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We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Oracle Exadata vs. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain.""The data replication is very good.""The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature.""We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA.""The tool's performance is good.""The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable.""On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform.""Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."

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"The performance of the tool is valuable.""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.""It is a scalable product.""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.""Having the prediction happen in the modular format allows you to start with a lower version of Exadata and then you can keep on upgrading it as per your requirement."

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Cons
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement.""The performance could be improved.""Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second.""It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions.""It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa.""The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement.""Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated.""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."

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"Oracle's support could be better.""The only downside is the difficulty in monitoring, and that's why I would like to implement MySQL database.""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.""The solution's pricing could be improved.""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.""The product's installation process needs improvement. It could be more accessible.""We use artificial intelligence for deep learning, and it would be a huge benefit to implement this in Oracle Exadata.""The support must be faster."

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  • "In the sizing phase, you can also decide whether to license all cores, or reduce the number cores using capacity-on-demand features of Exadata, as well. This has a direct impact on licensing."
  • "The Initial investment price could use improvement"
  • "I think it's free."
  • "The price is very high."
  • "Exadata is an expensive tool, but, considering the ROI, it's worth going for the solution."
  • "Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
  • "It is an expensive product and you pay more for certain performance enhancements."
  • "All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
    Top Answer:The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases. Less cost would enable most customers to choose the product.
    Top Answer:Patching must be simplified. We have various levels of patching in the solution. Most of them are online, split into various components. A single way of patching would be better.
    Top Answer:We can pay the licensing fee monthly. We can also choose to pay upfront for a year. The tool is not cheap, but it is not really expensive. It depends on our usage. I rate the pricing a seven to eight… more »
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    Overview

    Oracle Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

    The main benefit of Exadata is its speed. It hosts operating systems, CPU memory, and hard drives. It runs all types of databases, including online transaction systems, processors, and data warehouses, while remedying the poor performances of older databases.

    Oracle Exadata features a simple and fast database storage system that protects and backs up your critical data. It accelerates data warehouse performance for faster access to business information and data. It is the ideal database solution for companies looking to build up their infrastructure from scratch.

    Oracle Exadata Database Machine Key Benefits

    • Rapid, reliable, and scalable deployment: Exadata is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for running Oracle databases. Exadata’s deployment is very straightforward since the database servers, storage servers, and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts. This ensures that all your components work seamlessly together. Any Oracle Database application can be seamlessly migrated to and from the Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the original application.

    • Powerful, cutting-edge hardware: Exadata is the most versatile database platform. It uses powerful database servers and a scaled-out, intelligent storage layer.

    • Accelerate database processing: Exadata Storage Server implements a unique, highly efficient database-optimized storage infrastructure that enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the bottlenecks that traditional storage experiences. Each storage server contains CPU processors that are used to offload database processing. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs, but work alongside them to accelerate database workloads.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Exadata stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust performance and its wide variety of database features that make it a comprehensive database solution.

    Adriano S., an IT system integrator at a financial services firm, writes, "Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We are very satisfied with it. The previous equipment used to make a payment for all the government employees used to take at least two days for some of the transactions. Now, it will take hours to make the same amount of payments. Another thing is the flexibility to organize all our databases. We can use it with new features that come with this version of Oracle 19c, which is the container database. With container databases, we can work with many databases, organized, and segregated, and still access the functions and management, the things that most of the technical people like to have in place."

    Paulo X., a sales manager at LTA-RH Informatica, notes, "Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."

    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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    PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Comms Service Provider17%
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    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Midsize Enterprise9%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Oracle Exadata vs. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service
    March 2024
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    Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is ranked 10th in Database as a Service with 9 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service writes "Enhances performance without fine tuning databases". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift, whereas Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service is most compared with Google Cloud SQL. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service report.

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