We performed a comparison between Oracle Big Data Appliance 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 best thing about the product is that the end-user can build the reports by themselves without really knowing anything about databases."
"Because Big Data Appliance allows me to have a single source of truth, it means I have clean data that can be monetized and leveraged to gain more insights with real-time reports from the dashboard."
"This is a comprehensive solution that is easy to deploy."
"The tool's performance is good."
"We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"From a technical perspective, Big Data Appliance could be improved with more innovation in the AI and machine-learning parts instead of relying on Cloudera."
"The product should be simplified for the average user."
"It seems like the deployment of repositories has become more difficult in later versions of the product rather than easier."
"Patching must be simplified."
"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."
"It would be good if Exadata made some new features available regarding data retrieval and speed capacity functions."
"I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"There is a feature for security, but it is not included in the first purchase of this solution. That means if you need to increase the security, you need to buy the security feature which doesn't come by default on these solutions."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
Oracle Big Data Appliance is ranked 14th in Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Big Data Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Big Data Appliance writes "Fast, and you don't need technical expertise to use it and produce results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Big Data Appliance is most compared with Apache Hadoop, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Teradata, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and IBM Db2 Warehouse. See our Oracle Big Data Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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