We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"Oracle has good technical support."
"Oracle is a stable database."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"The performance could be improved."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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