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."The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"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 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."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Patching must be simplified."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"They could improve on customer service."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
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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