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Oracle Multitenant vs Teradata comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Multitenant
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Teradata
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (6th), Backup and Recovery (20th), Data Integration (15th), Data Warehouse (3rd), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (9th), Marketing Management (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Relational Databases Tools category, the mindshare of Oracle Multitenant is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Teradata is 5.3%, up from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Saikat Nag - PeerSpot reviewer
Manages extensive utility billing applications efficiently with trusted performance and robust support
Currently, I have a very good experience with Oracle Multitenant. The pluggable database is easy to handle and manage, sharing resources efficiently. However, Oracle license pricing is an issue due to its high cost. Our organization is compelled to reduce CPU usage by seventy CPUs because the Oracle license cost depends on it.
RajeshKumar25 - PeerSpot reviewer
Harnessing advanced parallelism for top performance while embracing cloud trends
Teradata is primarily used for data warehousing across all customers. My clients have built-in applications that use Teradata, and their use varies from customer to customer, depending on the industry and database size. The primary function is as an OLAP analytical ecosystem Scalability is…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You can scale the solution as needed."
"I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten. Our clients are mostly medium and enterprise businesses."
"Our primary use of Oracle includes writing queries for retrieving data for customers without worrying about the customer ID, user ID, as it is automatically connected to each query."
"The stability of Oracle Multitenant is excellent, and I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"The feature that I like on Multitenant is the ease - it is very easy for my team to run the database."
"The most valuable features are the speed and ease of use."
"Maintaining databases is a valuable feature for us."
"The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine."
"The ease of deployment is useful so clients are up and running quickly in comparison to other products."
"Teradata can be deployed on-premise, on the cloud, or in a virtual machine, which means customers can move without having to create their architecture all over again."
"Improved performance of ETL procedures, reporting."
"It's very mature from a technology perspective."
"Teradata effectively uses parallelism to the granular level, performing better than other databases."
"​Parallel processing features have helped to easily dump any size of data and retrieve data with great performance."
"Auto-partitioning and indexing, and resource allocation on the fly are key features."
"It has massive parallel processing ability to do large amounts of concurrent querying."
 

Cons

"It can be complicated to scale up the solution, but it's scalable."
"Oracle license pricing is an issue due to its high cost. Our organization is compelled to reduce CPU usage by seventy CPUs because the Oracle license cost depends on it."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"The solution lacks a GUI for commands."
"While the product is overall excellent, it is quite expensive."
"From the scope of improvement, I would say that people are adopting new query options. Certain databases like MongoDB adopt new query options so that they can just pull the data."
"There are many functions where changes are not easy to implement, and we try to avoid modifying these areas due to security issues and the complexity of maintaining them."
"Technical support could be faster."
"Teradata needs to pay attention to the cloud-based solution to make sure it runs smoothly."
"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 following could be better: licensing, architecture openness, integration with other tools."
"I'm not sure about the unstructured data management capabilities. It could be improved."
"It is hard for some of our users to set up rules for cleansing and transforming data, so this is something that could be improved."
"The solution needs improvement in its stability, support and pricing."
"​I think the UI is not there yet. It could be improved by being more user-friendly.​"
"Teradata is a bit late for the cloud."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is worth the quality."
"This solution is a little bit pricey."
"For me, I will go with it if I have the budget. Some features are nicer than before, but at the end of the day, you always have a limited budget. I prefer to upgrade and get a specific hardware when possible. At the end, you will have to make a compromise. You will not get everything you would have liked to have."
"​When looking into implementing this product, pricing is the main issue followed by technical expertise​."
"The price of Teradata could be less expensive."
"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for Teradata IntelliFlex, which is very expensive."
"The cost is substantial, totaling around $1.2 million, solely dedicated to upgrading the hardware."
"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 product cost is high for what the client gets. There may be more cost-effective solutions for small and medium-sized organizations."
"In the past, it turned out that other solutions, in order to provide the full range of abilities that the Teradata platform provides plus the migration costs, would end up costing more than Teradata does."
"We are looking for a more flexible cost model for the next version that we use, whether it be cloud or on-premise."
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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
21%
Healthcare Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Multitenant?
The best thing about Oracle Multitenant is its ability to consolidate multiple databases into one engine.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Multitenant?
Oracle's licensing costs are very high. Due to the increased license costs, we migrated from Oracle hardware like SuperCluster and MiniCluster to HPE Nutanix to manage costs while continuing to use...
What needs improvement with Oracle Multitenant?
Currently, I have a very good experience with Oracle Multitenant. The pluggable database is easy to handle and manage, sharing resources efficiently. However, Oracle license pricing is an issue due...
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,...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Oracle Pluggable Database
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