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 product is flexible."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"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. "
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
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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