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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Oracle Database Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The integrated workspace in Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics where everything comes together, such as Power BI and Data Factory, is very good. Additionally, the ability to do dedicated SQL pooling is a benefit.""They are very reliable and cost-effective.""It is a highly stable solution and it's easy to use.""Very interactive and provides flexibility.""Our primary use case is for gathering data and analytics. We provide insights into vehicle data. We gather millions of records per second and we have various millions of vehicles running across.""I like how Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics integrates with other Microsoft solutions.""The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is the capabilities, and the integration with other Azure resources, such as Data Factory, Databricks, and Spark for data processing. The overall ability to compose the solution with other Azure resources is valuable.""The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."

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"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years.""The tool is a specific and effective system. I am impressed with its usability.""The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance.""I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes.""Oracle has good technical support.""The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day.""The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings.""Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."

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Cons
"The product needs a tool that allows for work from a laptop instead of a browser.""Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics's pricing could be reduced.""More integration is needed to improve the product for the future.""When I was trying to link services to an SFTP site it was not able to do all the possible encryption that I needed. They can improve by adding more encryption options.""It's a complicated product.""The support and price could improve.""From an infrastructure standpoint, I believe it can be more secure in terms of availability.""I'm not entirely happy with the billing model. I'm not entirely happy with how the enterprise services are pretty expensive, but that's about it."

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"In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing.""The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler.""I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions.""Since we don't have the room to scale up, I rate this solution a six out of ten for scalability.""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.""They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform.""Oracle's product support is an area of concern where improvements are required.""Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The price of this solution could be improved."
  • "The pricing is okay. You can pay as you go."
  • "This solution starts at €1000.00 a month for just the basics and can go up to €300,000.00 per month for the fastest version."
  • "When we are not using this solution we can simply shut it down saving us costs, which is a nice advantage."
  • "The licensing fees for this solution are on a pay-per-use basis, and not very expensive."
  • "All of the prices are available online."
  • "Our license is very expensive"
  • "They are cost aggressive, and it integrates well with other Microsoft tools."
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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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    Top Answer:The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.
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    Also Known As
    Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft Azure SQL DW, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, MS Azure Synapse Analytics
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    Overview

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that successfully combines analytical services to merge big data analytics and enterprise data warehouses into a single unified platform. The solution can run intelligent distributed queries among nodes, and provides the ability to query both relational and non-relational data.

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is built with these 4 components:

    1. Synapse SQL
    2. Spark
    3. Synapse Pipeline
    4. Studio

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Features

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics has many valuable key features, including:

    • Cloud Data Service: WIth Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can operate services (data analytics, machine learning, data warehousing, dashboarding, etc.) in a single workspace via the cloud.

    • Structured and unstructured data: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics supports both structured and unstructured data and allows you to manage relational and non-relational data - unlike data warehouses and lakes that tend to store them respectively.

    • Effective data storage: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers next-level data storage with high availability and different tiers.

    • Responsive data engine: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics uses Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) and is designed to handle large volumes of data and analytical workloads efficiently without any problems.

    • Several scripting languages: The solution provides language compatibility and supports different programming languages, such as Python, Java, Spark SQL, and Scala.

    • Query optimization: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics works well to facilitate limitless concurrency and performance optimization. It also simplifies workload management.

    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics include:

    • Database templates: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics offers industry-specific database templates that make it easy to combine and shape data.

    • Better business insights: With Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics you can expand discovery of insights from all your data and apply machine learning models to all your intelligent apps.

    • Reduce project development time: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics makes it possible to have a unified experience for developing end-to-end analytics, which reduces project development time significantly.

    • Eliminate data barriers: By using Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, you can perform analytics on operational and business apps data without data movement.

    • Advanced security: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics provides both advanced security and privacy features to ensure data protection.

    • Machine Learning: Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics integrates Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Power BI.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics users who are currently using the solution.

    PeerSpot user Jael S., who is an Information Architect at Systems Analysis & Design Engineering, comments on her experience using the product, saying that it is “Scalable, intuitive, facilitates compliance and keeps your data secure”. She also says "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."

    Michel T., CHTO at Timp-iT, mentions that "the features most valuable are the simplicity, how easy it is to create a dashboard from different information systems."

    A Senior Teradata Consultant at a tech services company says, "Microsoft provides both the platform and the data center, so you don't have to look for a cloud vendor. It saves you from having to deal with two vendors for the same task."


    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.

    Sample Customers
    Toshiba, Carnival, LG Electronics, Jet.com, Adobe, 
    LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Comms Service Provider10%
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    Educational Organization32%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm32%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Retailer11%
    Transportation Company5%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise39%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise37%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise75%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews while Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Oracle Database 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 Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata, whereas Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio and Actian Ingres. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Database Appliance report.

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