What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Exadata?

There is a hardware version and a software version. Our hardware version is X9, and the software version is 23. People who want to use the solution can negotiate the pricing with Oracle. If someone has a small application, they won’t need the product. However, we need good performance if we have huge applications like banking, airport, and insurance applications. Exadata provides the best performance. We can start with the least expensive configuration. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

The Oracle database is trustworthy and is good for large customers who do not care about money. Regulatory requirements are in place for the Oracle cloud, but it depends upon which country and which business line you are working in. If you are in manufacturing or the banking sectors, which do not allow your data outside your premises or country, you might not be able to use it. I rate Exadata a seven out of ten. If you have the money, you can get it. If you don't, it's not that easy to get Exadata. The product is good for the big player, not for the middle and the lower player.

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.

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 would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It is the best platform to consolidate data. You just need to pay for the number of codes that are required by your business.

If you run it properly, the system is very stable and gives good performance. Running the box can be done with a handful of engineers.

I've worked with different versions of Oracle Exadata, such as X7, X8, and X9. My customers use Oracle PCA (Private Cloud Appliance) for Oracle Exadata deployment. Banks use a private cloud, not a public cloud. My company is a platinum partner of Oracle, with sixty to seventy customers using Oracle Exadata. In terms of maintenance, forty to fifty technical staff handle the maintenance for all customers. My company is an Oracle vendor working with customers on implementation and deployment projects. The company is a reseller of Oracle Exadata. I'm rating Oracle Exadata as eight out of ten.

I give the solution an eight out of ten. When it comes to Oracle, I think it's a good investment. I know it's not cheap, but they offer excellent service and support. They are always looking to improve and customize their services, which is why my organization continues to use Oracle. We have 5,000 employees in the organization. More than 2,000 people use our platform daily. This means my team, supported by Oracle and our co-banking system running on Oracle, is prepared for at least 2,000 people to use the solution daily. New users should have the proper technical knowledge of the operator and that only requires having the right tools and contacting Oracle for support. Another important factor is the company's aftersales support. This ensures that we will be able to get the necessary care and service we need in order to keep our solution running smoothly. Plus, it's always good to have a company we can count on for renewing our solution the following year.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. Regarding advice, if you're scaling performance-wise or writing something on Oracle Exadata, you should understand how the performance works. You should also understand the cost of what the query is going to be and know the scalability.

I would recommend Exadata to other users for its database management and would rate it eight out of ten.

We have DBA administrators that do the maintenance of this solution. My advice to others is to take courses in Oracle database, Oracle Exadata administration, and other development guides. They need to know how to use the solution before they start. I rate Oracle Exadata a nine out of ten.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend the solution to others. I rate Oracle Exadata a seven out of ten.

Oracle Exadata is deployed on the cloud, but for databases, deployment is on-premises. My company has twenty thousand users of applications based on Oracle Exadata. My company develops internal applications given to users, and the applications have persistent layers in Oracle. My rating for Oracle Exadata is eight out of ten. My company is an Oracle customer. My advice to new users is to start small and implement Oracle Exadata incrementally. Don't implement it with a big bang approach. Do it piece by piece. The solution is good for big companies because I belong to a big company, but my company did the implementation one piece at a time. There's a plan to increase the usage of Oracle Exadata because some of the older databases still need to be moved from Unix. Some of the databases in Db2 will also be moved to Oracle Exadata.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to others. I rate Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

Exadata is a natural choice for Oracle shops specially if you're thinking to migrate your Oracle database workloads to cloud. 

I rate Oracle Exadata 10 out of 10.

We are a distributor. We are a global distributor for this Oracle, and we have a partnership with them. If you're looking for excellent, performance Exadata is definitely the best option to go for. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten.

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.

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.

We're customers and end-users of Oracle. We are using the latest version of the solution. I cannot speak to the exact version number, however. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been quite happy with its overall capabilities. I'd recommend the product to other users and companies.

