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.
"Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling."
"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."
"We can use virtualization on Exadata."
"Oracle Exadata's performance is one of its best features. We very satisfied with it."
"The most valuable feature is the time to solution."
"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."
"Parallelism is the most valuable feature."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The solution scales well on the cloud."
"The ability to handle machine data parallel processing is the most valuable feature of Teradata."
"We really enjoy the FastLoad, TPump, and MultiLoad features."
"The functionality of the solution is excellent."
"Teradata can be easily used in ETL mode transformations, so there is no need for expensive and inconvenient ETL tools"
"It has reduced a lot of reworking on maintaining indexes, partitions, etc."
"We did performance testing. We had a set of real life MicroStrategy reports. Our conditions were: Not allowed to redesign data model, not allowed to rewrite the queries, all queries should be generated by MicroStrategy, no aggregates. Teradata appeared to be way faster than a similarly configured (in terms of hardware) Oracle server."
"Teradata's capabilities enhance data management efficiency, support scalability, and contribute to faster query performance."
"The scalability can be improved as it is not a parallel execution."
"I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory."
"There is one aspect to Exadata that I dislike, and that's the inconsistency with other databases. When you try to get Exadata to function with another type of database like SQL, or others, there should be reliable and consistent operation. When this is improved on, we should start to see more applications growing the market."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"License or upgrade management can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console."
"We have experienced some issues with processing unstructured data on Exadata. This is an important requirement for our AIML based use case. Reactive analytics data can not be prepared easily in Oracle Exadata."
"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."
"The performance could be improved."
"Needs compatibility with more Big Data platforms."
"The capability to implement it with comparable performance across various private cloud environments, ensuring adaptability to different infrastructure setups would be beneficial."
"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)."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution is stable. However, there are times when we are using large amounts of data and we can see some latency issues."
"The increasing volumes of data demand more and more performance."
"The SQL Assistant is very basic. This tool can be improved for usability."
"The setup is not straightforward."
Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 25 reviews while Teradata is ranked 3rd in Data Warehouse with 21 reviews. Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4, while Teradata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Exadata can significantly improve performance but there's a learning curve in a few key areas". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Teradata writes "Very fast with good database control and excellent support". 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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