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."On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"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."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"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 most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"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."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
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 "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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