We performed a comparison between Oracle Exadata and Teradata based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Teradata has a slight edge in this comparison since it received slightly higher marks in the Ease of Deployment category.
"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."
"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."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"The product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is the integration with other solutions, such as SAN storage and shared VLAN network."
"On-premises Exadata is just as stable as the cloud version. It's a very stable platform."
"The offloading of data to the SIM is a valuable feature."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Teradata is the quick processing of large data."
"When it comes to integration, tools like Informatica seamlessly connect with Teradata. We ensure the Teradata database is configured correctly in Informatica, including the proper hostname and properties for the load process. We didn't find any major complexity or issues with integration."
"It effectively has allowed us to remove over 20 portion copies of the data sets on other DB platforms for real-time operational reporting purposes."
"Teradata is a great, industry-leading data warehousing product that has MPP architecture."
"It has given our business the ability to gain insights into the data and create data labs for analysis and PoCs."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"It's a pre-configured appliance that requires very little in terms of setting-up."
"It's very, very fast"
"The customization can sometimes be difficult to achieve."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility."
"Sometimes it takes too long time to get help with technical issues."
"Tech support sometimes takes some time to identify and rectify issues."
"There's room for improvement in terms of deployment, as it could be made faster and more user-friendly."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"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."
"Teradata can improve the way it handles big data and unstructured data."
"Teradata is an old data warehouse, and they're not improving in terms of new, innovative features."
"We tried to use case Teradata for a data warehouse system, but we had some problems in relation to the Teradata system, CDC tools, and source databases. We were unable to transfer data from HPE Integrity mainframe to Teradata."
"It needs a teaching web site with more training on third-party tools used for BI."
"Query language and its functionality are rather limited, compared to Oracle or even SQL Server. However, it is possible to perform any kind of logic in it (though some workarounds may be required)."
"There is some improvement required on OLTP level and some analytical function is missing."
"The cloud is the new challenge and the new opportunity."
"I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 124 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 54 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Offers seamless integration capabilities and performance optimization features, including extensive indexing and advanced tuning capabilities". Oracle Exadata is most compared with Oracle Database Appliance, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and VMware Tanzu Greenplum, whereas Teradata is most compared with SQL Server, Snowflake, MySQL, BigQuery and Amazon Redshift. See our Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata report.
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