We performed a comparison between Oracle Essbase and Teradata Data Lab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."It is very fast compared to other normal databases, like SQL and MySQL."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"It's a very powerful analytical engine with Essbase as the back end. We can analyze, transform, or utilize a big chunk of data for our calculations."
"In Data Lab, you can schedule any testing you want to do in production. You can take a small subset of data from production, copy it there, and run all your tests. It reduces your testing costs because it's all in the lab."
"It has increased the speed of reporting."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The reporting tool of Essbase needs improvement."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"The initial setup was complex as we had to rewrite a lot of the code."
"If I want to implement an upgrade, I'd like to see how it will be different. Ideally, Data Lab should help me test production items and also do future things. Future releases should be downloadable and testable in Data Lab."
"Their level of technical support is adequate. It could be better."
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Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 12 reviews while Teradata Data Lab is ranked 31st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools. Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4, while Teradata Data Lab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes " Handles a huge amount of data at a time and offers good processing speed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata Data Lab writes "You can schedule any testing you want to do in production". Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau, whereas Teradata Data Lab is most compared with Teradata Vantage, Databricks, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau and Oracle DataScience.com Platform.
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