We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse and Oracle Exadata 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 standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
"Oracle is known to be the number one in their industry; the help and support, the features they are giving the clients comparing to other databases, the new technology, the provide a good solution."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"The performance could be improved."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"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 initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"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."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 13th in Data Warehouse with 8 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse writes "Useful for ETL process and has good documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Apache Hadoop, Teradata and IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and BigQuery. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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