Oracle Exadata Reviews

Name: Oracle Exadata
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (128 reviews)

Vendor: Oracle

4.3 out of 5

128 reviews
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What is Oracle Exadata?

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).

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Oracle Exadata is the #2 ranked solution in top Data Warehouse solutions. PeerSpot users give Oracle Exadata an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Oracle Exadata is most commonly compared to Dell PowerStore: Oracle Exadata vs Dell PowerStore. Oracle Exadata is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 32% of all views.

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Featured Oracle Exadata reviews

Anand_Kumar

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly. And in the current age, people are cautious about spending this amount of money on any of these types of backend products. Some use cases are in real-time, where all other databases are much faster, but if you talk about the data warehouse, business intelligence, and all other perspectives in the transactional world, Oracle has to reduce the cost. Otherwise, a customer wouldn't want to continue this. If the same thing can be done at half or one-third of the cost, why would people stay with Oracle? Oracle Exadata would not have great value in front of a CFO. Other solutions can guard your data and address security concerns. Security, volumetrics, and so on are also provided by other databases, which are not that costly. Apart from Exadata, Oracle has other tools for business intelligence and other things, which they add on top of Exadata when they're selling a general license. For example, the Vertica database, an HP data warehouse. They have come up with their own analytic engine within the database, which gives an edge for the client to use the data analytics engine as a part of their database. Exadata does not have an analytic engine. Even MySQL has some statistical tools within it. If Exadata integrates analytical tools, it will be good for them.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee

Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

Customer Service: We have had great customer service. We had almost no issues with the machine as such except for some predictive hard disk failures and the machine never had a problem due to the redundancy, so there was zero downtime for any of the hard disk faults. Technical Support: Majority of the cases we have had good support. We had a few small hiccups with ASR Auto Update as it twice lost configuration. However, we have since disabled that function and do the ASR updating manually after taking a backup. As this feature is not essential to the actual running of the machine, it never caused us any major issues.

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reviewer2088135

Senior Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Also considered an advantage, the main drawback is the inability to cluster two Exadata systems across sites. For example, with one node on one site and another node on a different site, I cannot create an extended rack cluster. Other Oracle products with active-pass features are used instead. This limitation requires two Exadata systems at each site.

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Oracle Exadata mindshare

As of May 2025, the mindshare of Oracle Exadata in the Data Warehouse category stands at 17.4%, down from 19.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerResearch reports based on Oracle Exadata reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Data Warehouse	May 1, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Exadata vs Snowflake	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Exadata vs Teradata	May 1, 2025	Download
Comparison	Oracle Exadata vs Dell PowerStore	May 1, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Dell PowerStore	4.3	0.9%	96%	84 interviews Add to research
Teradata	4.1	15.9%	87%	76 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

Oracle Exadata excels with features like Smart Scan, offloading, Flash Cache, and Hybrid Columnar Compression. It offers high performance, fast I/O, and enhanced security with integrated hardware and software. With InfiniBand networking, high availability, scalability, and ease of management, Exadata supports large-scale data warehousing and OLTP tasks effectively. Users benefit from significant compression, rapid deployment, and cost-effective storage capacity, ensuring long-term efficiency and performance gains.

"I am satisfied with its functionalities and performance."
"Once installed, Exadata is very stable."
"The key capability of Exadata, which is not found in any other solution or appliance, is its enhancement specifically for databases."

Room for Improvement

Oracle Exadata's main areas for enhancement are its high cost and complex setup process, which could be simplified. Users suggest improvements in support services, licensing flexibility, and security features. Enhancements in scalability, performance tuning, monitoring tools, and integration with third-party applications are also desired. Some users find the platform's replication and database handling problematic. They express a need for more user-friendly interfaces, efficient resource optimization, and advanced analytical capabilities.

"The price is also higher than I would prefer."
"The main drawback is the inability to cluster two Exadata systems across sites."
"I would like to add some features to run applications or microservices-based applications on Exadata."

ROI

ROI from Oracle Exadata varies significantly among users, with some achieving almost full ROI within 12-18 months due to lower TCO compared to other systems. Many experience substantial cost savings and performance improvements, though calculation complexities make precise ROI difficult to ascertain. Some users enjoy savings on licensing and hardware costs, reporting up to 300% ROI, while others note challenges and learning curves. For some, it leads to high availability and enhanced capabilities.

Pricing

Oracle Exadata is widely regarded as an expensive solution with high setup, licensing, and subscription costs, making it more suitable for larger enterprises. Users frequently mention that while setup and maintenance costs are high, Exadata offers substantial performance benefits, offloading some database functions to storage CPUs, which can reduce database licensing costs. Despite its high price, many organizations continue to invest due to its performance enhancements and data consolidation capabilities, often evaluating discounts or tailored deals through Oracle partners.

"The solution is expensive."
"The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases."
"It is quite expensive."

Popular Use Cases

Companies primarily use Oracle Exadata for transaction processing, analytics, and database consolidation. They benefit from its performance and scalability for OLTP, data warehousing, and reporting tasks. Organizations handle critical databases, run enterprise applications, consolidate multiple databases, and support complex, high-volume data environments. The technology facilitates improved database management, supports business intelligence systems, and enhances analytics processes for various industries, including banking, finance, insurance, and telecommunications. Users appreciate its robust environment for securing data and achieving target performance.

Service and Support

Customer service for Oracle Exadata often receives praise for being excellent, flexible, and proactive, while technical support varies. Some users find support prompt and knowledgeable, with field engineers demonstrating strong dedication. However, others describe delays and difficulties navigating support structures. Timeliness and experience levels of support personnel are noted issues. Platinum support receives mixed remarks, and maintaining a seasoned internal team is beneficial. Communication challenges exist, requiring clarity and strong escalation processes.

Deployment

Many users found Oracle Exadata's initial setup straightforward, especially when assisted by specialists. Challenges included database migration, network configuration, and integrating with existing systems. Some faced complexities due to involvement of multiple departments and the need for rigorous planning, especially for ensuring security and compliance. Utilizing tools such as OneCommand streamlined the process, while experienced teams and professional services typically eased deployment efforts, despite the inherent technical complexity.

Scalability

Oracle Exadata offers impressive scalability with flexible rack configurations, supporting numerous databases without performance impact. Users appreciate its ability to expand seamlessly with added memory or storage, though hardware upgrades are sometimes necessary. Scalability is largely dependent on proper initial sizing and resource management. Many find Exadata to meet their growing demands effortlessly, although some consider it cost-intensive. Exadata's new versions continue to enhance scalability, incorporating advanced features for improved performance and storage capacity.

Stability

Oracle Exadata is highly stable with built-in redundancy, minimal downtime, and high availability. End-users have reported few performance issues, mainly in early versions or with improper configurations. Users emphasize the importance of regular updates and suggest that stable configurations lead to enhanced performance. Many experience no significant disruptions or severe software failures, and the system handles high workloads reliably. Organizations have noted improvements in stability over time, particularly with later generations.

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Learn more about Oracle Exadata

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 Exadata customers

PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.