Exasol vs. IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Exasol
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Exasol, from the company of the same name in Nuremberg, is presented by the vendor as a high-performance in-memory analytics database that aims to transform how organizations works with data, on-premises, in the cloud or both.N/A
IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Score 9.0 out of 10
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IBM now supplies a CDN via IBM Cloud, via their partnership with Akamai, the IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network.N/A
Pricing
ExasolIBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
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ExasolIBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
ExasolIBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
ExasolIBM Cloud Content Delivery Network
Likelihood to Recommend
Exasol
Exasol is suited to applications requiring fewer & larger queries (reporting/data analytics/business intelligence tools). Its per-query overhead makes it unsuitable as an operational database (those are optimized for many & smaller queries.)
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IBM
The IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network is well suited for web applications that have a distributed worldwide audience. Modern web sites load a lot of assets, such as javascript and css, that can be sped up significantly with it.
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Pros
Exasol
  • We have found Exasol to be very fast at summarizing large data sets. It has been a great backend for both reporting tools and data analytics/business intelligence. Combined with the fact that data import is also very fast it makes it ideal for a real-time ELT architecture.
  • Exasol is low maintenance. No indexes to maintain (The database auto-manages them) and very little tuning is required.
  • Query processing is optimized for high throughput and high parallelization. This means that even under high loads performance degrades gracefully as opposed to having "pile-ups" and "meltdowns". This has made it a very reliable database for us.
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IBM
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Cons
Exasol
  • Exasol doesn't have some of the advanced enterprise-y features found in some other large corporate database systems (e.g. native row-level and column-level security). However it's pretty customizable (SQL pre-processing, virtual schemas, powerful user-defined-function frameworks) so many of these features can be implemented manually.
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IBM
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Usability
Exasol
I gave it 9/10 instead of 10/10 only because it lacks in a few advanced enterprise features that require manual workarounds. Otherwise our users have had no problem getting up to speed with it (other than SQL syntax issues that are specific to it, but that's true of any DB)
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IBM
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Support Rating
Exasol
I have had only positive experiences with their support. They are fast, knowledgeable, and courteous. Online support requests get picked up within hours. I've only once had to use their hotline and that was for an emergency. There was even one minor non-security bug report that I reported and which they fixed in the following week's minor release. I was quite impressed.
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IBM
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Alternatives Considered
Exasol
We looked at some others too, but was 5 yrs ago so I don't recall the list. Exasol had the best performance per cost, outstanding performance, and was easy to evaluate. Even their community addition running on my laptop was faster than our existing reporting solution.
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IBM
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Return on Investment
Exasol
  • When we first migrated to Exasol (from a MySQL-backed reporting tool) our clients spent over an order of magnitude less time waiting on reports and since then it has opened up possibilities for reporting and analyzing data that were simply not possible beforehand.
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IBM
  • It has reduced load on our servers so we can reallocate server resources to our web app
  • IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network has sped up response times for our app and made customers happier
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