IBM LinuxONE vs. Oracle Exadata

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM LinuxONE
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.N/A
Oracle Exadata
Score 9.9 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
IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Database Server
$2.9032
Per Unit
Quarter Rack
$14.5162
Per Unit
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIndividual pricing on request
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IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Features
IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
IBM LinuxONE
-
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
IBM LinuxONE
-
Ratings
Oracle Exadata
9.3
2 Ratings
18% 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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User Ratings
IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
10.0
(23 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM LinuxONEOracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective.
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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
IBM
  • Valuable insights from the reports
  • Scalable
  • Easy to manage different data centers
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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
IBM
  • We had some milestones we did not meet due to technical issues, we had to get those escalated and finally got them resolved.
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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
IBM
No answers on this topic
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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Alternatives Considered
IBM
LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics.
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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
IBM
  • Pulling of multiple and big data from different channels.
  • Project workflow management is effective via the tool.
  • Project data processing and data management.
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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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