We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data 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."It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The data transmissions between the data models is the most valuable feature."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time."
"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."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management."
"If the database goes down on one of the servers, the load is automatically shifted to another server. You can troubleshoot the one that is down without affecting uptime."
"Oracle is a stable database."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"I would like to see better visualization features."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."
"Technical support is not so great. It could be much better. The maintenance, for an enterprise system, isn't so great. It's also extremely expensive."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Data Services, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Vertica. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.
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