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."This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"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."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"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 tool's performance is good."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. "
"The extensibility and efficiency provided by their C++ SDK."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"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 cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"The performance could be improved."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"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 biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
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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