We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Oracle Exadata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle Exadata is the winner in this comparison due to its scaling abilities. Oracle Database Appliance does come out on top in the Ease of Deployment category, however.
"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"If the database goes down on one of the servers, the load is automatically shifted to another server. You can troubleshoot the one that is down without affecting uptime."
"We value the appliance architecture with its “everything-in-a-box” highly standardized setup."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."
"The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks."
"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."
"It has improved the performance, now we run with more performance cores with less CPU to attend all the database demands. Reducing Time to Market, increase our ability to face the competition with speed and low cost."
"The ease of setup is an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"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."
"Oracle Exadata is stable."
"It offers a significant advantage for accommodating a large number of users."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"The setup is a bit complex."
"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."
"Oracle Database Appliance patching comes out two to three months after the regular patching cycle."
"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."
"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."
"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."
"Technical support is not so great. It could be much better. The maintenance, for an enterprise system, isn't so great. It's also extremely expensive."
"The main thing would be to make ODA more affordable, to make it a more economical machine. Also, I would like to see virtualization, so you could implement all of your functions on one machine. Finally, improvement in the speed and performance would be good."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the monitoring system in the enterprise manager, it could be more user-friendly. In most Oracle tools there is a lot of functionality, and sometimes you need to do five or six clicks to find metrics, and sometimes it's a waste of time."
"We have a little trepidation with the system as it does have a learning curve. Also changing to a binary logging format for us feels like retrograde motion, but sadly almost all Linux variants have moved in this direction."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"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."
"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."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres, Vertica and Azure Data Factory, whereas Oracle Exadata is most compared with Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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