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."
"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."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"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 business intelligence is very good."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"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 technical support is in need of improvement."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"Oracle Exadata compatibility with the analytics could be better and the OBIEE could improve. Oracle BI to Exadata needs to be improved. Even if the full analytics practice for Oracle should be improved and when compared with other solutions it is weak."
"The integration with third-party applications regarding access management security could be better."
"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."
"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."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"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."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"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."
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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