We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is very helpful. The initial setup is straightforward. I consider the product a strong solution for our customers."
"Oracle is a stable database."
"Oracle Database Appliances are specifically designed for Oracle databases. They have built-in utilities and tools that simplify management, making them the best option for Oracle database management systems."
"If the database goes down on one of the servers, the load is automatically shifted to another server. You can troubleshoot the one that is down without affecting uptime."
"The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance."
"The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"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."
"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 product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It has some problems. Databases are huge. This leads to needing more and more RAM and capacity resources, making it hard to scale. Because of this, we use Exadata. That's definitely a point for improvement."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Data Services, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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