We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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."Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"We have complete control over our data."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The most valuable feature for me is querying."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"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 is a scalable 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."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"The data replication is very good."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"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 solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"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."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"The performance could be improved."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Snowflake. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
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