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 offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"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."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"The performance could be improved."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse 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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