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."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 most valuable feature is storage offloading."
"The tool's performance is good."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"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 has very good hardware."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"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."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. "
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"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. "
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"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."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
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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