve a higher rate of internal return on financials.

Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The first thing that I appreciate about Teradata is its multi-parallel processing. Whatever queries we execute on Teradata, they are blazingly fast, so it offers really fast connectivity.

Senior product analyst at PayPal

The data mover is valuable over the last two years as it allows us to achieve data replication to our disaster recovery systems.

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Team Leader for Data Base Administrators at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Teradata

Ranking in Data Warehouse

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Customer Experience Management (6th), Backup and Recovery (21st), Data Integration (17th), Relational Databases Tools (8th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (13th), Marketing Management (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Database Appliance is 5.2%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teradata is 11.1%, down from 16.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Warehouse Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Teradata	11.1%
Oracle Database Appliance	5.2%
Other	83.7%

Data Warehouse

Featured Reviews

Automated provisioning simplifies deployment and integration

Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

The Oracle Database Appliance is customizable and has excellent features.I don't have any problems with Oracle Database Appliance because this product is very automated, with scheduler and automatic processes throughout. You can make small inferences and changes for creating all the specific modifications. The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion. The Oracle Database Appliance has integration in OCI Cloud. The same services simplify all the manager work regarding backups, configuration, resizing disks, and other services. Deploying the Oracle Database Appliance both on-premises and in the cloud offers the same simplification. You simply input your database name and specify memory quantity, CPU quantity, and database size. The process is identical for both on-premises and cloud deployments. The flexibility of Oracle Database Appliance has helped grow business needs for many customers. Using the Oracle Database Appliance has positively impacted my organization because I can deliver it much more comfortably. Creating a database involves many processes, but with this solution, you just input the name and configure the network and other parameters. It is very similar to RDS in AWS services, where you specify the name, choose the engine, indicate parameter groups, VPC, subnet groups, and proceed. Both Oracle Database Appliance and RDS have greatly simplified the work.

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Has improved data quality, optimized reporting processes, and enabled predictive insights across business units

Interim and Fractional CIO and CTO at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The limitation we encountered was related to speed, prompting us to increase our AWS cloud thresholds and benchmarks on the servers, adding more throughput. We have been testing that, but speed remains one of our key issues. The integration has been awesome because of the platforms and their usage, and usability is great. The most challenging aspect is finding Teradata resources, so we are focusing on internal training and looking for more Teradata experts. If Teradata could provide a list of certified experts, that would be fantastic. I rated Teradata a nine because the main area for improvement is the bandwidth of resources that could assist us in applying to our projects, specifically more certified and expert resources. The market share of Teradata professionals is limited, creating an issue for us.

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Aug 5, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

25%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	26
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	50

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?

While I'm somewhat familiar with standard licensing, pricing isn't really my area of expertise. However, Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.

What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?

For the cloud version, there could be better storage options or more storage for lower prices. However, for on-premises, this is not possible because you have physical disks. In the cloud, more opt...

Comparing Teradata and Oracle Database, which product do you think is better and why?

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...

Which companies use Teradata and who is it most suitable for?

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...

Is Teradata a difficult solution to work with?

Teradata is not a difficult product to work with, especially since they offer you technical support at all levels if you just ask. There are some features that may cause difficulties - for example,...

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Also Known As

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Overview

Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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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.

Sample Customers

LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting

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