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 Exadata has very good hardware."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"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."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"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."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"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."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"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."
"One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
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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