We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 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 solution is stable."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"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."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"The data replication is very good."
"The product is flexible."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature. I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"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."
"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."
"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 areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"Oracle Exadata has room for improvement in pricing, especially for smaller companies. The solution is okay for bigger companies, but for smaller companies, it isn't."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The performance could be improved."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 13th in Data Warehouse with 9 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.8, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Apache Hadoop, IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud and Teradata, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and BigQuery. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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