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 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."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"The product is flexible."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"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."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"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."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"They could improve on customer service."
"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."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
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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