Oracle Exadata Previous Solutions

FG
IT Architect at TIM

We used AIX and Db2, and currently, we're still switching our databases over to Oracle Exadata.

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Rodion Bykadorov - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at SA Capital

I have used other solutions, such as PostgreSQL, Amazon, and Microsoft. The features that Oracle Exadata has these other solutions do not, such as smart scan or monitoring. If we were to have the same performance as Oracle Exadata, we would have to have more hardware.

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RP
SubDirector of Project Management at DISH

We used a different solution a long, long time ago. It may have been something like InfoWorks. However, as I said, it was quite some time in the past.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

We have been running and recommending Exadata since version 1 for our customers. For Oracle databases, there is no better solution.

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EA
Sr. Director, Systems & Databases at GTech

Our customers were using conventional converged infrastructures and standalone servers. The reason they switched can be explained with the following list of items:

  • Exadata is optimized by Oracle for Oracle databases.
  • All the costs, capabilities and expected results are actually already defined for Exadata. No big surprises.
  • Single vendor support for the whole stack.
  • Unique and innovative capabilities, such as Smart Scan, Exabus and HCC.
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CB
Senior Technical Director at AEM Corporation

We didn't switch, we were doing a technology refresh and went with Exadata instead of building out our own Oracle RAC configuration. We previously had a combination of Dell servers, Red Had Linux OS, Oracle Cluster File System on EMC Storage with Juniper switches. This configuration had lots of performance issues, node evictions, and constant headaches. Since moving to Exadata, all those pain points went away.

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EP
Deputy CEO, CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Ten years ago, my company migrated from IBM Db2 to Oracle Exadata because, upon calculation, Oracle Exadata is more beneficial from an economic point of view than IBM Db2.

My company was on some mainframe legacy software and IBM Db2, and it had many problems, so it decided to switch to Oracle Exadata. That was more of a platform-related migration than a database-related migration. My company made the right decision to move to Oracle Exadata.

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GO
Data Quality Software Development Manager at Yapı Kredi Bank

Previous to this solution, we were using a normal Oracle RAC service. We were just waiting for this product to come out.

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it_user452334 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Principal Consultant at Pythian

A lot of the times it ends up being complaints from the user community, and difficulty with strategic activities that the system performs. If you're running a commercial off the shelf application against these engineered system, sometimes it's a little more complex to work with a third party vendor, to speed things up. Mainly it's complaints from the user community. You and I both know that if something takes four seconds all the time and takes seven seconds some of the time, all the people are going to remember is the seven seconds.

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DP
Data Center Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We previously used Sophos for a ten-year run.

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MA
System Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We previously used normal HW, then moved to VMware, then moved to Exadata to get good performance and consolidated platform for DBs.

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it_user396558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Lead - Infrastructure Design Database at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

What everyone needs to understand is that Exadata is a database consolidation platform, and is not designed as a virtualization platform. Therefore, there are security considerations if you plan to use Exadata to host multiple applications that require certain levels of segregation at the network, storage, and operating system levels.

What makes Exadata different than competitors is that it is not designed only for a specific application (as in SAP HANA), and is not only for a certain type of workload (as in Teradata).

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it_user238071 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Global Database Architect at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Oracle database on HPUX. We switched because it was impossible to deliver performance without additional indexes. Indexes took up space and slowed down data insertion performance. Exadata solved these by enhancing performance without the need for indexes.

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it_user515301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We never used any other solutions before and we are only using Oracle form the beginning.

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it_user517617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

ODA and standalone.

Scalability and consolidation.

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it_user247236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and President at Viscosity North America

Lot of our customers come from best of breed technologies (UCS/Dell/HP, EMC/Hitachi) to choosing Exadata. Typically, our customers choose Exadata for pure performance in IOPs, throughput, and low latency for their database workloads; however, we have seen a trend of customers choose the Exadata platform because they are short staffed, have high rates of attrition, and thus, have inability to support the hardware and software technologies.

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MR
Solution Sales Specialist at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We are only working with Oracle. We haven't used a different solution. 

