We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse, Oracle Database Appliance, and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"It is a very stable database."
"It handles high volumes of data very well."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"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 most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase."
"The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks."
"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."
"The database is solid."
"The product is very light."
"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."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"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."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The performance on the databases is good."
"The tool's performance is good."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Oracle Exadata has very good hardware."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"The only issue with the product is that the process is very slow when we have a huge amount of data."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Oracle Database Appliance patching comes out two to three months after the regular patching cycle."
"Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"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."
"Patching must be simplified."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"Oracle Exadata could improve by having faster data retrieval. We receive data at four or five seconds and want to reduce that number to one second."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"We had issues with system restoration."
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