We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"The business intelligence is very good."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the smart scan. We have large TB sessions of approximately 100 per second for each of our three instances. The smart scan allows us the obtain data in time in the enterprise manager."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"Parallel processing features have helped to easily dump any size of data and retrieve data with great performance."
"The key advantages are Performance when processing Terabytes of data and scalability."
"The functionality of the solution is excellent."
"Teradata's capabilities enhance data management efficiency, support scalability, and contribute to faster query performance."
"It has reduced a lot of reworking on maintaining indexes, partitions, etc."
"Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting."
"The flexibility in design is very good."
"Teradata is a great, industry-leading data warehousing product that has MPP architecture."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"The performance could be improved."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
"The solution could improve by having a cloud version or a cloud component. We have to use other solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Snowflake for the cloud."
"Teradata hardly supports unstructured data or semi-structured data"
"Data ingestion is done via external utilities and not by the query language itself. It would be more convenient to have that functionality within its SQL dialect."
"Teradata needs to expand the kind of training that's available to customers. Teradata only offers training directly and doesn't delegate to any third-party companies. As a result, it's harder to find people trained on Teradata in our market relative to Oracle."
"It needs a teaching web site with more training on third-party tools used for BI."
"I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement."
"The scalability could be better. The on-premises solution is always more complicated to scale."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Data Services, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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