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."Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"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."
"The performance could be improved."
"Patching must be simplified."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
"One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility."
"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."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
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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