We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Snowflake based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Snowflake wins out in this comparison, as it has a better user rating regarding both ease of deployment and pricing.
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The data replication is very good."
"It is a very good platform. It can handle structured and semi-structured data, and it can be used for your data warehouse or data lake. It can load and deal with any data that you have. It can extract data from an on-premises database or a website and make it available in the cloud. It has very fast implementation and integration as compared to other solutions. There is no need for the DBA to manage or do the day-to-day DBA tasks, which is one of the greatest things about it."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most efficient way for real-time dashboards or analytical business intelligence reports to be sent to the customer."
"The distributed architecture of Snowflake has the capacity to process huge datasets faster and allows us to scale up and down according to our needs."
"Snowflake is faster than on-premise systems and allows for variable compute power based on need."
"My company wanted to have all our data in one single place and this what we use Snowflake for. Snowflake also allows us to build connectors to different data sources."
"It is a cloud solution with many useful features. It has the data science capability. It can transform data and prepare data for a data science project with scalability."
"Snowflake is scalable both in terms of the amount of data that you can run through it and the number of users that engage with it."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"The performance could be improved."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"There are some stored procedures that we've had trouble with. The solution also needs to fine-tune the connectors to be able to connect into the system source."
"It doesn't enforce typical relational database constraints. Quite expensive."
"Pricing is an issue for many customers."
"The documentation could improve. They should provide architecture information."
"If they could bring in some tools for data integration, it would be really great."
"For the Snowflake database, there should be some third-party features for the ETL. It would also be good to be able to use some kind of controls to get the data either from another database or a flat file. Its price should be improved. It should be cheaper than Microsoft."
"Its stability could be better."
"Snowflake needs transparency over costs and pricing."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Data Warehouse with 92 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and Dremio. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Snowflake report.
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This is a large and complex question and depends on the use case and scale. Each platform has its advantages and there are significant pros and cons for each platform. I am an independent consultant; I teach courses about these platforms and how to select one; and I advise clients.
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