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."Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"Tools like the BI and SAS are excellent."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"The solution has been reliable."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"We are able to monitor daily jobs, so if there is anything that needs to be done then we can do it."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"Regarding features, there are so many that we can offer to customers. When we sell Exadata Cloud, there are many options to choose from, especially when it comes to enterprise database options. In my experience, the main features that are appreciated are various ones like GPS and the assortment of security options."
"A very stable solution, which we have hardly any problems with."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"The reporting for certain types of data needs to be improved."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"The initial setup process is very difficult and extremely complex."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"We had issues with system restoration."
"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."
"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."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"There is room for improvement with the handling of the Temp IO, which is often used for JOIN statements."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 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 "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, 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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