Oracle Exadata Reviews

The solution is used in enterprise applications with large databases for database consolidation. It can be used in the banking, finance, insurance, and telecom domain where performance is of prime importance.

We like the tool’s features like Smart Scan, Hybrid Columnar Compression, and the TFA.

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 have been working with the solution since 2011.

I would rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten. I haven’t seen any issues with the solution’s stability where it crashed.

I would rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten. We have around ten customers for the solution.

The solution’s tech support is good.

Positive

The deployment depends on the Exadata options. There are primarily three options which include, Exadata, Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Exadata Cloud Service. Out of these, Cloud Service requires the minimum effort. The deployment takes around two to three weeks to complete. For the deployment purpose, we need information on the user base where the access is going to happen. We would also require around four to five engineers and admins for the solution’s deployment and maintenance. This estimation is based on the workflow.

There are both monthly and yearly subscription options for the solution. The solution is expensive but it’s worth the cost of consolidating data. It is not a simple machine. However, a ten or fifteen percent discount can be good for customers.

I would rate the solution a ten out of ten. It is the best platform to consolidate data. You just need to pay for the number of codes that are required by your business.

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 reduce the licenses to English. Performance of the license process is better with the solution. 

Complete management occurs from one single address instead of different servers. 

License or upgrade management for the solution and other Oracle services can be difficult and time consuming because it requires login to a separate console. 

There can be some issues during implementation.

I have been using the solution for five years. 

The solution is very stable. The only calls we receive are for the card itself. 

The solution is scalable. Servers or storage can be added at any time. 

The setup is straightforward but there can be issues during implementation. 

Our company implements the solution for customers. Typically, two or three team members handle each implementation. 

It depends on the circumstances and requirements, but typical installations take two to three days. 

Our customers are always looking to reduce the license's cost. 

We always recommend the solution for our setups and a lot of workflows. The solution is rated an eight out of ten. 

Oracle Exadata is a flash disk, so my company's primary use case is achieving target performance on the database level.

What I like most about Oracle Exadata is its smart scan feature.

I also like that it supports higher capacities and it's high-performing, so my company can use Oracle Exadata for massive databases.

Oracle Exadata is one of the best products of Oracle, with the best engineering.

One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level.

Additional features I would like to see in Oracle Exadata in its next version include a cloud interface and GUI.

I have around one year of experience with Oracle Exadata, and I'm still working with it.

Oracle Exadata is a nine on a scale of one to ten, stability-wise.

Oracle Exadata scalability is a nine out of ten.

The initial setup for Oracle Exadata is straightforward and user-friendly because it has a great feature called OneCommand, which makes installation automated.

Both in-house and vendor teams implemented Oracle Exadata.

I'm giving Oracle Exadata five out of ten in terms of pricing. Its price could be lower.

Compared to other solutions, Oracle Exadata is more valuable because it has excellent features and it's a one-box solution.

I've worked with different versions of Oracle Exadata, such as X7, X8, and X9.

My customers use Oracle PCA (Private Cloud Appliance) for Oracle Exadata deployment. Banks use a private cloud, not a public cloud.

My company is a platinum partner of Oracle, with sixty to seventy customers using Oracle Exadata. In terms of maintenance, forty to fifty technical staff handle the maintenance for all customers.

My company is an Oracle vendor working with customers on implementation and deployment projects. The company is a reseller of Oracle Exadata.

I'm rating Oracle Exadata as eight out of ten.

You have to contact Oracle to make any changes and identify any issues. If you own the product, you may have to hire somebody who understands the product.

The performance could be improved.

This solution is deployed hybrid cloud.

There are a lot of performance-related issues that I have encountered with Oracle Exadata. You need someone with the expertise to make changes and recommend completing daily exercises for better performance.

It is a scalable solution, and I rate it an eight out of ten.

I have not contacted technical support before.

The setup requires proper security groups if you want to use it. I rate the setup an eight out of ten. Most of the users we've worked with use Oracle Exadata, but we've worked with major banks which prefer to own the solution for security purposes.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. Regarding advice, if you're scaling performance-wise or writing something on Oracle Exadata, you should understand how the performance works. You should also understand the cost of what the query is going to be and know the scalability.

I work as an Oracle Database Admin supporting databases. 

Oracle Exadata has very good hardware and provides fast, and high performance.

To use Oracle Exadata's Smart Scans and have it perform faster, I have to adapt the database, the statement, and the tables.

Checking the Smart Scan issues is complicated, particularly troubleshooting the infinity band and the storage sales performance. In future releases, I would like to see more troubleshooting tools.

I have 15 years of experience working with Oracle.

Oracle support is very bad, it is not good at all. They do not provide a solution in suitable time.

The initial setup of Oracle Exadata is difficult, particularly if you want to repair the discs. 

The pricing of Oracle Exadata is too high. 

I evaluated IBM, the 15, to compare it with Oracle Exadata. I compared the processes and the process structure.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I primarily use Exadata to handle the databases of critical applications.

Exadata's best features are its performance during redo logging and the elasticity of the database handling.

Exadata would be improved with single dashboard visibility.

I've been working with Exadata for six to seven years.

Exadata is stable.

Exadata is scalable.

The initial installation took around a week.

I would recommend Exadata to other users for its database management and would rate it eight out of ten.

We do use it in conjunction with Hadoop due to limitations. We have around 50 users supported by this solution. All sources of required data from various sources and systems are prepared in Oracle Exadata. We write down the SQL queries and take the required output from the Oracle Exadata database. Tableau is connected to the Oracle Exadata database and we complete all analysis, reports and visualization using Tableau. Overall, this is a good solution.

We have used this solution for a long period of time so it has become easy for us to query any kind of data from Oracle Exadata which has been valuable. 

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.

I have been using this solution for seven years.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. 

We use Oracle Exadata for Oracle databases.

I have been using Oracle Exadata for approximately five years.

Oracle Exadata is stable.

I have found Oracle Exadata to be scalable. However, you have to purchase more hardware, such as memory.

Everyone in the organization is using the solution in my organization.

The technical support is good, we have not had a problem.

The initial installation is not difficult, it took two to three days to complete.

We used an integrator for the implementation of Oracle Exadata. We have qualified integrators in Morocco.

We have a few engineers and administrators doing the maintenance and support of the solution.

You have to pay for the storage and the database in Oracle Exadata. It cost a lot, but it is worth it. It would be a benefit if we could reduce the price for the number of CPUs and extend the memory.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Oracle Exadata a ten out of ten.