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."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 product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"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."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"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."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"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 fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database."
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"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."
"I believe Oracle must improve its procedure to support the clients. The customer Ready Service must provide more use cases and benchmarks of their infrastructure to support client design decisions. Oracle must audit their partners regularly to guarantee they provide quality service even after been passed on partnership examination."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"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."
"I have found that coding support could be simplified."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."
"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."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"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."
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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