We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Vertica 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."It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"The product is flexible."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"The Vertica architecture means it can process/ingest data in parallel to reporting and analyzing because of its in-memory Write-Optimized Storage sitting alongside the analytics optimized Read-Optimized Storage."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. "
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. "
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"Oracle Exadata compatibility with the analytics could be better and the OBIEE could improve. Oracle BI to Exadata needs to be improved. Even if the full analytics practice for Oracle should be improved and when compared with other solutions it is weak."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"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."
"Patching must be simplified."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Vertica 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 Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Apache Hadoop, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and BigQuery. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Vertica report.
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