Oracle Exadata Reviews

We work on data warehouses and data marts.

The tool performs well with a large database. It is easy to integrate the tool with other ELT solutions. The performance and data transformation are excellent. We recommend it to our clients. The tool has good storage technologies.

The product must make more investments in object storage technologies. Six to seven years ago, the product had an SQL-based analytics feature that did not work well. The vendor must consider investing in it. The analytics features must be improved.

I have been using the solution for more than ten years.

Oracle Exadata is a robust product.

We must pay more money if we need more storage. I rate the product’s scalability a ten out of ten. The tool is suitable for enterprises and SMBs.

I rate the tool’s pricing a three out of ten. The solution is expensive.

Teradata is a competitor. If we use Teradata, we must use their data warehouse model.

I will recommend the tool to others. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

I use Oracle Exadata in the context of banking. The system's ability to quickly access and process large amounts of data is crucial, especially when handling extensive datasets. This rapid data retrieval ensures minimal delays for end-users accessing the system.

It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users. To put it in perspective, a standard Oracle database may only support around four hundred to five hundred simultaneous users. However, when utilizing Exadata, this capacity can be dramatically increased to accommodate two thousand or even three thousand simultaneous end users, demonstrating its scalability and performance capabilities.

There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly. I also have reservations about the cost, it is significantly high.

I have been using it for several years.

It provides good stability capabilities.

It can effectively handle a large number of users, making it a robust and scalable solution.

Their customer support is really good. I would rate it eight out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup is not complex and it can be installed in just a few hours.

The duration of deployment depends on a variety of factors, including the database size, the number of tables to be installed, and the configuration of storage spaces. The process can be time-consuming, and it's highly dependent on the specific requirements of the deployment. One or two engineers are typically sufficient to maintain Exadata.

It is quite expensive. Nevertheless, its numerous strengths and advantages make it a compelling choice.

If you opt for cloud-based solutions, it might not be a necessary choice for your business. However, in non-cloud environments, Exadata becomes valuable for handling a large user base efficiently, leading to faster performance. I woudl rate it eight out of ten.

The solution is used for Extreme Bare metal and virtual compute performance for the business to scale up as per the heterogeneous database loads.

Exadata has greatly benefited our business cycle as operational efficiency has improved by 200%.

Also, our business analytics platform performance has improved by 300%

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.

• Exadata Smart Flash Cache - caches database objects with flash memory operations.
• Integrated appliance with all components supported by one vendor, Oracle.

• It needs built-in big data features.
• I'd like to see smart auto-healing features with machine-learning libraries.
• Less power consumption would be nice.
• It needs integrated cloud software to enable cloud connectivity.

Exadata X9M uses a combination of scale-out storage, RDMA over Converged Ethernet networking, database offload, persistent memory accelerator, and PCIe Flash to deliver extremely high performance from memory and flash.

We have been using the solution for ten years.

There were no stability issues.

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

Customer Service:

Oracle customer service is the best in the industry.

Technical Support:

Technical support for Exadata is the best in the industry.

Positive

Traditional Oracle RAC to Oracle Exadata RAC due to having scalable and robust database consolidated platform for upcoming release 12.2, which can consolidate multi-character sets within a single container and heterogeneous data guard support.

It was a bit complex to fit in with our business requirements initially, but post-implementation it was great. It will work as the most stable and scalable database ever run on Linux with various complex workloads.

We implemented it in-house and advisors for major global Exadata deployments helped.

We have seen a 300% ROI.

Oracle needs to reduce the licensing cost to get more market penetration and offer an Open Financing Option.

We evaluated SAP HANA and other relevant platform for analytics.

I would truly recommend this to all SMEs and Big Enterprises for consolidating databases with a unified next-generation platform.

Database Consolidation and Performance are best on this platform. It is tailor-made to run the Oracle database and hence the defaults on this device force you to choose Oracle's best practices. No more moaning by your storage admin that he wants to carve out the Luns, that he doesn't understand ASM stripe and Mirror Everything S.A.M.E, and that he knows better what's good for the Oracle database. With the latest Optane memory and in-memory options, the flash cache becomes even more powerful.

