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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse, Oracle Database Appliance, and Oracle Exadata based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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"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)."

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Cons
"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."

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"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."

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"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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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I think the program is well-priced compared to the other offerings that are out in the market."
  • "Microsoft has an agreement with the government in our country, so our customers get their licensing costs from the Ministry. Whenever we work with any government, company, or government institute, which is mainly what we are doing, that license comes directly from the Ministry of Technology and Information."
  • "All the features that we use do not require any additional subscription or yearly fees."
  • "Technical support is an additional fee and is expensive."
  • "The solution's pricing is fairly decent for organizations with huge data sizes."
  • "The tool could be expensive if we need to manage a lot of data."
  • "They offer an annual subscription. The pricing depends on the size of the environments."
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  • "Get benefit from the capacity-on-demand features. License your cores according to your licenses."
  • "Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."
  • "In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution."
  • "The price should be lower."
  • "You must pay for the license."
  • "The price of the solution should be less expensive. However, they will increase the price more."
  • "I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."
  • "Compared to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance is affordable."
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  • "In the sizing phase, you can also decide whether to license all cores, or reduce the number cores using capacity-on-demand features of Exadata, as well. This has a direct impact on licensing."
  • "The Initial investment price could use improvement"
  • "I think it's free."
  • "The price is very high."
  • "Exadata is an expensive tool, but, considering the ROI, it's worth going for the solution."
  • "Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
  • "It is an expensive product and you pay more for certain performance enhancements."
  • "All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse provides good firewall processing in terms of response time.
    Top Answer:They offer an annual subscription. The pricing depends on the size of the environments.
    Top Answer:Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area… more »
    Top Answer:The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.
    Top Answer:The product is costly. However, it is the price is justifiable for the excellent technology it offers.
    Top Answer:They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform.
    Top Answer:It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
    Top Answer:The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases. Less cost would enable most customers to choose… more »
    Top Answer:Patching must be simplified. We have various levels of patching in the solution. Most of them are online, split into… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft PDW, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, MS Parallel Data Warehouse
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    Overview

    The traditional structured relational data warehouse was never designed to handle the volume of exponential data growth, the variety of semi-structured and unstructured data types, or the velocity of real time data processing. Microsoft's SQL Server data warehouse solution integrates your traditional data warehouse with non-relational data and it can handle data of all sizes and types, with real-time performance.

    Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

    Oracle Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

    The main benefit of Exadata is its speed. It hosts operating systems, CPU memory, and hard drives. It runs all types of databases, including online transaction systems, processors, and data warehouses, while remedying the poor performances of older databases.

    Oracle Exadata features a simple and fast database storage system that protects and backs up your critical data. It accelerates data warehouse performance for faster access to business information and data. It is the ideal database solution for companies looking to build up their infrastructure from scratch.

    Oracle Exadata Database Machine Key Benefits

    • Rapid, reliable, and scalable deployment: Exadata is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for running Oracle databases. Exadata’s deployment is very straightforward since the database servers, storage servers, and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts. This ensures that all your components work seamlessly together. Any Oracle Database application can be seamlessly migrated to and from the Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the original application.

    • Powerful, cutting-edge hardware: Exadata is the most versatile database platform. It uses powerful database servers and a scaled-out, intelligent storage layer.

    • Accelerate database processing: Exadata Storage Server implements a unique, highly efficient database-optimized storage infrastructure that enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the bottlenecks that traditional storage experiences. Each storage server contains CPU processors that are used to offload database processing. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs, but work alongside them to accelerate database workloads.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Exadata stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust performance and its wide variety of database features that make it a comprehensive database solution.

    Adriano S., an IT system integrator at a financial services firm, writes, "Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We are very satisfied with it. The previous equipment used to make a payment for all the government employees used to take at least two days for some of the transactions. Now, it will take hours to make the same amount of payments. Another thing is the flexibility to organize all our databases. We can use it with new features that come with this version of Oracle 19c, which is the container database. With container databases, we can work with many databases, organized, and segregated, and still access the functions and management, the things that most of the technical people like to have in place."

    Paulo X., a sales manager at LTA-RH Informatica, notes, "Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."

    Sample Customers
    Auckland Transport, Erste Bank Group, Urban Software Institute, NJVC, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe
    LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
    PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Healthcare Company18%
    Hospitality Company12%
    Pharma/Biotech Company12%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Insurance Company7%
    University6%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Comms Service Provider22%
    Retailer11%
    Transportation Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm24%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Insurance Company16%
    Retailer8%
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    Financial Services Firm28%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Energy/Utilities Company5%
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    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
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