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.
"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drives: This technology brings outstanding I/O performance for midsize databases. We have tested it by doing POCs on customer sites and the results were quite satisfying."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a stable solution. We have clients that have been running it for 10 years."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
"The performance of the system is the solution's most valuable aspect. In combination with the database, it gives perfect results. It's a better system than using other kinds of integrated systems. In general, the ODA control is much simpler to use and offers up the best performance."
"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase."
"Oracle Database Appliances are specifically designed for Oracle databases. They have built-in utilities and tools that simplify management, making them the best option for Oracle database management systems."
"We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"What I like best about Oracle Exadata is its good performance. It's also a very fast solution."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"The new Exadata x9m has an even higher speed of 100GBps connectivity."
"The technical support team are real professionals. I admire their technical skills and supports. Their supports are really admirable."
"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"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."
"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."
"I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."
"I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions."
"In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution."
"Oracle Database Appliance could improve by having better integration."
"The product's pricing is too high. We plan to migrate to another database in three to four years."
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software."
"Sometimes, we cannot upgrade or patch it easily. The performance needs to improve."
"Patching must be simplified."
"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."
"The handling of temp space has room for improvement."
"We used the support from Oracle Exadata to complete the implementation."
"The management monitoring tools are quite important and an area that needs some improvement."
"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"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."
"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 Database Appliance is ranked 7th in Data Warehouse with 40 reviews while Oracle Exadata is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 125 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Oracle Exadata is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Exadata writes "Offers a variety of valuable features". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with VMware Tanzu Data Services, 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 Data Services. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Oracle Exadata report.
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