We performed a comparison between Oracle Big Data Appliance 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."Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The business intelligence is very good."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"It is a scalable solution."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"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."
"Setting up Exadata is complex. You need an Oracle vendor or someone who is Oracle-certified to set it up."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"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."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Teradata, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and IBM Db2 Warehouse. See our Oracle Big Data Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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