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Oracle Exadata Scalability

Guruprasad Gonjare - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Cloud Architecture at LTIMINDTREE

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

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RP
SubDirector of Project Management at DISH

The on-premises versions of the solution are very difficult to work with, however, the next-generation cloud-based options are likely easier to expand as necessary.

We have about 800 concurrent users on the solution at any given time. It's a mid-sized company.

I'm not sure if we have plans to expand out own usage. It's a difficult time in Mexico, politically and also with COVID. We had plans to change some things last year, and they have since been pushed out. We're looking at different aspects of our entire system and we're reconsidering how it operates and if we should add partners or not.

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Arun Kumarasamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Exadata ,Senior Oracle DBA and Goldengate Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The product is very scalable. We have more than 1000 users in our organization.

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Jörg Bieri - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at OrcaNet GmbH

I give the scalability a ten out of ten.

My customer had 10,000 people on the box without any degradation.

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Ahmed-Yehia - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech lead at Linux Plus Information Systems

In Exadata, there are spine switches used for scalability. These switches allow the integration of a full rack to another full rack, enabling scalability. With these features, we can make a multi-rack setup to act as one appliance. I rate its scalability as nine.

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Anand_Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Oracle Exadata is good for transactional data within the limit of 50 terabytes. If your data is less than 50 terabytes, whether it is a small or large business, your data warehouse has to be around 35 terabytes, plus or minus, you can choose Oracle Exadata. Even with a full rack, and though Exadata X9 has come up, and you can keep increasing your storage, the reality is that memory, and other things are limited. If the solution's data is within 35 terabytes, and you want to tune and run analytics on transactional data, Exadata is a good solution. But you never hear of a company rejecting petabytes, so you have to think differently. It is for the warehouse I'm talking about, not the rate or big data, which are two different things.

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Robin Saikat Chatterjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Solutioning Technology and Architeture at Tata Consultancy Services

There are no issues at all except when the code we were working with was not scalable (procedural PL/SQL and cursors). In fact, the RAC worked very well and we saw near-linear scale-up, and the license costs were dramatically less than a conventional solution. We were also able to consolidate hundreds of databases on a single Exadata rack.

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FG
IT Architect at TIM

Oracle Exadata is a very scalable solution, and I'm rating it five out of five in terms of scalability.

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Rodion Bykadorov - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at SA Capital

Oracle Exadata is highly scalable. To scale the solution you contact Oracle for the scalability you want, they give you the details, and you set it up.

We have more than 100 people using this solution in my company.

We do not plan to increase our usage because here in Russia we have some restrictions and we will have to move on without it.

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CB
Senior Technical Director at AEM Corporation

The key for scalability is selecting the appropriate disk configuration and the proper size rack configuration. The two options are High Capacity and High Performance. If ever in doubt, always go with High Capacity. The performance difference is negligible at best, however having the extra space allows for more consolidation. That's the entire point of Exadata, to consolidate databases. We've added a few databases to the Exadata since we originally started to use the environment and there has been no performance impact. In our case, a Quarter rack was appropriate but for larger environments, this may not be enough.

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reviewer1395711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy CEO, CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

This new version of Oracle Exadata has improved scalability, which I find incredible. Its scalability is nine out of ten.

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AS
Enterprise Architect at TechnipEnergies

This solution is scalable.

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Humza BHatti - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Associate at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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it_user452334 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Principal Consultant at Pythian

If you buy a quarter rack, you feel like you need more computing power, you upgrade to a half rack. You go to a 3/4 or a full rack. It's basically I guess we used to call it plug and play except a lot of us found it in the olden days, it was plug and pray. I think they've got that one licked to the max.

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it_user521646 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - OSP/Engineered Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It absolutely scales to our customers’ needs. You can start with a two-node configuration, and you can go as high as eight racks, I believe, connected together with eight nodes, so you can scale up to 64. That number might have changed recently. You can scale it very well.

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it_user436020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Oracle Database Administrator at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It's scaled to our needs.

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Semih Erakay - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of e-Transformation Services at VBT Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş.

I give the scalability of Oracle Exadata an eight out of ten.

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DP
Data Center Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

To scale up with Oracle we have to purchase new infrastructure. I give the scalability a six out of ten.

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reviewer602496 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Until now, we did not scale.

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it_user521928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

From time to time, we scale capacity up and out. In system engineering terms, we can scale up to limit. The kind of features we just set it up, I've been able to fit my requirements into that.

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it_user396558 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Lead - Infrastructure Design Database at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

You should start with a small footprint (for example, a quarter-rack Exadata) and then grow to a full-rack or even multi-rack Exadata. The only challenge is that by the time you need to expand, the Exadata generation may have evolved (every one to two years, so far). You may end up with a full-rack of Exadata that contains multiple generations, each with a different CPU, memory, and disk capacity. This may not be a big problem, but you have to come up with a strategy to distribute the workload.

