We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse 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 UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is performance."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"One of the most important features is the ease of using MS SQL."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"The tool's performance is good."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"This solution would be improved with an option for in-memory data analysis."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"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."
"Since the product is an appliance, it is very costly."
"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 management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 12 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 25 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "User-friendly UI and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Exadata can significantly improve performance but there's a learning curve in a few key areas". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Amazon Redshift. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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You are asking about front end tools but you do not mention which ones. What you have are "database backends" and each has different features. The utilization will depend on what kind of expertise you have available else you will end up trying to implement say, Teradata on Exadata which may not give you the best solution. What are your criteria for success? Based on these you will have to evaluate each solution -- I am sure each vendor will be happy to set up the environment and work with your set of sampl,e data to show you have they evaluate against your criteria.
Given we partner with many or all of the above, or can get to them as we access all data, I have the following opinion - InfoBright is very new and probable to be sold long term. It is also an expensive subscription so presents highest risk to me. Exidata is Oracle - if you like Oracle and their style, it maybe ok, but then it is Oracle. Microsoft is Microsoft - tends to be cheap to acquire and expensive to implement and maintain. Teradata is pricey but of the group presents the least risk and the greatest number of front end partners. The product I represent is unique as it is designed for high complexity large numbers of users and data and runs inside Teradata taking better advantage of the architecture.
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