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."We have complete control over our data."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"The solution has been reliable."
"It is a very stable database."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"The product is flexible."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"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 performance could 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."
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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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