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."Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"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."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"The feature I like best is performance. We use Red Tool and Red Job for the data warehouse and reporting. It's perfect. Performance is good, and it can return ad hoc queries very quickly. Of course, it's a cluster, so it's easy to scale."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"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."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"I think they need an easy client so that you can write queries easily, but it's not necessarily a weak point. I think some users would need them."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"Support is an area where it could get 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."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
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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