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it_user238071 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Global Database Architect at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No; scalability has been pretty awesome.

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BJ
IT Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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

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TI
Department Unified Communication Head at Mana

Exadata is scalable.

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Vedat Gunes - PeerSpot reviewer
BI & Analytics Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle Exadata is scalable.

We have data engineers and data scientists using this platform, and in my team, there are 25 of them, and all of them are using this platform.

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Adriano-Simao - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

There are many models of this engineering system, starting from X2 in 2011 to the last version X8M, you can choose a quarter, half and full, depending on your workload and budget. Starting with the quarter size you can scale it by adding more servers and storage until Full version or adding another box.

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it_user515301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Nope not yet but we might have plans to move it to Cloud. we are not really sure. We have our own data center and we never had any problems with Scalability

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it_user517617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, memory limitations, 756gb limits the performance of databases.

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it_user247236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and President at Viscosity North America

With the Exadata, if I see an issue with scalability, it is typically goes back to being a sizing issue. The real question I have to ask is: did you get the right Exadata configuration for your database(s). If your Exadata configuration is sized properly, you should not have scalability issues.

If you let every database see every CPU on the Exadata compute node, you can potentially run into scalability issues. Customers who do not take advantage of database resource manager or IO Resource Manager (IORM) often run into performance issues in a consolidated environment. Likewise, if a customer tries to over-parallelize their application code, it can cause scalability issues. We tend to see more issues with improper management of parallel execution on the Exadata because it is perceived as something you can throw anything at.

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TS
Partner at Tsp Teknoloji Danışmanlık A.Ş.

We must pay more money if we need more storage. I rate the product’s scalability a ten out of ten. The tool is suitable for enterprises and SMBs.

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MF
Tech Lead at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oracle Exadata scalability is a nine out of ten.

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AM
GIO IT Infra Build Er. DBA at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The scale is somewhat limited. The existing axis can only have four blades.  So, there are limitations. The storage is around 200TB to 400TB, which is not infinite storage.

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EA
Sr. Director, Systems & Databases at Gtech

We have not had any scalability issues. Oracle Real Application Clusters on Extended Distance Clusters is not supported with Exadata. So, basically, it is not supported to build RAC extended clusters on multiple Exadata machines. The good news is that RAC extended clusters will probably be supported with Exadata in Oracle Database 12.2 (12CR2). It is not certain yet, but it is expected, so we will see.

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it_user403353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DBA and Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no major problems so far with scalability.

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it_user259974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have added more memory and additional storage arrays, and adding more memory is very easy, while adding a storage array takes some time, but it is not as complicated as I expected. We will be expanding our local file system soon not sure how complex this will be. Adding ZFS is fairly straightforward and has become easier since I first did it three years ago.

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

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.

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IB
Head of Data Value at Innova-tsn

We have about 100 people using the product currently.

Our clients are quite sizeable companies.

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it_user521637 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence and Data Integration Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

We’ve had experience scaling it. We started out originally with an X2, the second release of Exadata. A year ago, we expanded that with the new X5. We were able to take our existing procurement and expand it with newer hardware too.

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SH
Specialist, Database & Hadoop Administration at Robi Axiata Limited

I would rate the tool's scalability an eight out of ten. Certain companies in my organization use the solution like the marketing, IT, and analytics departments. 

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it_user521661 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It is absolutely scalable. We have five enterprise applications of our own. They're all public-facing systems. Going back to the performance, on any given day, anywhere between 5,000-8,000 internal people use it, and we do have a public-facing system. People apply for benefits, and it's entirely public, so they can use it. Compared to our previous system, if you look at the performance metrics, some of them show almost 30-40% improvement. Some of the batches are almost 70% improvement.

If you look at the backend side – logical export backups, RMANs, and disaster recovery; all of those things – there is a tremendous increase.

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reviewer1467993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

If needed you can scale it up. In terms of CPU and memory, we increased the memory and CPUs to accomplish this. You are limited from the hardware you have, increasing the performance of your hardware allows for increased scalability.

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it_user521913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is a scalable solution. I think it's going to meet the company's needs moving forward, without problems.

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SU
Master Consultant - RedHat & Oracle Cloud, Virtualization , Automation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Oracle Exadata is very scalable.

When one of our customers such as a bank employs one or more Exadata machines to handle database work, it means that the whole bank could be using it.

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it_user515445 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager

We had no scalability issues.

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GO
Data Quality Software Development Manager at Yapı Kredi Bank

This product is scalable. We first started with the quarter rack, and then we expanded to the full rack.

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it_user419178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Enterprise Database Admin at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)

It has the best scalability of all our Oracle products.

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reviewer1395711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy CEO, CIO at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable. 

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SH
CTO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This solution offers the flexibility to add more servers, storage servers, or a combination of both.

