We performed a comparison between Oracle Big Data Appliance 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 best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"The tool's performance is good."
"Before using this machine, we took no less than two days to run a report. Now, we can do it within five hours. So, there is a lot of improvement."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"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."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Teradata, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and IBM Db2 Warehouse. See our Oracle Big Data Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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