We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 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."The way that it scales will help a lot of customers that are stuck with Netezza boxes that can't grow any larger."
"It will be MPP, so performance should improve."
"The performance is okay as long as the volume of queries is not too high."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The storage capacity and the performance of Oracle Exadata are good. When comparing the performance to other technologies it is very good. I am satisfied with the management of the solution."
"Exadata with the In-Memory option is several levels about SAP HANA."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"Exadata is also a very stable environment. Their Smart Scan feature is great for every banking environment and financial institutions willing to implement it."
"They just have a lot of products, and they work well together."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"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."
"Ultimately, the product itself has challenges and we are not currently satisfied with the support, either."
"Containers get corrupted very easily. Restoring them using GPFS can result in a lot of issues."
"Tech support for dashDB is awful. We usually have tickets open for three to four weeks."
"Right now, we are implementing on ESX VMware 6.0. Support for this platform is poor. Also, one of the backup/recovery options is broken and IBM is not addressing the issue."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"The technical support is in need of improvement."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"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."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is ranked 15th in Cloud Data Warehouse while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud writes "The "prefetch" feature anticipates needed data and keeps it available. BLU acceleration determines what data is unqualified for analysis and skips it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". IBM Db2 Warehouse on Cloud is most compared with Amazon Redshift, IBM Db2 Warehouse, IBM Netezza Performance Server, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Snowflake, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift.
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