We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"The data replication is very good."
"The storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Teradata's most valuable feature is that it's easy to use."
"It's very, very fast"
"The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning."
"Parallel processing features have helped to easily dump any size of data and retrieve data with great performance."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"I found all parts --loading, transformation, processing & querying work in parallel, and end-to-end-- to be valuable."
"It handles large amounts of information with a linear performance increase, in relation to a HW investment."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"I've been using the same UI for 20 years in Teradata. It could use some updating. Adding more stability around Teradata Studio would be outstanding. Teradata Studio is a Java-based version of their tool. It's much better now, but it still has some room for improvement."
"Data synchronization to the DR site."
"Data ingestion is done via external utilities and not by the query language itself. It would be more convenient to have that functionality within its SQL dialect."
"Teradata's pricing is quite high compared to Redshift, Synapse, or GCP alternatives."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"GUI of administrative tools is really outdated."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Data Services, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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