We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance 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."I think it scales really well and as long as you take enough time to learn a little bit about it, it works really well."
"It can be mounted on the cloud, which is a huge plus. If the client, for example, starts small with on-premise deployment and then it rapidly needs to grow, we can transfer this to the cloud easily."
"The standout feature of IBM Db2 Warehouse, which is particularly valuable for large enterprises, is its ability to handle big data."
"The analytics engine is not bad at forecasting predictions."
"Some of the best features are stored procedures, parallelism, and different indexing strategies."
"Provides good security and reliability."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"The solution is pretty automated, which takes out the possibility of human error."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes."
"There should be more material available for training and training should be free."
"IBM Db2 Warehouse needs to improve its interface."
"The biggest challenge anyone could have with Db2 Warehouse is their references or online resources and documentation. They are very, very, very limited on the web."
"Lacks sufficient documentation and particularly in Spanish."
"The biggest problems we have is when the backup solution is failing or slow and we run out of log space, which has happened probably a couple of times in the last four years."
"The areas of the solution that is needing the most improvement are separating compute from storage, elasticity, which means scaling up and then retracting."
"In terms of improvement, IBM Db2 Warehouse should be more scalable."
"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."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Oracle Database Appliance patching comes out two to three months after the regular patching cycle."
"The license cost could be cheaper, especially for long-term contracts."
"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."
"The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface."
"The tool's setup can be easier."
"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."
IBM Db2 Warehouse is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 8 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews. IBM Db2 Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Warehouse writes "Useful for ETL process and has good documentation ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". IBM Db2 Warehouse is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and Apache Hadoop, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Apache Hadoop. See our IBM Db2 Warehouse vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.
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