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."It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"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 most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"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."
"Its analytics has enabled Pythian's clients to get the business insights as quick as they wanted. Its lower maintenance has also improved the ROI."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"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."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"The solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"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."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
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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