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."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."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"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."
"The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful."
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"I believe Oracle must improve its procedure to support the clients. The customer Ready Service must provide more use cases and benchmarks of their infrastructure to support client design decisions. Oracle must audit their partners regularly to guarantee they provide quality service even after been passed on partnership examination."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"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."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". 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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