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 use the solution for our Java applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."
"The Oracle database is able to get the data, process it, and return it to the company's CEO's and CFO's within a single day, and thus they are able to find out yesterday's P and L by today. It has drastically reduced the amount and time of processing from seven days to one day."
"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."
"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."
"The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance."
"Oracle is easy to use for peripheral things, such as the data vault and the data firewall, data sync, and partitions. These are the features that give an edge to other databases."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"The product is flexible."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"Backup/Restore performance: Fast backups, fast restores (especially useful for creating clone environments)."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"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."
"Oracle Database Appliance could improve by having better integration."
"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."
"The solution's initial setup is not easy."
"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."
"The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."
"The solution takes a lot of time to clone the environment. I would like to see some improvement in the cloning support or the time it takes on the storage side."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"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."
"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."
"Patching must be simplified."
"A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata is that it's not very easy to use in a microservices environment. It's not easy to split databases, and if this was easier to do in Oracle Exadata, it would make the solution better. What I'd like to see in the next release of Oracle Exadata is for it to become more modular, so you can use it in a context where the data layer is spread between many independent services."
"I would like to see more database features and maybe more archiving features, because we need to do data archiving."
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 "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". 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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