The ability to patch with no downtime and the ability to ensure all the prerequisites are satisfied without manual intervention saves time and effort and makes the systems we deploy for our clients more secure. Licensing costs too are less for Oracle Linux and for clients moving to the Oracle cloud, it is included in the price of the subscription. With the new Exadata cloud @customer offering, there are even more ways to get the benefits of Exadata without large capital expenditure.

Ksplice, Prevalidated Oracle RPMS, the testing done with Oracle database and WebLogic, and the UEK kernel have made Oracle Linux systems best for running large Oracle databases and other packaged applications. Exadata's IORM and DBRM make it a great consolidation platform. Its smart scan feature and flash cache are unparalleled in providing performance.

The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity.

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.

I have been using this solution for over thirteen years across multiple versions.

We have encountered several predictive disk failures, but we never lost data because the machine detected the issue before the actual failure and alerted us and Oracle to dispatch a spare through ASR. In the cloud, it is even more transparent.

There are no issues at all except when the code we were working with was not scalable (procedural PL/SQL and cursors). In fact, the RAC worked very well and we saw near-linear scale-up, and the license costs were dramatically less than a conventional solution. We were also able to consolidate hundreds of databases on a single Exadata rack.

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.

Positive

We have been running and recommending Exadata since version 1 for our customers. For Oracle databases, there is no better solution.

It was a vendor team who did the bare-bones setup and then we did the actual deployment and migrations in-house. Our team is very seasoned. The vendor team was quite good and we had no issues with installation and initial configuration.

As we have the capability and specialization to do the software implementation in-house we worked collaboratively with the vendor team for the same. The vendor team was very knowledgeable.

We have realized a lot of tangible and intangible benefits from the machine. It would be difficult to put a dollar figure to it because the machine allows for things that simply cannot be done without it. So in that way, we can safely say that the machine paid for itself within the first 12 months.

There are many new options available now, including Exadata Cloud @ customer or ExaCS. I would advise others to engage a third-party expert to ensure that they get the best deal. I did note that Oracle does tend to internally oversize things especially if they want to fill up a budget, and hence third-party oversight is essential.

For us, we work with all vendors and every vendor has its good and bad qualities. We use all solutions and hence we know when to recommend the Exadata machine.

I would always consider this solution when I want an integrated scalable best-of-breed solution for enterprise-class Oracle database deployment. I have seen so much inter-vendor finger-pointing during SevOne outages to ever want to wander back into that uncharted wilderness.

We use Oracle Exadata for databases and for migrations from on-premise to the cloud.

The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available.

Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second.

I have been using Oracle Exadata for approximately six years.

The stability of the solution is good.

I rate the stability of Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

We have 150 people using this solution.

The solution is not scalable because it is on-premise.

The support is helpful.

The intital implmentaion of Oracle Exadata is difficult.The data is complicated. We have multiple queries and multiple processes pulling this data. There is complete logic inside.

We have a team of software and data engineers and architects that do the implementation of the solution.

The price of the solution could improve, it is expensive.

We are moving away from using Oracle Exadata. 

I would recommend this solution to others, but it depends on the use case.

I rate Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

I have been using Oracle Exadata for a data warehouse using only a Linux environment.

The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network.

Oracle Exadata could improve by decreasing the price.

I have been using Oracle Exadata for approximately six years.

The Oracle Exadata environment design is very reliable. I have not had any issues with the solution on the cloud or on-premise.

Oracle Exadata is highly scalable. You can increase the network and everything works well.

We have approximately 10 clients using the solution in the finance sector.

The support from Oracle Exadata is good.

The initial setup of Oracle Exadata is done by well-trained engineers. I have to prepare the environment with all the systems, active environments, and IoT networks. After the preparation, the engineers can do the scripting. Once installed from the scripts we can work with it.

The whole implementation process can take between two and three hours.

We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation.

Mainly all the patching and updates are handled directly by the Oracle support team.

The price of Oracle Exadata is expensive. It is not competitive with other solutions some of the times.

I would recommend the solution to others.

I rate Oracle Exadata a seven out of ten.

My primary use case of this solution is running the large database status regarding applications.

The cost of the product could be improved.

I have been using this solution for around ten years.

This is a very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with.

The tech support for this product is fine, though sometimes they take some time to identify and rectify issues.

The installation took around one month.

We installed the database using an in-house team but Oracle prefers to do the box configuration themselves.

I would recommend this solution, particularly if you are running Oracle databases. I would rate this solution as an 8 out of 10.

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.