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Javid Ur Rahaman - PeerSpot reviewer
VP, Infrastructure,Data Management Services & AI Evangelist at a tech company with 51-200 employees

We've had no issues scaling it for our needs.

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Adriano-Simao - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Triana Business Solutions Lda

The strategy of the company was not to pay a lot, because we don't have much money. So we began with the scalability approach. We bought enough resources to sustain the demands of all our clients.

If the demands increase, we can also increase the resources and close off the cabinets. We can scale this machine anytime that we need. We can go until the version that they allowed for scalability. Then, if you need to maintain this technology, you can scale out and have two machines working together side by side.

This is a database machine. We have a system that hosts more than 20,000 citizens. So most of the time we have more than 3,000 transactions per day. As a service company for the government, every database resource is on this machine. We have at least three or four databases running on this machine and we have many applications that are running through this machine as well, so it serves all the countries.

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it_user521562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Administrator

We have a half rack now. If we at all feel like we need more compute, we can definitely add on more racks. So scalability, definitely a yes.

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it_user515163 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Programmer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no issues with scalability.

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it_user522234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is a little bit difficult, actually. A lot of people advertise it as being easy, but what happens is: when you have a previous version and you want to scale that version, they're already into a new version. It's almost better just to buy the new X6 instead of trying to expand your X3. If you want to do scalability, you have to do it immediately within a year; you can't wait.

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TK
cloud security and DevSecOps Apecialist at Join Cloud Ltd.

It can effectively handle a large number of users, making it a robust and scalable solution.

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it_user521760 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Architect at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

In my eyes, it is going to meet the company's needs moving forward.

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JS
Database Infrastructure Cloud Architect-Oracle,AWS Migration,Upgardes(Cassandra,Postgres,Hadoop BI) at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We didn’t have scalability issues.

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it_user419811 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator & technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There have been no issues scaling it for our needs.

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it_user275232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We find X5 to be very scalable.

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reviewer1620885 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President & Head of IT Governance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution offers excellent scalability. It's one of its great selling features. We never have to worry about it not having enough capacity for our needs.

Currently, we have about 8,000 end-users on this product.

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it_user240024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No. It is quite simple to extend the configurations if needed, more databases can easily be added. With Exadata less memory is needed so we see clients running even close to 100 databases on a small 1/8th frame. With large databases, clients can sometimes run out of storage, but additional storage can easily be added with the help of storage expansion racks.

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it_user521697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

It depends on each case, your use and the company. For us, it is scalable and working for our use.

For me, what we have right now is scalable and it is serving our purpose.

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it_user521958 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Data Warehouse Development | Business Intelligence at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable, very much so. It will absolutely meet the company's needs going forward.

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it_user521757 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO Group Services at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No problems with scalability.

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it_user457482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

We used to perform upgrades of Exadata from quarter to half in order to increase CPU/storage capacity. When Exadata hardware is too old (for example, if you want to upgrade from Exadata X3-2 quarter to half, adding x6-2 hardware), you should evaluate the possibility of installing a new Exadata and using Oracle Data Guard to move Oracle Databases.

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it_user452355 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Consultant at Viscosity

It's a product which Oracle has built with scalability in mind. You can have Exadata hooked up with another Exadata. You have a really high bandwidth network, they call it Infiniband. So you can extend it horizontally as much as you want. So there's a huge, huge opportunity to upscale it and Exadata itself comes in two different flavors, like quarter rack, half rack, full rack. So you can choose and pick, based on your need of the scalability and the future need of how your workload and other things are going to be in future.

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it_user259971 - PeerSpot reviewer
ITA - Oracle Apps DBA at Tata Consultancy Services

I would say it's the best solution in terms of scalability.

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SP
Technical Director at Wissen infotech

We have 150 people using this solution.

The solution is not scalable because it is on-premise.

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MR
Solution Sales Specialist at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability of the solution is quite good.

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RB
IT Consultant at Trend Import-Export

You can scale the solution. You can configure it how you like and buy more cells or nodes to add to it. 

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PX
Sales Manager at LTA-RH Informatica

I think the scalability is good, but it can be even better. With the newer editions of Exadata, they are changing some features to meet the needs of growth and scalability, like access to additional disks in the storage environment, and they've upped the memory, too. But I don't think it was central, or essential, to the Exadata offering at first.

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MF
Tech Lead at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It is a very scalable environment.

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it_user296958 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

There were no problems with scalability at all.

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it_user521763 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DBA at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It scales well for our needs.

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it_user521592 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability is good.

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it_user522177 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For as far as we've gotten with it, it has scaled to our needs; so far so good.

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it_user247422 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO/Architect at Viscosity North America

It's been fantastic. With all the additional flash, with the faster CPUs, the faster disks, it's really come a long ways. The introduction of the X6 is also going to be an interesting avenue.

