We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management."
"The solution is simple to use and easy to maintain."
"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."
"I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"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."
"It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"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 offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."
"The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface."
"The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."
"Since we don't have the room to scale up, I rate this solution a six out of ten for scalability."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"We would like the ability to add more storage without having to upgrade to Oracle Exadata."
"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."
"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."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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