We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"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."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes."
"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase."
"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."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"The data replication is very good."
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software."
"In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."
"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Oracle Database Appliance patching comes out two to three months after the regular patching cycle."
"Patching must be simplified."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"The solution lacks a visualized console."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"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."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Data Services, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Data Services. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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