We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance 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."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."
"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 solution is stable."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"We use the solution for our Java applications."
"The solution is simple to use and easy to maintain."
"The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability."
"The performance due to the all-flash of ODA is very nice."
"NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is very helpful. The initial setup is straightforward. I consider the product a strong solution for our customers."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"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."
"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."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"There were some initial challenges with IBM Db2 Warehouse about eight months ago when I worked in this environment. When I coordinated with IBM support, they mentioned that the memory was insufficient for our needs. Our business environment required significantly more memory than the previous cluster could provide. Consequently, we have worked closely with on-site IBM technical personnel to address this issue."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"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."
"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It has some problems. Databases are huge. This leads to needing more and more RAM and capacity resources, making it hard to scale. Because of this, we use Exadata. That's definitely a point for improvement."
"Since we don't have the room to scale up, I rate this solution a six out of ten for scalability."
"The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"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."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. 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 Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Apache Hadoop, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Vertica. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.
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