We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"The tool's performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the smart scan. We have large TB sessions of approximately 100 per second for each of our three instances. The smart scan allows us the obtain data in time in the enterprise manager."
"Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"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."
"A conventional and easily defined way to build a data warehouse or a layer of data marts."
"Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting."
"It's very, very fast"
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Teradata has good performance, the response times are very fast. Overall the solution is easy to use. When we do the transformation, we have all of our staging and aggregation data available."
"It's very mature from a technology perspective."
"It has a solid set of tools and consulting services."
"The key advantages are Performance when processing Terabytes of data and scalability."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"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."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"The following could be better: licensing, architecture openness, integration with other tools."
"Apart from Control-M, it would be nice if it could integrate with other tools."
"The setup is not straightforward."
"The current operational approach needs improvement."
"It needs a teaching web site with more training on third-party tools used for BI."
"Teradata could improve by being less complicated. There are some aspects that are not available on the Unix server and a Unix system is required to access some data, such as in case of an emergency."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Data Services, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and IBM Db2 Database. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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