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- Azure Blob Storage is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
Azure Blob Storage
88%
9 Ratings
8.0
Oracle Data Warehouse
80%
12 Ratings
Support Rating
9.0
Azure Blob Storage
90%
6 Ratings
Oracle Data Warehouse
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage is well suited for cases where you are working with different data formats and looking for cost-effective storage solutions based on access frequency. Another area of strength is the encryption of data at rest, and encryption can be managed on your own. However, it may not be appropriate for transferring large data very fast.

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Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
Including other products, Oracle is very specialized in business support. Choosing Oracle Data Warehouse would be a safe choice for an enterprise-level company (more than a thousand employees). Healthcare organizations may want to consider Oracle, as they are typically conservative with privacy and security issues with patient data. Although cloud-based systems are widely being adopted in the healthcare industry (such as population research or genomics), core data sets (such as patients' sensitive medical records) may be better stored with a home-grown data center and warehouse solution.

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Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Azure Blob Storage
- Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API.
- Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions.
- Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console.

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Consultant in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
- Able to handle very large data sizes efficiently from a performance, high availability and manageability perspective. This is accomplished through the Oracle Partitioning functionality. Partitioning allows large segments (tables, IOT index-organized tables, indexes) to be broken into smaller segments at the physical layer but treated as a whole at the logical layer.
- Provides support for dual-format architecture through Oracle In-Memory functionality. Without any change to application code one can obtain in-memory performance. This functionality enables us to have the tables represented in both the row format and the column format using in-memory format. This is a huge boost for BI/analytic queries since the Oracle optimizer is able to intelligently choose the appropriate format.
- Provision to materialize a subset of table data or table joins. This is through materialized views and the optimizer will rewrite the query against the base tables to make use of this materialized view. This provides a huge performance boost and is critical in VLDBs as in a data warehouse. The query rewrite is fully transparent to users.
- Provides multiple compression capabilities. This is very useful not only for deducing the storage foot print but as well as increase performance at different layers of the infrastructure including query performance. The compression functionality can be applied against both structured and unstructured data.
- With the advent of Engineered Systems (Exadata, Database Machine, SuperCluster) there are specific features and functionalities that can further boost the Oracle data warehouse. These are related to consolidation, Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, EHCC (Exadata hybrid columnar compression) and much more.
- RAC - Real Application Clusters (with 2 or more nodes) provides functionality for high availability, performance and scaling as the work load increases. The parallelism is provided both within a node and as well as across nodes. If for any reason a node goes down the data warehouse is still available through other nodes and the running queries are transparently failed over to the surviving nodes.
Senior DBA and Architect
CMA Consulting ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cons
Azure Blob Storage
- Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us.
- Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing.

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Manager in Information Technology
Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
- Customer support isn't the best out there. We usually have to wait about an hour to get some form of assistance.
- Pricing is a bit higher than many of its competitors such as AWS Redshift.
- Tweaking features requires dedicated staff. Software is fairly advanced. Would be difficult to use for newcomers.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesPricing Details
Azure Blob Storage
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.0,081 per GB/per month
Azure Blob Storage Editions & Modules
Edition
Block Blobs | $0.00811 |
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Azure Data Lake Storage | $0.00811 |
Managed Discs | $1.542 |
Files | $0.0583 |
- per GB/per month
- per month
- per GB/per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Oracle Data Warehouse
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Oracle Data Warehouse Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Support Rating
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage 9.0
Based on 6 answers
Documentation sometimes appears to be out of date or not fully documented properly with new releases. It is like documentation comes out for a specific version and is quickly out of date. Another issue is documentation is scarce on new releases and only seems to get properly updated (and sometimes is still wrong) once enough people hit the forums to complain.

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Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Azure Blob Storage
We are affiliated with Azure so Azure Storage is our only choice but I have worked with other storage resources of Azure like Azure Data Lake Storage. Both are good and robust storage resource but they differ in the application that they do best

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Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employeesOracle Data Warehouse
Oracle is, in my opinion, the top dog in this space. I feel like the other vendors are playing catch-up to where Oracle is right now. It is also likely the most expensive option out there.

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Employee in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesReturn on Investment
Azure Blob Storage
- Allowed us to store files more cheaply than on-prem.
- Allowed us to store files securely.
- Allowed us to transport files with HTTPS easily.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
- Very cost effective for large databases.
- Very fast results on simple queries.
- Analytical functionalities are of wide range, which makes it very cost effective.
- For smaller businesses, it might be a great asset.
- Some features are supposed to be bought separately, so one needs to consider this before licensing with Oracle DW.
Data Analyst
The University of Texas at ArlingtonElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees