We compared Amazon Redshift and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Amazon Redshift seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that Oracle Exadata’s complexity of deployment and its expensive price tag make Amazon Redshift the better investment.
"The product is relatively easy to use because there is no indexing and no partitions."
"It allows you write complex queries and perform row by row processes."
"Amazon Redshift is a really powerful database system for reporting and data warehousing."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Redshift Spectrum is the most valuable feature."
"I like the cost-benefit ratio, meaning that it is as easy to use as it is powerful and well-performing."
"This service can merge and integrate well with all databases."
"Redshift allows you to transform different data formats and consolidate them into one Redshift cluster. This means you can transform various siloed data sources like Excel files and CSV files into Redshift."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"The tool's performance is good."
"The tool performs well with a large database."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"In our experiments, the handling of unstructured data was not very smooth."
"Query compilation time needs a lot of improvement for cases where you are generating queries dynamically."
"The solution has four maintenance windows so, when it comes to stability, I think it would be better to decrease their number."
"The OLAP slide and dice features need to be improved."
"In the solution, user-based access is quite hard. In general, certain permissions are difficult to manage."
"The technical support should be better in terms of their knowledge, and they should be more customer-friendly."
"I would like to improve the pricing and the simplicity of using this solution."
"Amazon Redshift could improve the user interface support."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"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."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
Amazon Redshift is ranked 4th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 61 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Amazon Redshift is rated 7.8, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon Redshift writes "Provides one place where we can store data, and allows us to easily connect to other services with AWS". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Amazon Redshift is most compared with Teradata, Snowflake, AWS Lake Formation, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our Amazon Redshift vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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