Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer vs vCloud Air comparison

Oracle and Virtustream are both solutions in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category. Oracle is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.8, while Virtustream is ranked #16. Oracle holds a 4.0% mindshare in DS, compared to Virtustream’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Virtustream users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 12, 2024

vCloud Air and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer compete in the cloud platform solutions category. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and robust performance, which justify its higher cost.

Features: vCloud Air integrates easily with existing VMware environments, offers flexibility, and provides competitive pricing. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer delivers powerful database management features, superior performance for demanding workloads, and comprehensive support.

Room for Improvement: vCloud Air requires better scalability, performance consistency, and usability enhancements. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer can improve in usability, cost management tools, and deployment complexity.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCloud Air is known for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer support. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer offers detailed guidance and robust support but has a more complex deployment process.

Pricing and ROI: vCloud Air provides attractive pricing and appreciable ROI, especially for SMBs. Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, with higher initial costs, delivers substantial ROI through its high performance and efficiency in large-scale operations.

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Oracle Exadata Cloud at Cus...

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

10th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

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vCloud Air

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

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Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (22nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is 4.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCloud Air is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Wilfredo Silva Huaman

Senior Project Manager at Santander Bank, N.A.

Reduction in database creation time, provides good performance but challenges when interacting with the OCI console

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. However, there are a few things to note. It's not just about being alert with Exadata, but also understanding the OCI console. For instance, companies need to create user group policies to protect against unauthorized access. If you are referencing a compromised system, there's no issue there, because the operating system is Linux. There's no problem when it comes to the basic operations of the database, such as creating, querying, and updating tables. However, we've adopted a new configuration where we're using Docker containers to deploy our applications. This is a new setup for us.

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Saurabh Chandratre

Director Solutions Architect - EMEA & APAC at Blue Medora

With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities.

All three components of the vCloud Air are equally valuable and important, i.e., IaaS, DaaS and RaaS. I like the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering compared to the Dedicated Cloud. It gives me the flexibility to utilize the pay-as-you-go option. You can run your workloads in an active state at reasonable prices. I have seen lots of companies use it for their development work, as well as for hosting SQL and Exchange Servers, i.e., in the active-passive mode instead of Replication (RaaS). Disaster Recovery is also a great feature that is affordable and easy to use. Disaster Recovery is a great component of the vCloud Air, where you can protect the on-premises cloud infrastructure, by providing self-service recovery options using the vSphere Replication. Some of the features that really stand out and I have used in my projects are: * Direct Connect: It provides high speed and private line connectivity. * Offline Data Transfer: For encrypted bulk data transport.

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

35%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

The pricing is reasonable due to a universal agreement, which often positions Oracle solutions better against others. I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer?

Scalability is not straightforward, as you can scale up and not down. Improvements could be made to make scalability more flexible.

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Overview

Oracle Cloud@Customer brings Oracle’s complete portfolio of public cloud infrastructure, fully managed cloud services, and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications into your data center. It enables you to run applications faster and lower your costs using the same high-performance capabilities, autonomous operations, and low-cost subscription pricing in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You get all this while maintaining complete control of your data so you can address data residency, security, and connectivity concerns.

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vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.

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