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Oracle Database Appliance vs VMware Tanzu Data Solutions comparison

Oracle and VMware are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Oracle is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.8, while VMware is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1. Oracle holds a 5.3% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to VMware’s 4.9% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of VMware users who would recommend it.
Oracle Database Appliance
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85% willing to recommend
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
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89% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions and Oracle Database Appliance compete in the data management and processing segment. VMware Tanzu appears to have an advantage in flexibility of deployment and cost-efficiency, while Oracle Database Appliance provides superior integration with Oracle applications.

Features: VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is known for Massively Parallel Processing (MPP), efficient query optimization, and scalability. Oracle Database Appliance offers exceptional integration with Oracle applications, virtualization, and simplicity in managing databases.

Room for Improvement: VMware Tanzu Data Solutions could enhance scaling, performance consistency, and integration with newer data technologies. Its use of older PostgreSQL versions is also noted as a limitation. Oracle Database Appliance users report difficulties in scaling beyond two-node configurations, high costs for patching cycles, and technical support expenses.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is versatile, supporting on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, and private cloud environments. Users find customer service satisfactory but rely on community forums for support. Oracle Database Appliance is mainly an on-premises solution with limited cloud options, offering quick deployment and reliable customer service despite its costly and sometimes slow technical support.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Tanzu Data Solutions benefits from an open-source structure, making it cost-effective with competitive licensing costs and good ROI. Conversely, Oracle Database Appliance is more costly, with significant licensing and infrastructure expenses, possibly less suitable for smaller businesses but justified by included hardware and features.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database Appliance
Ranking in Data Warehouse
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
43
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
Ranking in Data Warehouse
7th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Database Development and Management (7th), Relational Databases Tools (9th), Message Queue (MQ) Software (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Database Appliance is 5.3%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Tanzu Data Solutions is 4.9%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

AdnanNaseem - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers built-in utilities and tools that simplify management
Oracle often releases updated versions of Database Appliance with improvements. However, I think Oracle should focus on further automating database management and IT-related tasks, such as backups. They've made progress with daily database stat automation, which is a good feature. Moreover, every product benefits from new functionality over time. I would like to see a centralized terminal where we can easily manage the database and its components with drag-and-drop functionality instead of relying solely on commands. So, I would like to see a centralized dashboard. Other areas of improvement include customer service and support, and scalability.
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Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
The product improves site reliability, but it is not stable, and the initial deployment was a little difficult
When we had outages, we had timeouts. Sometimes, the nodes would drop out of a cluster. Therefore, the applications would get timeouts. There is a newer version out that we're planning to upgrade to for some stability. It could also be caused by our design. The product must improve its reliability. It'd be nice if nodes could drop out and notify each other in a timely manner so that the applications wouldn't know if there was a problem.
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are related to engineering systems, where Oracle acts as a hyperconverged infrastructure."
"Easy management (it saves a lot of installation and patching time)."
"The product’s valuable feature is its capability to pre-configure and pre-install the settings."
"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."
"Oracle has good technical support."
"The product is good value for money. It is a secure solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."
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"After creating a RabbitMQ service, they provide you with a sort of web management dashboard."
"The product has been stable and I have never faced any kind of problems with it."
"We have been able to set up a messaging system that facilitates data integration between the software modules that we sell."
"The solution can scale."
"The stability of this solution was very good."
"The parallel load features mean that Greenplum is capable of high-volume data loading in parallel to all of the cluster segments, which is really valuable."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
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Cons

"The product is quite complex to set up, initially. It would be ideal if it was simpler."
"In my opinion only one single command should be used for all ODA models, as it’s confusing."
"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."
"The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface."
"It would be beneficial to have dedicated RAM included in the Oracle Database Appliance."
"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."
"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."
"You can only scale storage, not developer nodes."
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"They should improve on the ability to scale your queues in a very simple and elegant way with the same power that they have would be great."
"VMware RabbitMQ needs to create a new queue system."
"Implementation takes a long time."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
"The product needs to focus on offering more use case documentation because browsing the internet to find it can be a process filled with struggles."
"The availability could be better."
"It doesn't have any GUI-based monitoring tools."
"The product has to improve the crisis management, especially in memory issues."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle Database Application's support and maintenance are included in the contract."
"Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."
"The price should be lower."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing seven and a half or eight out of ten."
"Get benefit from the capacity-on-demand features. License your cores according to your licenses."
"Oracle’s pricing is ridiculously high."
"The solution's pricing is very high."
"Oracle Database Appliance is a very expensive solution. If you have opted for the on-premises licenses from Oracle, then you have to pay yearly. If you have opted for the cloud subscriptions offered by Oracle, then you can pay either monthly or yearly."
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"It is the best product with best fit for price/performance customer objectives."
"Tanzu Greenplum's pricing is really competitive and gives excellent value for money."
"It’s an open-source solution."
"Since the tool is an open-source product, there is no need to pay anything."
"Pricing is good compared to other products. It's fine."
"The product is available for free use since it is an open-source technology."
"It is an open-source platform. Although, we have to pay for additional features."
"The price is pretty good."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
29%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?
Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?
I have heard from colleagues that Oracle is very costly compared to open databases like PostgreSQL. I cannot personally comment on it.
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What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?
The scalability part is missing. It isn't as popular as AWS, GCP, or Azure as it lacks scalability and cloud-native services like containerization. The Oracle cloud hasn't reached the level of offe...
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How does IBM MQ compare with VMware RabbitMQ?
IBM MQ has a great reputation behind it, and this solution is very robust with great stability. It is easy to use, simple to configure and integrates well with our enterprise ecosystem and protocol...
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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Greenplum?
The loading speed is very good.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Greenplum?
It’s an open-source solution. There are no expenses for using it.
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Also Known As

X5-2
Greenplum, Pivotal Greenplum, VMware RabbitMQ, VMware Tanzu GemFire, VMware Postgres
 

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Overview

Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

VMware Tanzu is a robust platform tailored for data warehousing, complex analytics, BI applications, and predictive analytics. It excels in scalability, performance, and parallel processing, enhancing data handling efficiency. Users report significant productivity improvements and streamlined operations, making it ideal for comprehensive data solutions.

 

Sample Customers

LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
General Electric, Conversant, China CITIC Bank, Aridhia, Purdue University
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