We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data 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 UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"It performs very well overall."
"The solution has been reliable."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"The product must provide more frequent updates."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"I think that the error messages need to be made more specific."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"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."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"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."
"Patching must be simplified."
"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."
"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 have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
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