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."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."
"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"The tool's performance is good."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"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."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 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 and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and BigQuery. See our Oracle Big Data Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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