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 storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"The product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"It is a scalable solution."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. "
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"Vertica has a few features that I like. From an architecture standpoint, they have separated compute and storage. So you have low-cost object storage for primary storage and the ability to have several sub-clusters working off the same ObjectStore. So it provides workload isolation."
"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."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"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 solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"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."
"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."
"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"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."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
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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