We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Oracle Big Data Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Oracle, Teradata and others in Data Warehouse."The pricing seems to be quite fair."
"The product is very user friendly."
"Its seamless integration with Azure services is most valuable. If somebody wants to use all Azure services, it is the best solution."
"I have not used the technical support from Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, but I worked with the developers at Microsoft who were top-notch."
"We also like governance. It looks at what the requirements are for the company to identify the best way to ensure compliance is met when you move to the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the incremental load because we do not need to refresh the entire data on a daily basis."
"The solution operates like a typical SQL Server environment so there is no alienation in terms of technical knowledge."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"The best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"In the future, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the performance, there are other solutions that are better, such as Databricks."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics's overall integration within the Azure ecosystem could improve. The native Microsoft solution versus another solution, such as Databricks, there are areas where there could be some improvements."
"An area for improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its user interface. You can use it for analytical purposes, but its platform should be a little bit more user-friendly. Another small point for improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its stability. It's good currently, but it could still be improved. Microsoft is combining different tools and technologies into one solution, so in the future, I'm expecting to see even more improvement in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next version of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is the drag-and-drop feature. If you're doing some integrations where you can write Scala or you have SPARK programming or SQL, or you're combining different programming, the process should be seamless, and you should be able to drag and drop in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics. When doing reporting in the solution, you should also be able to drag and drop. There should be connectors available and a drag-and-drop feature available in the user interface of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, so you won't have to worry about how all processes would work together. You need to be able to drag and drop even from the backend, and having this feature will make the solution more user-friendly."
"Integration with other vendors has limitations and could be improved."
"The macro functions, though useful, are not totally user-friendly. Some people have difficulties in learning them."
"I would like my team to be able to build pipelines that integrate with the Azure Data Factory."
"I would like to see better integration with Active Directory, because we have had problems, and we still do."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews while Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 12th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata, whereas Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Apache Hadoop and Teradata.
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