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We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and VMware Tanzu Greenplum 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.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the smart scan. We have large TB sessions of approximately 100 per second for each of our three instances. The smart scan allows us the obtain data in time in the enterprise manager.""It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance.""Parallelism is the most valuable feature.""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 most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network.""The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable.""It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.""It is a scalable solution."

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"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics.""Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture.""The most valuable feature for us is horizontal scaling.""It works very well with large database queries.""With VMware Tanzu Greenplum, one can make a huge database table and analyze the queries by adding in the SQL command. Some hint or command for the query goes over the multi-parallel execution.""We chose Greenplum because of the architecture in terms of clustering databases and being able to have, or at least utilize the resources that are sitting on a database.""It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop.""Scalability is simple because it's an MPP database. If you need more processing power or you need more storage, you just add a few more nodes in the cluster. It works on common commodity hardware. You can use any type of server. You don't need to have proprietary hardware. It's fairly flexible."

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Cons
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution.""We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components.""Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues.""I liked Spark, but it was discontinued when Exadata L6 came back. I loved it, and I wish they would bring back Spark integration.""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.""The improvement could be made on the hardware level as the habit in the industry is to go better and faster and larger with every iteration.""Certification should also be improved. Today, Oracle doesn't certify applications with engineered systems.""It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."

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"They need to enhance integration with other Big Data products... to integrate with Big Data platforms, and to open a bi-directional connection between Greenplum and Big Data.""Lacks sufficient inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases.""The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization.""One of the disadvantages, not a disadvantage with the product itself, but overall, is the expertise in the marketplace. It's not easy to find a Greenplum administrator in the market, compared to other products such as Oracle.""VMware Tanzu Greenplum needs improvement in the memory area and improved methods for quick access to the disc. So, one of the quick goals of Greenplum must work on enhancing access to the disc by adding hints in the database.""I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement.""The installation is difficult and should be made easier.""they need to interact more with customers. They need to explain the features, especially when there are new releases of Greenplum. I know just from information I've found that it has other features, it can be used to for analytics, for integration with Big Data, Hadoop. They need to focus on this part with the customer."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "In the sizing phase, you can also decide whether to license all cores, or reduce the number cores using capacity-on-demand features of Exadata, as well. This has a direct impact on licensing."
  • "The Initial investment price could use improvement"
  • "I think it's free."
  • "The price is very high."
  • "Exadata is an expensive tool, but, considering the ROI, it's worth going for the solution."
  • "Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
  • "It is an expensive product and you pay more for certain performance enhancements."
  • "All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
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  • "It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
  • "Pricing is good compared to other products. It's fine."
  • "We are using the open-source version of this solution."
  • "Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money."
  • "It’s an open-source solution."
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    Answers from the Community
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    Bill Porter - PeerSpot reviewerBill Porter
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    Hi @JohnSmith130,


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    SDF has been used in various migration projects and we have sufficient knowledge of both your source and target to have a sensible conversation about your requirements if you’re interested.


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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
    Top Answer:The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases. Less cost would enable most customers to choose the product.
    Top Answer:Patching must be simplified. We have various levels of patching in the solution. Most of them are online, split into various components. A single way of patching would be better.
    Top Answer:It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.
    Top Answer:Maintenance is time-consuming. It takes time to VACUUM and ANALYZE the tables to remove the fragmentations.
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    Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum
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    Overview

    Oracle Exadata allows enterprises to run any Oracle Database workload with the highest performance, scale, availability, and security on fully compatible cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Exadata uses a scale-out design with unique optimizations that include persistent memory, SQL query offload, and built-in resource management to optimize performance for OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads running in consolidated environments. By running hundreds or thousands of optimized Autonomous Database and Exadata Database instances on Exadata Cloud or Cloud@Customer infrastructure, customers are able to minimize their infrastructure, reduce management, improve developer productivity, and lower total costs by up to 40%, as described in Wikibon’s analysis (PDF).

    The main benefit of Exadata is its speed. It hosts operating systems, CPU memory, and hard drives. It runs all types of databases, including online transaction systems, processors, and data warehouses, while remedying the poor performances of older databases.

    Oracle Exadata features a simple and fast database storage system that protects and backs up your critical data. It accelerates data warehouse performance for faster access to business information and data. It is the ideal database solution for companies looking to build up their infrastructure from scratch.

    Oracle Exadata Database Machine Key Benefits

    • Rapid, reliable, and scalable deployment: Exadata is the most cost-efficient and highest performance platform for running Oracle databases. Exadata’s deployment is very straightforward since the database servers, storage servers, and network are pre-configured, pre-tuned and pre-tested by Oracle experts. This ensures that all your components work seamlessly together. Any Oracle Database application can be seamlessly migrated to and from the Exadata Database Machine, with no changes to the original application.

    • Powerful, cutting-edge hardware: Exadata is the most versatile database platform. It uses powerful database servers and a scaled-out, intelligent storage layer.

    • Accelerate database processing: Exadata Storage Server implements a unique, highly efficient database-optimized storage infrastructure that enables Exadata’s unparalleled performance without any of the bottlenecks that traditional storage experiences. Each storage server contains CPU processors that are used to offload database processing. The CPUs in the storage servers do not replace database CPUs, but work alongside them to accelerate database workloads.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Oracle Exadata stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its robust performance and its wide variety of database features that make it a comprehensive database solution.

    Adriano S., an IT system integrator at a financial services firm, writes, "Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We are very satisfied with it. The previous equipment used to make a payment for all the government employees used to take at least two days for some of the transactions. Now, it will take hours to make the same amount of payments. Another thing is the flexibility to organize all our databases. We can use it with new features that come with this version of Oracle 19c, which is the container database. With container databases, we can work with many databases, organized, and segregated, and still access the functions and management, the things that most of the technical people like to have in place."

    Paulo X., a sales manager at LTA-RH Informatica, notes, "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."

    VMware Tanzu Greenplum is a massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform that enables organizations to store, manage, and analyze large volumes of data. It provides a unified analytics platform that supports various data types and sources, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. 

    The solution is highly scalable and can be deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid environments. It includes advanced security features, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. Tanzu Greenplum provides a comprehensive set of tools and services for building, deploying, and managing modern applications.

    Sample Customers
    PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
    General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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    Buyer's Guide
    Oracle Exadata vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle Exadata vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Very fast, scalable, stable, and demonstrates good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Teradata, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake and Vertica, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Vertica, Oracle Database Appliance, Apache Hadoop, Snowflake and Teradata. See our Oracle Exadata vs. VMware Tanzu Greenplum report.

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