Databricks Lakehouse Platform vs Oracle Exadata

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a managed big data megastore, which has native integration with highly optimized Apache Spark Engine and native integration with MLflow, go for Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform is a breeze to use and analytics capabilities are supported out of the box. You will find it a bit difficult to manage code in notebooks but you will get used to it soon.

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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First, get the database on Oracle. If you are in an Oracle stack, it would be much better to use the Oracle products. If you are driving a Ferrari, you wouldn’t put a Mercedes engine in it. If you are writing a query, you cannot rely on other brands. Since I'm an architect, when I look for a product, I look for performance.
The installation is easy because it comes out-of-the-box and you just start using it.
Previous to Oracle Exadata, we were using a normal Oracle RAC service. We were just waiting for this product to come out.
I'm currently writing a data warehouse on Exadata. Before this solution, we were aiming for this to be completed by 8 a.m., when our ETLs would finish. With the help of Exadata's special features, this was reduced to 3 a.m. This solution allows us to bring more data within the same time period. It provides us with more subject areas that provide more reports to our users. Our ETL times reduced to 65%, then to 50%.

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Gurcan Orhan

Data WareHouse Architect

Ekol LogisticsTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Process raw data in One Lake (S3) env to relational tables and views
Share notebooks with our business analysts so that they can use the queries and generate value out of the data
Try out PySpark and Spark SQL queries on raw data before using them in our Spark jobs
Modern day ETL operations made easy using Databricks. Provide access mechanism for different set of customers

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Customize-able for specific functionality optimized for combination of online transaction or analytical processing.
Ability to serve mix workloads with resource management feature enables prioritizing allocation for certain workload.
Scale-able on-premise with compatibility for cloud deployment offers flexible solution for organization considering to transition from on-premise solution.

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Professional in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Better Localized Testing
When they were primarily OSS Spark; it was easier to test/manage releases versus the newer DB Runtime. Wish there was more configuration in Runtime less pick a version.
Graphing Support went non-existent; when it was one of their compelling general engine.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Patching can often become quite involved and convoluted. It should be more transparent and straightforward.
Storage metrics can be difficult and time consuming to obtain.
Basic administrative functions can be hard to repair when discovered.
Vendor support can take a while to obtain. Generally several attempts are necessary to reach the right area of vendor expertise.

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Maurice Samuels

DBA

Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0.07 Per DBU

Databricks Lakehouse Platform Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	$0.07¹
Premium	$0.10¹
Enterprise	$0.13¹

Per DBU

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$2.9,032 Per Unit

Oracle Exadata Editions & Modules

Edition

Quarter Rack	$14.5162¹
Database Server	$2.9032¹

Per Unit

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Usability

Databricks Lakehouse Platform 9.0

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Because it is an amazing platform for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, as well as it allows to share the information and insights across the company with their shared workspaces, while keeping it secured.

in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX

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Verified User

Manager in Product Management

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Databricks Lakehouse Platform 7.5

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One of the best customer and technology support that I have ever experienced in my career. You pay for what you get and you get the Rolls Royce. It reminds me of the customer support of SAS in the 2000s when the tools were reaching some limits and their engineer wanted to know more about what we were doing, long before "data science" was even a name. Databricks truly embraces the partnership with their customer and help them on any given challenge.

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Databricks has a much better edge than Synapse in hundred different ways. Databricks has Photon engine, faster available release in cloud and databricks does not run on Open source spark version so better optimization, better performance and better agility and all kind of performance boost can be achieved in Databricks rather Open source synapse spark

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Director in Information Technology

Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees

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Oracle Exadata Database Machine had the best performance overall hands down. It clearly beat the competition and we were seeing 1000X improvement on SAP HANA. Oracle Exadata Database Machine beat that without us refactoring our code. To achieve that in HANA, we had to refactor the code somewhat. Now this was for our limited POC of 5 use cases. Given the large number of stored procedures we had in Sybase, we need to capture more production metrics but we are seeing incredible performance.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Contract Terms and Pricing Model

Databricks Lakehouse Platform 8.0

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The problem with this tool and all other ones that are at the top of the industry, it's so expensive that soon as another one will be on the market and deliver the same or different value, it will be catastrophic for them. So you get the fact that they are cashing every dime right now like SAS or Hadoop once did. Now, look at them

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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Professional Services

Databricks Lakehouse Platform 10.0

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Again, another level of professional services, this is not their biggest strength but this is the cherry on top. I couldn't think about any other professional services like this one. Now I'm talking about meaningful services that really help out our project and delivery.

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Machine learning is a very new concept and not many universities offer to teach it. My school and a few others have been utilizing Databricks as one of the tools to teach and learn machine learning. By doing this, my university is creating a strong future workforce for the job market.

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Ann Le

Freelance Translator

ZOO Digital Group plcEntertainment, 501-1000 employees

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Single support from a single vendor with both machine and database from Oracle, which is costing us less.
With Exadata, we need less technical manpower and less technical support. A business transaction with the integrated and centralized database helps us focus on other business needs.
We don't need to buy additional licenses and Hardware for the next 3 to 5 years.

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Habeeb Akbar

Sr. Product Manager/Consultant for Software Technologies and Infrastructure

Jeraisy Computer & Comm. ServicesComputer & Network Security, 5001-10,000 employees

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