We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"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."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"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."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"It is a stable program."
"Teradata's capabilities enhance data management efficiency, support scalability, and contribute to faster query performance."
"Building a data warehouse with Teradata has definitely helped a lot of our downstream applications to more easily access information."
"I like this solution's ease of design and the fact that its performance is quite good. It is stable as well."
"It is a solid database a lot of different tools to move data."
"We did performance testing. We had a set of real life MicroStrategy reports. Our conditions were: Not allowed to redesign data model, not allowed to rewrite the queries, all queries should be generated by MicroStrategy, no aggregates. Teradata appeared to be way faster than a similarly configured (in terms of hardware) Oracle server."
"Designing the database is easy."
"It has given our business the ability to gain insights into the data and create data labs for analysis and PoCs."
"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."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data"
"There is a need to improve performance in high transaction processes, as well as the reporting system."
"Teradata's UI could be improved."
"The setup is not straightforward."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
"Teradata's UI could be more user-friendly."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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