Name: Oracle Exadata
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.3 (130 reviews)

it_user1011

Manager of Data Center at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Jun 28, 2012

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Good for Data Warehousing and OLTP Applications

What is most valuable?

• Exadata provides great improvement in terms of read/write response time. The response time is approximately 10x the performance of a regular disk. • Tuning is automatic. • SQL operations run faster, because large I/O operations are replaced by group operations. • Ideal for data warehousing since it supports bulk load operations. • Good storage capacity

What needs improvement?

• Licensing is per CPU and relatively expensive. • It is specifically designed for data warehouse and OLTP platforms; so, it is not cost effective when investing in it for low data transactions. • The hardware runs only Oracle Software Exadata is a proprietary system from Oracle, that combines both hardware and software requirements for data warehousing and OLTP applications. Oracle utilizes the improvement in disk technology, to produce one of the best machines, ideal not only for data warehousing, but good for private cloud.

What other advice do I have?

Smart Scan , Smart Flash, storage Index, Hybrid Columnar Compression, Resource Manager and Smart Scan of Data mining Model Scoring technologies are the features that places Exadata machine ahead of similar products. If you are looking for a data warehouse machine with large storage capacity, high performance, and manageability, Exadata is the best suite. But, you have to mentally prepare yourself for the fact that Exadata hardware only runs oracle software.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

principa447546

President of the Board at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 3, 2021

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Just as stable as the cloud version

Pros and Cons

"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."

"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."

What needs improvement?

The technology in the on-premises version of Exadata is pretty much the same as the cloud edition. However, the cloud version is much more flexible when it comes to sizing and pricing.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform.

How was the initial setup?

Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Exadata eight out of 10. If you are considering this solution, I recommend first seeing what other options are available for Oracle and MPP databases. If you are familiar with Oracle and are accustomed to working with it, you should stay with Oracle. For a better price-performance ratio, I would suggest other options and MPP databases.