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it_user403353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DBA and Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Previously, we had multiple servers both with and without physical partitioning. The storage for all of the servers had to be zoned to a SAN. The servers and the storage previously were from different vendors and we had to integrate those. Other product offerings were evaluated, but with all of those we had to explicitly integrate the compute, storage, and networking components. In addition, we could not get the benefits of database optimizations with Exadata and have to pay the penalty for virtualization overhead and network traffic between compute and storage layers.

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it_user259974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA with 1,001-5,000 employees

AIX, and we switched partly due to a hardware refresh, and partly due to performance, and the growth of some of the applications.

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IB
Head of Data Value at Innova-tsn

As a consultancy, we work with a variety of products. This includes Oracle and Snowflake, for example.

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it_user521637 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence and Data Integration Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

It was end of life for our previous hardware. We had to buy something. The Exadata just seemed to be a better solution.

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it_user521913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We previously just had commodity servers that we replaced with Exadata for the ease of convenience.

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it_user515445 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager

We switched due to our corporate growth and our performance needs.

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it_user419178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Enterprise Database Admin at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

We previously used IBM InfoSphere Warehouse.

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EP
Deputy CEO, CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

We developed some software for migration. The previous database was on the mainframe server and it was quite a nice product. We have a lot of experience, both with Oracle Exadata, with other databases, and other systems that we also use. We work with many solutions and we use what we think is best for a particular task. Contextual databases work especially well with Exadata.   

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SH
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We haven't used Engineered Systems for Oracle database platforms, though, we were on various platforms that were difficult to manage and maintain.

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Javid Ur Rahaman - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, Infrastructure,Data Management Services & AI Evangelist at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Traditional Oracle RAC to Oracle Exadata RAC due to having scalable and robust database consolidated platform for upcoming release 12.2, which can consolidate multi-character sets within a single container and heterogeneous data guard support.

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it_user521562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Administrator

We were using ODS.

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it_user515163 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Programmer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not use a previous solution.

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it_user522234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not previously use a different solution. It's a data warehousing product. I know you can use it for online transaction processing, but it's perfectly wonderful for data warehousing. It has a tremendous increase in performance; it's like night and day. We still have some people that are on old systems that we're moving and it's like night and day. You can put really lousy code on it and make that code run good. I'm not saying the code was lousy; I'm just saying that Exadata handles the code differently. If you know how to optimize it, you have to optimize it, though. If you try to put the old code on, don't make your indexes invisible and don't understand how it works, you can actually cause a degradation in performance. You need someone on staff or Oracle help with the understanding of what the differences are, so that you can really make it work for you.

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JS
Database Infrastructure Cloud Architect-Oracle,AWS Migration,Upgardes(Cassandra,Postgres,Hadoop BI) at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Traditional RAC to optimize all-in-one appliance hardware, database, software, network, storage.

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it_user419811 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator & technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There was no solution previously in place.

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it_user275232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We were convinced that with Exadata we would be able to consolidate our databases, have a serious performance boost, and leave a smaller footprint on the Data Center.

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it_user240024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

In the past, the complexity of building your own database environment was a long and tedious process. From deciding on the hardware and the operating system, to installation, patching, creating and configuring the database... It took such a long time that the benefits of the Exadata appliance are more than obvious nowadays. In a make-it-all-yourself solution, identifying the problems took a long time, and sometimes issues were never identified. The all-by-one-vendor approach has its benefits. Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket, is what I would say.

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it_user521958 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Data Warehouse Development | Business Intelligence at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Previously, we just used regular Oracle databases on standard hardware. Now, most of our products are on their own silo databases. Now, we're pushing them all to a single Exadata, using Exadata solutions.

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it_user457482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

There was no solution in place previously.

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it_user259971 - PeerSpot reviewer
ITA - Oracle Apps DBA at Tata Consultancy Services

We used both EMC Storage and IBM Servers.

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AS
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

When we started the company, we thought about the responsibilities that the company would have attending to all the requests from the government and that we would need to go to robot technology. We thought in 2002 to go directly to work with the Oracle database. So Oracle database was the first database technology we decided to use as our strategic plan for the stability of the company.

