HPE ProLiant DL vs. Oracle Exadata

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
HPE ProLiant DL is a rack server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A
Oracle Exadata
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Exadata is an enterprise database platform that runs Oracle Database workloads of any scale and criticality with high performance, availability, and security. Exadata’s scale-out design employs optimizations that let transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads run faster. Consolidating diverse Oracle Database workloads on Exadata platforms in enterprise data centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and multicloud environments helps organizations increase…
$2.90
Per Unit
Pricing
HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Editions & Modules
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Database Server
$2.9032
Per Unit
Quarter Rack
$14.5162
Per Unit
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
HPE ProLiant DL
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Ratings
Oracle Exadata
10.0
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Data Warehouse
Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
HPE ProLiant DL
-
Ratings
Oracle Exadata
9.3
2 Ratings
19% above category average
High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Administrative Automation00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Self-Optimization00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Power servers
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
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Enterprises
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(14 ratings)
10.0
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(10 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE ProLiant DLOracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It's well suited for a VMWare Esxi cluster setup. You are guaranteed to have the same CPU chipset to ensure the servers on the cluster are compatible with each other. We've had to stagger the purchase of systems by six months and have had compatibility issues. It's also well suited for I/O such as MS SQL or Oracle databases, Exchange servers, domain controllers. Pretty much any server setup will work with no issues on the HPE Proliant DL line. It's less appropriate as a NAS server, we had purchased one that ran on Windows Storage. Since it was more or less running Windows as a single controller, we had issues where it has locked up and caused an outage.
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Oracle
  • 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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Pros
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Highly reliable. We've never had one go down unexpectedly in 11 years.
  • High performance. Current 380 G10s are configured with 1.5TB of RAM, always the shortest commodity in virtual environments.
  • Great manageability: iLO boards allow us to run headless without the Advanced license even.
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Oracle
  • High speed of SQL operations due to a unique design of Exadata with offloading of SQL processing to storage cells
  • Built-in High Availability of a DB server due to it's base architecture of a multi-node Oracle Real Application Cluster
  • High overall sever performance due to its use of a proprietary "Smart Cache" feature utilizing a high speed flash memory
  • Excellent scalability of a DB server by adding cluster nodes as well as expanding it into a network of serially connected clusters
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Cons
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • iLO Advanced - I feel like this is just a money grab. Give me the remote features, at least the remote console, with the purchase. I'd be OK with paying for the advanced license for more centralized functionality, but straight remote sessions? That should just be there.
  • Software entitlements and online interaction are a little wanting. This isn't the hardware per se, but enterprise products are often heavily tied to online services and tools and that could be a lot better.
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Oracle
  • Integrating with different types of databases can be a challenge
  • Having a hardware platform optimized to run specific database software surely comes with a price
  • Single vendor to support same hardware and software will make migrating to different hardware and/or software become a hassle
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Usability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
We have been using these servers for many years now and we have used different generations of this product line. We have never faced a catastrophic issue using these and even the smaller issues that we have faced have been dealt with by the technical support team of HP. They have been a reliable partner in our data center.
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Oracle
Excellent machine for your database needs . Don’t have to think twice if you have the budget to own it
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Support Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Overall, HPE support meets our requirements. They offer handy 24x7 phone support with clear case resolution interface. Engineers from HPE know their hardware and software. They are polite and help to find quick solutions for their customers. We don't need to prioritize our service requests to account managers to find how to fix or improve our service support.
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Oracle
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Alternatives Considered
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
I've used Dell poweredge servers and they were great too, but I found remotely deploying HPE hardware was significantly easier and faster. One thing I love about HPE is when i got to deploy an OS remotely via iLO I can utilize the virtual media URL as opposed to mounting an iso. these eliminates the SSL overhead and the OS can be deployed in under an hour. Mounting an ISO has proven reliable but due to the SSL overhead it can take hours. In addition i found im able to register my HPE hardware with HPE and they provide me a clean IT dashboard of all of my hardware and they give me alerts as to expiring support coverage, if a server is down or reporting an error. its a very solid and reliable solution all around.
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Oracle
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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Return on Investment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Allowed us to move forward with running web-based applications and to scale them as needed.
  • The lack of future driver support has made it difficult to consider upgrades, we may need to go with more expensive hardware in the future to be able to maintain upgrades.
  • While we have not realized all the business growth benefits we expected from this investment, we have had much more flexibility and options when we need to change our environment to meet the business needs.
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Oracle
  • 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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