Oracle Exadata vs Teradata comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 11, 2022
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Exadata
Ranking in Data Warehouse
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
125
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Teradata
Ranking in Data Warehouse
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (7th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Data Warehouse category, the market share of Oracle Exadata is 15.2% and it decreased by 28.5% compared to the previous year. The market share of Teradata is 15.6% and it increased by 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse
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Relational Databases Tools
5.9%
 

Featured Reviews

BJ
Feb 13, 2023
Very stable with complete management from one single address
Our company implements the solution for customer migrations. For example, one customer is a Saudi telecom company that is migrating their routers. Many customers deploy databases on the end of the solution. Some have courses with licenses so they use the formal cluster or complaint cluster to…
AK
Jun 15, 2017
With the current machine we are able to eliminate the use of OLAP cubes and allow customer queries to run directly on the Teradata machine.
The two types of partitioning have been very significant for us - row and columnar partitioning With the current machine we are able to eliminate the use of OLAP cubes and allow customer queries to run directly on the Teradata machine. We have now started running more profit generating activities…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is a highly relevant option with extreme performance."
"The performance of the data is the most important part."
"Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Exadata is its capabilities for storing and processing data. It is very good for our domain."
"Oracle has reliable solutions and this one is no different."
"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."
"Compression is a great feature, where one can really save a lot of storage."
"A conventional and easily defined way to build a data warehouse or a layer of data marts."
"The most valuable features are the large volume of data and the structuring of the data to optimize it and get very optimal data warehouse solutions for customers."
"The flexibility in design is very good."
"It has reduced a lot of reworking on maintaining indexes, partitions, etc."
"I like this solution's ease of design and the fact that its performance is quite good. It is stable as well."
"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."
"The performance is great, we are able to query our data in one operation."
"Teradata features high productivity and reliability because it has several redundancy options, so the system is always up and running."
 

Cons

"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"The setup is a little bit complex. We would like to see the installation part get easier."
"The solution could always be more stable and more reliable."
"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."
"It would be nice to have a single click button to, say, migrate my VMware VM into the Oracle VM, or vice-versa."
"We need a monitoring tool which can in one place, where we can manage, monitor the entire Exadata components."
"The analytics features must be improved."
"Oracle Exadata could improve the platform performance tuning should be easier, automated, and user-friendly."
"The solution needs improvement in its stability, support and pricing."
"Data ingestion is done via external utilities and not by the query language itself. It would be more convenient to have that functionality within its SQL dialect."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It could use some more advanced analytics relating to structured and semi-structured data."
"It's primarily designed for big projects and therefore, the pricing is pretty high. It's not suitable for smaller companies."
"The current operational approach needs improvement."
"Limited interest and success in some areas make us hesitate about upgrading."
"Needs compatibility with more Big Data platforms."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s cost is a little bit more than the traditional databases."
"All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
"The pricing of Oracle Exadata is too high."
"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."
"Our customers are always looking to reduce the license's cost."
"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."
"I think it's free."
"The solution is expensive."
"Price is quite high, so if it is really possible to use other solutions (e.g. you do not have strict requirements for performance and huge data volumes), it might be better to look at alternatives from the RDBMS world."
"The tool costs about 30,000 euros a month, while Azure Synapse SQL only costs 10,000."
"The solution requires a license."
"We are looking for a more flexible cost model for the next version that we use, whether it be cloud or on-premise."
"It is still a very expensive solution. While I very much like the pure technological supremacy of the software itself, I believe Teradata as a company needs to become more affordable. They are already losing the market to more flexible or cheaper competitors."
"Make sure you have the in-house skills to design and support the solution, as relying on external sources is extremely costly and tends to lock you into specific platforms, tools, and paradigms."
"The price of Teradata is expensive. However, what they deliver they are outstanding. If you're looking for an inexpensive solution to run a database, this isn't your tool. It's the Ferrari of databases for data warehousing."
"Teradata is expensive, so it's typically marketed to big customers. However, there have been some changes, and Teradata is now offering more flexible pricing models and equipment leasing. They've added pay-as-you-go and cloud models, so it's changing, but Teradata is generally known as an expensive high-end product."
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Comparison Review

it_user232068 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 5, 2015
Netezza vs. Teradata
Original published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/should-i-choose-net Two leading Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architectures for Data Warehousing (DW) are IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly Netezza) and Teradata. I thought talking about the similarities and differences…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Exadata?
It is the best solution for OLTP and data warehousing.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Exadata?
I rate the tool’s pricing a three out of ten. The solution is expensive.
What needs improvement with Oracle Exadata?
The product must make more investments in object storage technologies. Six to seven years ago, the product had an SQL-based analytics feature that did not work well. The vendor must consider invest...
Comparing Teradata and Oracle Database, which product do you think is better and why?
I have spoken to my colleagues about this comparison and in our collective opinion, the reason why some people may declare Teradata better than Oracle is the pricing. Both solutions are quite simi...
Which companies use Teradata and who is it most suitable for?
Before my organization implemented this solution, we researched which big brands were using Teradata, so we knew if it would be compatible with our field. According to the product's site, the comp...
Is Teradata a difficult solution to work with?
Teradata is not a difficult product to work with, especially since they offer you technical support at all levels if you just ask. There are some features that may cause difficulties - for example,...
 

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PayPal, EBS, Organic Food Retailer, Garmin, University of Minnesota, Major Semiconductor Company, Deutsche Bank, Starwood, Ziraat Bank, SK Telecom, and P&G.
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