We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"It performs very well overall."
"We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"The solution's integration is good."
"We have complete control over our data."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"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."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
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