We performed a comparison between Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Oracle Exadata 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."The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are its serverless flexibility and complete power have allowed me to explore various different use cases. While I am not an expert in the product, my experience in programming in Databricks has shown me that Microsoft's investments in Synapse could potentially lead to it becoming a complete replacement for Databricks in the future."
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"The product works well with other Azure products."
"Azure Synapse combines the strengths of SQL technologies for effective enterprise data management."
"Synapse makes it easy to integrate and onboard data from other Microsoft and Azure sources. The interface is familiar because we were using Azure Data Factory before Synapse. It made the transition even easier because the Synapse interface is exactly the same."
"Data can be stored any way you want in the data warehouse."
"It's scalable; you can scale up and scale down."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are the interface and the agility of the on-cloud platform."
"What I found most valuable in Oracle Exadata is its newer technology that gives better performance. It has more recent hardware and significant changes in the architecture, so it's better than older solutions."
"The product is flexible."
"Exadata is a fantastic machine. Two features stand out. The first is the resource input/output management tool that allows you to manage the resources to the neck on the Exadata box."
"The data replication is very good."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"The most valuable feature is that you have the same familiar environment of an Oracle database but with the additional performance you get from this architecture."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"Synapse makes it easy to integrate and onboard data from other Microsoft and Azure sources. The interface is familiar because we were using Azure Data Factory before Synapse. It made the transition even easier because the Synapse interface is exactly the same."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics can improve by adding more flexibility to the reports. Having more visible structures based on the area, region and country would be beneficial."
"I would like to see version control implemented into the data warehouse."
"While the solution is flexible, sometimes this works against the user."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"The support and price could improve."
"I am pretty sure that there are areas that need improvement but I just can think of them off the top of my head."
"It would be of interest to improve things like the web service integration and availability in terms of being easy to create internal web services in the database."
"In a future release, I would like to see some upgrade analysis advisors to help with a clear roadmap on steps that need to be taken and some of the automated processes."
"Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"The performance could be improved."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. 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 Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Snowflake. See our Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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