We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."The MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) architecture helps to make things a lot faster."
"Scaling this solution is easy and the uptime is okay."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its integration with the new legacy systems. Whatever application we want to integrate, we receive the reports based on the objects. The solution is easy to purchase from the cloud."
"I have not used the technical support from Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, but I worked with the developers at Microsoft who were top-notch."
"The most valuable aspect of this Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its consolidation of technical support from Microsoft, and its ability to securely host large quantities of data within the cloud environment. The overall ability to manage and maintain Big Data within the cloud provides a heightened level of efficiency, reliability, and support from Microsoft. This results in a superior user experience and an increased level of value for the end user."
"Our primary use case is for gathering data and analytics. We provide insights into vehicle data. We gather millions of records per second and we have various millions of vehicles running across."
"Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide."
"It's quite quick for querying, even with large datasets, and it's scalable. It's also flexible to use, so it's easy to update and get data quickly without wasting time."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"The initial setup process needs improvement. When you're moving to the cloud it takes a bit of time. It would be great if they could implement something that would make it faster."
"I'm not entirely happy with the billing model. I'm not entirely happy with how the enterprise services are pretty expensive, but that's about it."
"It's a complicated product."
"They should provide a less expensive version with a smaller setup for small businesses. Currently, its price is quite high for entry-level or small businesses. In terms of integration, new connectors are always welcomed."
"I would like to see them provide the ingestion of images."
"There may be some challenges in terms of connecting with Virtual Networks (VNETs) to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics."
"It needs strong support for social media, internet data, and native support for NoSQL."
"From an infrastructure standpoint, I believe it can be more secure in terms of availability."
"Patching must be simplified."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"The analytics features must be improved."
"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."
"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."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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