We performed a comparison between Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the storage available."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"Patching must be simplified."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"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 would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
"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."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Apache Hadoop, Teradata and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and IBM Db2 Warehouse.
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