Oracle Exadata Reviews

It provides performance for our highly critical applications.

They seem to be doing real well with keeping up on the performance and everything, especially what I have seen with the new chipset that is being offered. I can't really think of anything that they are not doing that they should be doing.

It can be difficult to patch and maintain because there are so many databases running on it.

We have been using Exadata for about five years.

We have had no down time with it, but it can be difficult to patch and maintain because there are so many databases running on it.

It is an absolutely scalable solution.

The support is very good.

I'm not involved in operations that much, but from what I understand, they get back to us; they always find the right person.

Oracle comes in and does the initial setup.

I recommend it for highly critical, performance-sensitive applications. You have to do a TCO on it because it is a fairly expensive solution. There has to be a cost-benefit analysis done on that.

I'm a system solution architect and we are Oracle customers. 

The offloading of data to the SIM is the most valuable feature because it solves the issue of I/O.

I'd like to see a visualized console as part of the solution. 

I've been using this solution for seven years. 

The product is very, very stable and mature. It's a strong and successful product. 

The initial setup takes time and is complex. Implementation is generally carried out by the vendor. 

The solution is expensive and the license is paid annually. It includes the database, clustering and the software for data, so you're paying for three or four software licenses plus the hardware license. If you activate any of the options, that will incur additional payment. 

It's important to be specific with your requirements, otherwise you'll be up for added costs. It's worth using the Capacity-on-Demand feature, start small and expand from there. It's easy to expand than contract so if you've taken on added resources that you don't need or won't use, it will cost you.

I rate the solution eight out of 10. 

The scale of the product is the most valuable feature. We use it for data warehouse and for that, we need to process a whole bunch of data faster. That is one of the features that we use this product most.

We use it for bringing data from all the different systems into it and then process it there. It is relatively faster. I always want the fastest speed, but despite all the claims made, it is fast. This product meets our scale and volume requirements.

It has enabled us to implement business intelligence. That is the most important function that we are using it for. It has helped us line-up. Earlier, we used to take close to 24 hours in some cases. Now, it's a matter of a couple of hours.

They can make it faster and more scalable. Currently, it is not. Actually, we carried out a benchmark against another company's product. Oracle took about 14 hours and that company's product took only thirty minutes. It is like a day and night difference.

It's pretty stable.

This product does not scale like we want it to.

There is another company that we use for this purpose and it does a much better job.

It's pretty good. I don't have any problems in that area.

We were not using any other solution prior to this. The reason why we chose this product is because we had already invested in Oracle and they had this to offer, so we continued with it.

If we needed to use it for batch requirements like before, it is still one of the best solutions. But, right now with the needs that we have, it isn't enough. If you are looking for batch processing, this solution is the way to go. However, if you are looking to do what we do, which not many companies do, then it is not suitable. We are into the internet business and we process trillions of records in a day all over the world. So, probably it is not for us. But for most of the companies, it is suitable. In my previous company, we had this solution.

Actually, the product rating all depends on the timing. Initially when it was bought, at the time, there was no other solution like this. At that time, I would have rated it higher. However, with our current requirements we need to be able to process billions of records in almost real-time, which this database doesn't meet.

Oracle products are pretty stable. They are leaders in database. As we looked into data warehouse products, they are the natural choice. We did not want to bring something new.

Omnichannel multiprocessing.

It provides efficient runtime processing.

Hybrid columnar compression.

Try to diminish the logging service.

We are the first site in the Middle East that's using Exadata as a cloud service. My data is on-premise, but my service is on cloud.

The storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution.

Oracle Exadata compatibility with the analytics could be better and the OBIEE could improve. Oracle BI to Exadata needs to be improved. Even if the full analytics practice for Oracle should be improved and when compared with other solutions it is weak.

I used Oracle Exadata within the last 12 months.

The solution is very stable and has good performance.

Oracle Exadata is scalable.

Our clients are mostly small to medium-sized companies.

I have been satisfied with the technical support.

The installation is a medium level of difficulty. You need a skilled person to do the installation.

The price of the solution has been expensive to implement.

I rate Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

Database consolidation driving hardware and licensing cost reduction.

Complexity comes from patching the whole stack (firmware to database). If you have subscribed to a platinum support contract, Oracle will do it for you.

5 years.

No, the whole stack is stable.

No, it scaled linearly as claimed by Oracle pre sales.

The Exadata support team is good, they will never let you down.

Exadata comes pre configured, just need to create your databases and load your data.

Public price is high, as usual with Oracle. You need to make a deal with Oracle sales.

No.

You should carefully plan your Gridisk/ASM disk layout, One big +DATA and +RECO, or one by database. Also think about your ORACLE_HOME: just one or many? Having several Oracle_Home gives you flexibility in patching (you can stop only one database) but increase DBA works, several Oracle_Home to be patched.

For me, the most valuable feature is the fact that it’s an integrated system of software and hardware together.

We see cost saving due to the reduced footprint in the data center and improved performance.

There has been great improvement from the X2 to the X6 versions. There is a lot of improvement every time. CPU power is always doubled every time and memory power is doubled, so they are on the right track.

Monitoring might be a good option for improvement.

The solution is very stable.

We have had no issues with scalability.

We have opened tickets with Oracle technical support and so far, no problems.

We looked at a custom-built solution.

Engage me.

• Smart Flash Cache
• Storage Index
• Smart Scan
• Hybrid Columnar Compression
• Oracle ASM
• Security with encryption
• Oracle platinum support

We were using a normal RAC on a Linux server for online applications and Oracle on the same platform for data warehousing. After moving to Oracle Exadata, we were able to add more users, and queries get executed very quickly for data warehousing, around one quarter to half the time when compared to our previous solution under normal conditions.

• Shared RAM for multiple instances
• Hardware update in terms of storage
• Ability to migrate a database to Exadata from a normal environment

I've been using it for five years, including in my previous company.

During migration, we approached transportable tablespace and Oracle database along with GoldenGate.

There have been no issues with stability.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

10/10 because we have Oracle Platinum Support.

Previously, we used SQL tuning, server tuning along with network tuning with huge storage and higher CPUs. It was a management decision, along with our recommendations, to move to Exadata.

It was a complex setup because we were implementing the online application as well as data warehousing on the same machine. Lots of planning took place before moving to Exadata, and we did regression testing for each application on an Oracle provided Exadata machine. After verification from our application team and management, we verified our test results.

We did it in-house with help from Oracle.

It's too costly.

I have seen, and it's my personal experience, that if your application runs on half a rack don't go for a full rack. After all, you can upgrade from half a rack to a full rack if needed, and there is no point to move directly onto a full rack.

Check with Oracle and do testing on the lower version rack first. Although sales people from Oracle will convince you to go for a higher version, which is not needed unless your design, architecture, and applications needed .