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 storage offloading."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"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 most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"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 is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"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."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"The feature I like best is performance. We use Red Tool and Red Job for the data warehouse and reporting. It's perfect. Performance is good, and it can return ad hoc queries very quickly. Of course, it's a cluster, so it's easy to scale."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"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."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"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."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
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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