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 storage offloading."
"Exadata with the In-Memory option is several levels about SAP HANA."
"The data replication is very good."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability."
"I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data."
"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."
"The extensibility and efficiency provided by their C++ SDK."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. "
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"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."
"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."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"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."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"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."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
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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