We performed a comparison between Nutanix Database Service and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database Development and Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has some very good features. It really works with multiple silos in terms of infrastructure, database updates, and migration. So many things are easy with Era."
"The most valuable feature of Nutanix Database Service is the ability to manage multiple vendors."
"The most valuable feature is its robust infrastructure management tools."
"There are a lot of options for working with the database."
"It saves operation time and day-to-day tasks."
"One feature that is very good is the backup and validation process that's built into Era."
"The patching is the most valuable feature. We spent a lot of time and effort on the patching of our SQL instances after hours. With Nutanix Era, you can schedule and automate them during your normal operational hours (during the day). You schedule all the patching, then everything happens automatically with minor tickets from the engineer. So, our patching, which took four hours, went down to an hour for the engineer. This is much better for us from a return on investment perspective."
"It has wizards that are very helpful in the installation, and it handles automation as well as virtualization once deployed."
"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is scalable."
"Their support is helpful, but maybe they need more technical staff. Their response was slow once, but that was the only time it happened, so I'm not sure."
"The downside of this solution is that it's more expensive than its competitors."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing structure."
"Patch management is an issue as it regularly causes stability problems."
"The solution could improve by providing more support for more vendors."
"The solution should provide more integration with more databases."
"The updating of the database engine is something that can be improved. For example, assume that we are using PostgreSQL out of the box, and it is version 10. If we want to migrate to version 11, 12, or 13, then it is not very easy to do that using Nutanix Era."
"The initial setup was a little tedious and complex. If they could make the setup slightly more user-friendly, then that would definitely be beneficial. If they could give a clear indication of what ports are required across the business and multiple VLANs, then your prep work can be done beforehand and before you do the actual installation. Because the documentation that was provided was not 100 percent accurate, so we had to do a lot of custom firewall rules after we deployed Nutanix Era."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
Nutanix Database Service is ranked 5th in Database Development and Management with 16 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Nutanix Database Service is rated 8.4, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Nutanix Database Service writes "A single solution that provides you new deployments and monitoring as well as everything in one bucket". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Nutanix Database Service is most compared with Oracle Enterprise Manager, VMware Postgres, VMware Tanzu GemFire and EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Tableau. See our Nutanix Database Service vs. Oracle Essbase report.
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