At that time, we start working with the small machines and after two or three years, we realized that there are a lot of scalability problems with those kinds of machines and stability issues with this kind of hardware. So that's why we we had lots of downtime and we spent lots of time correcting these kinds of problems instead of thinking about growing the business. So we moved these small machines to a bigger one in 2010. That's all extra data with the X-2 version, but these kinds of machines are getting old and they are out of order now. We cannot buy the spare parts or anything else we need. So we decided to keep using all of the technology, but moved from that environment to a new machine with a better performance.

This has seen better performance. That's why we are still working with only one technology, Oracle.

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it_user296958 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We were using an HPE solution, but as we were outgrowing our storage requirements, we explored other alternatives. Exadata seemed a very logical choice for consolidating all our databases in one place.

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it_user395682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DBA - RAC and Exadata at a tech services company

Yes, I have worked as DBAs on traditional Oracle RDBMS versions 9I, 10G and 11G. My previous employer has deployed large DW database into Exadata with great success. Also, Worksafe has decided to move/consolidate many smaller servers/databases into large Exadata clusters. My opinion is that in both cases business users are pretty happy with the database performance and stability on Exadata servers so far.

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it_user517464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not use a solution previous to this one.

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KK
Exadata Certified and Oracle Certified DBA Consultant at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

Earlier, we used SAN and the traditional servers. That was also good and time-tested for decades. This is all together a new concept.

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it_user521985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did look at other products but Oracle has its way of marketing. We had IBM as the other competitor, but I don't know whether they have any product equal to Exadata.

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it_user522228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No. It's just my focus of work. I'm supposed to work on Oracle products and their VM solutions, Oracle VM.

I do use the VirtualBox, but that's not enterprise grade, I don't think. Customers in an enterprise environment would not deploy VirtualBox for productions, but they would go with the normal VM for that.

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RS
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
it_user448662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had been using Oracle RAC on EMC disk array with Dell servers until the performance cannot really meet Oracle OBIEE application and some data warehouse applications’ performance requirement. We did look at Netezza and Datallegro, but they didn’t run the SQL that compatible with Oracle. By then Oracle Exadata seemed the only logical option for us. We also had a business reason to purchase Oracle Exadata at that time.

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it_user259683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

No previous solution was used.

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it_user242436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Principal Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Storage growth, and the possibility of utilising HCC to drive this down was a large driver for switching.

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it_user521775 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Lead PeopleSoft FIN at a religious institution with 1,001-5,000 employees

Someone in the upper management decided to spend some money, and we had the machines; he said use them.

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it_user521901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Section Of DB Ms Support And Deployment at Sportmaster

We just switched from another older version of Exadata to the newest one.

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it_user515226 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We used a plain database before this.

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it_user521541 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We were not using any other solution prior to this. The reason why we chose this product is because we had already invested in Oracle and they had this to offer, so we continued with it.

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it_user177636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst ( Senior Oracle DBA) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Previously, we used SQL tuning, server tuning along with network tuning with huge storage and higher CPUs. It was a management decision, along with our recommendations, to move to Exadata.

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it_user270906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We switched because we get better reliability and scalablity, as well as improved performance and a smaller footprint in the datacenter.

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it_user701433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle RAC / Exadata Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Previously, we were using the standard UNIX clustering servers. Performance and scalability are the reasons as to why we switched over to this solution.

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it_user687189 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder/CTO/Chief Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We had disparate configurations, ranging from IBM AIX P-series, HP systems,
and older Solaris systems. We began our consolidation approach and
standardized on the Exadata for our Oracle Database 11.2 and above systems.

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it_user521853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at Qualys

We didn’t have any previous solution. We had different vendors, like a storage vendor, and the DB software was from Oracle. As a security company, we want to maintain our compliance by applying the latest patches. That's why we chose this engineered system: so that we have a single vendor we can contact easily.

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it_user259878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

In the past we used traditional RAC database architecture. We switched because this type of solution has many drawbacks, and Exadata is the best system for Oracle databases.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle Exadata
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle Exadata. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.