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it_user395682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle DBA - RAC and Exadata at a tech services company

We've had no problems with scalability.

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it_user521898 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Oracle DBA at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't think it's so scalable because Exadata is a box. You can't do anything with this. It's a box, use it, that's all.

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it_user521679 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director Technical Services at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has scaled well.

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it_user517464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues so far.

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it_user521679 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Director Technical Services at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has scaled well to your needs.

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KK
Exadata Certified and Oracle Certified DBA Consultant at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

There were no scalability issues. In fact, scalability is one of its prime features, it is very flexible.

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it_user522231 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

So far, we don't have a big problem with scaling because we are happy with two node clusters. When we really need to expand, then we will need to cross that bridge when we come to it.

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it_user521985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are still moving. So far it is satisfactory, although we are not getting our work locked under.

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it_user436146 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

If it's done with the right specs in mind, it seems to scale pretty well. We haven't really had any scalability issues.

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VS
Systems Engineer at Informatics (Private) Limited

Oracle Exadata is highly scalable. You can increase the network and everything works well.

We have approximately 10 clients using the solution in the finance sector.

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it_user522228 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not been playing with the scalability, but I know they can scale pretty high. Especially I know they use it within their own MiniCluster product, and a lot of their appliances. I have no doubt it can scale.

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RS
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
it_user521595 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Oracle Database Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Well, they give you a box. We haven't come to a case where we need to add more servers or nodes to it. For the moment, what we have is what we're using and it's doing what it's supposed to do.

Our main issue is the CPU; they can't cope with what we want. The application is CPU-bound. They have to find a way, talk to Intel, design something, so it's fast, so it can provide more CPU, more bang for the buck. It's expensive.

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it_user448662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had some challenges on scalability. That time the only choice we had was to upgrade to a full rack from a ½ rack. However the newer version of Oracle Exadata has flexibility to upgrade. It can add database servers or storage servers not require to add ¼ or ½ racks.

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it_user259683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user242436 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Principal Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Have worked on expanding racks with multi-generation racks, the promise of start small and grow over time is delivered fairly effortlessly.

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it_user521775 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Lead PeopleSoft FIN at a religious institution with 1,001-5,000 employees

I work with the PeopleSoft systems on the databases and it's doing just fine. I don't have to scale out.

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it_user522213 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a religious institution with 51-200 employees

The product is scalable.

In my management, I have no say as what to buy. I'm just doing the work. They keep buying it, so we have to keep supporting it.

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it_user521874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Performance Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable, given the way you can add more and more Exadata to your configuration, but it gets expensive. However, I'm not the right person to comment on whether it provides enough value for the money.

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it_user448296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Development Leader at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues either.

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it_user521901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Section Of DB Ms Support And Deployment at Sportmaster

We can extend the data without any trouble, just put something new in and go on. That's great. There's no problem of that kind with this solution, for us.

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it_user515226 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user521970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Unix/Linux Platform Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is an absolutely scalable solution.

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it_user521541 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

This product does not scale like we want it to.

There is another company that we use for this purpose and it does a much better job.

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it_user693849 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA - Oracle Exadata at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

No, it scaled linearly as claimed by Oracle pre sales.

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it_user521580 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Principal Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

We have had no issues with scalability.

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it_user177636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst ( Senior Oracle DBA) at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's been able to scale for our needs.

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it_user270906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user701433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Oracle RAC / Exadata Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user687189 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder/CTO/Chief Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

No, this is one issue we didn’t encounter. We decided on the appropriate
Exadata configuration and we deployed and consolidated. Moreover, Exadata
has Elastic configurations as well. Nevertheless, there are some internal
areas where the admins need to set and rationalize perception. Some SQL
is poorly written and even Exadata can’t fix that. The perception is that
Exadata is a single “red” pill to cure bad code, that’s just not the case.

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it_user521853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at Qualys

We had an issue where we had to increase the storage and we got the new cells from Oracle. Then we scaled outward.

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it_user406893 - PeerSpot reviewer
PL/SQL Developer at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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AS
Enterprise architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

I have found the solution to be scalable.

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it_user259878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer with 501-1,000 employees

Oracle support provided the necessary information to scale the system.

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reviewer1031826 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analytics Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Exadata is scalable.

Our clients are mostly small to medium-sized companies.

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principa447546 - PeerSpot reviewer
President of the Board at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is really tough because it's scalable as much as an appliance is scalable. If you want to scale it, you need to add an appliance itself. You can buy one-eighth of a rack, one-quarter, one-half of rack. If you still want to extend capacity, you need to buy another module that is another eighth or quarter or half and you need to install it into a rack. It's quite complex. This is one of the reasons why appliances are not that popular anymore because modern databases are on hardware and you just put on another server, another node. It's quite expensive, compared to the commodity hardware.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle Exadata
December 2024
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