We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"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."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"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 storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"It's very, very fast"
"Teradata's pretty fast."
"It's very mature from a technology perspective."
"It has given our business the ability to gain insights into the data and create data labs for analysis and PoCs."
"We did performance testing. We had a set of real life MicroStrategy reports. Our conditions were: Not allowed to redesign data model, not allowed to rewrite the queries, all queries should be generated by MicroStrategy, no aggregates. Teradata appeared to be way faster than a similarly configured (in terms of hardware) Oracle server."
"Teradata has good performance, the response times are very fast. Overall the solution is easy to use. When we do the transformation, we have all of our staging and aggregation data available."
"Teradata can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a virtual machine, which means customers can move without having to create their architecture all over again."
"We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features."
"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."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."
"The solution needs improvement in its stability, support and pricing."
"There is some improvement required on OLTP level and some analytical function is missing."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"I would like to see an improved Knowledge Base on the web."
"I would like to see more integration with many different types of data."
"The SQL Assistant is very basic. This tool can be improved for usability."
"GUI of administrative tools is really outdated."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata 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 Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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