We've been Oracle partners for around ten years or so. I'm a project manager, and not overly technical. We don't have Exadata in our company, however, we have Exadata via a client. The current company where I work is the first company in Romania to sell Exadata in Romania. There are a number of Exadata solutions sold in Romania - which is why my colleague has achieved past competencies and certification in Exadata machines. They are very good, and they are delivering the present services on Exadata. I manage the projects where they deliver services on Exadata only for the customer, not in our company. I'd advise users to consider the solution. You pay more money on the machine, however, you pay less for the licenses. On top of that, you have enough room to put a lot of data there. You can virtualize some machines and you put items on the application level, however, I don't recommend this. If you already have separate machines, and you have licenses for all these machines and you want to put new hardware in place, it's better to put Exadata in place instead of a lot of other machines. That way, you can consolidate the database here and you will pay less on database software licenses. I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. I've been very satisfied with the product overall.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Oracle Exadata ten.

If you're interested in going with Exadata, then I highly recommend looking for an experienced consulting firm that has completed at least one large implementation before, because it isn't something you want to put in the hands of unskilled consultants. And don't forget to be careful with your implementation when it comes to GDPR in Europe. I would rate Oracle Exadata a nine out of ten.

We don't have a business relationship with the company. We are just users. I'm not sure which version of the solution we're currently using. While telecommunications is an area that always does pretty well - as people need internet and other related services, even in these strange times, it's a strange time in Mexico for a variety of reasons and therefore we are rethinking how we are approaching entire systems and maybe holding off on some decisions until the landscape clears a bit. While I like Oracle as a solution, and its hardware and database are quite good, when we're talking about implementation, scalability, and integration, I would not recommend this solution. The best option today for a telecom company is likely Salesforce Vlocity. I would rate the solution six out of ten.

Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution. They are number one, in my opinion, I strongly recommend the product. No product is ever perfect, there is always room for improvement and because of this I rate Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

We are a consultancy. We are partners with Oracle, with Snowflake, and with other vendors, software vendors. We work in different deployment models with our customers. We try to fit our customers' needs. It depends on the customer and the project in terms of which deployment model we'll recommend or use. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. It's very good. We've had a great experience using it over the years.

I would of course recommend Oracle Exadata to other people who are looking into implementing such solutions. They need to know what happens with this solution, what can be done with it, because as the government we cannot give out that information because it's not allowed. But, I would recommend it if a company wants to use these solutions, wants to have stability with their equipment, with their applications, and with their systems. If a company wants to be competitive in the market and have a good name, reputation and everything else, I think using Oracle, with the Oracle Exadata machine, is the best way to achieve that. On a scale of one to ten, I can give Oracle Exadata a 9.

This is a product that I can recommend, although there needs to be a clear understanding of the use cases because Exadata doesn't come cheap. There is the requisition cost, the cost of support, costs for maintenance, and none of that is cheap. As long as there is a solid reason why Exadata is needed in the organization, I would definitely recommend it. My suggestion for anybody who is implementing this solution is geared towards the in-house DBAs as opposed to customers in general. DBAs tend to handle Exadata the way they would any Oracle database, which is not the way to do it. Many of them have been working with Oracle databases for their entire career, and often, training on Exadata is necessary to get it working properly. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Oracle Exadata highly. If you compare it to other engineering databases, I would rate it a nine. Practically perfect from my point-of-view.

The ecosystem that we have in our company is majorly Microsoft-based. When I refer to power BI or other integrated tools, they are by Microsoft. I would certainly recommend using Oracle. They have their cloud applications and I would say that it is not a good idea to go with an on-premises deployment. My suggestion is that people go with OCI instead. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

In our current situation it is not bad, it's a very capable and very comprehensive solution. On a scale of one to ten I rate Exadata a ten!

Oracle is coming out with many advanced hardware additions and software solutions to make this product the world's best database machine.

I would rate it an eight out of ten.

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.

Exadata is a powerful solution. As I mentioned there is a learning curve. Working with a company that has experience with Exadata can help avoid potential pain points and maximize the ROI.