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Oracle Exadata pros and cons

Vendor: Oracle
4.3 out of 5
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PROS

Exadata's In-Memory option provides superior performance compared to SAP HANA.
The Exadata x9m offers 100GBps connectivity, enhancing performance and reducing time to market.
The technical support team is highly professional and admired for their technical skills.
Exadata features such as Smart Scan, storage offloading, and high storage capacity improve performance significantly.
Exadata is known for its integration capabilities, stability, scalability, and ease of use, making it ideal for OLTP and data warehousing.

CONS

Oracle Exadata's technical support requires improvement, as it often takes too long to resolve issues and lacks guidance on system features.
Pricing and cost structure for Oracle Exadata are generally considered too high, making it challenging for smaller companies to afford and evaluate return on investment.
Compatibility and integration issues exist with third-party applications, particularly in analytics and access management, hindering seamless operation.
Initial setup of Oracle Exadata is seen as very complex, requiring certified professionals and support, often leading to difficulties in implementation.
Scalability and performance tuning of Oracle Exadata need enhancements, with issues in handling unstructured data and execution parallelism, impacting its efficiency.
 

Oracle Exadata Pros review quotes

Adriano-Simao - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 25, 2020
Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it.
EA
Jun 4, 2017
Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments).
Edmond Pajk - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 29, 2022
What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions.
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RP
Jan 17, 2021
The data replication is very good.
Edmond Pajk - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 4, 2020
This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases.
it_user240024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 17, 2017
Exadata with the In-Memory option is several levels about SAP HANA.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
May 10, 2023
The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity.
RB
Apr 7, 2021
We can use virtualization on Exadata.
Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 2, 2023
Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases.
AM
Oct 10, 2018
The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable.
 

Oracle Exadata Cons review quotes

Adriano-Simao - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 25, 2020
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.
EA
Jun 4, 2017
Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems.
Edmond Pajk - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 29, 2022
Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't.
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RP
Jan 17, 2021
The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex.
Edmond Pajk - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 4, 2020
It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle.
it_user240024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 17, 2017
Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues.
Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
May 10, 2023
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.
RB
Apr 7, 2021
The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration.
Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 2, 2023
Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly.
AM
Oct 10, 2018
We had issues with system restoration.