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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OCI

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A

    Oracle Exadata

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AOracle 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

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    OCIOracle Exadata
    Editions & Modules
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    Database Server
    $2.9032
    Per Unit
    Quarter Rack
    $14.5162
    Per Unit
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
    Chose OCI
    Microsoft Azure Cloud does not provide the native Oracle Database service with features like RAC, ASM Exadata, etc. Hence, we decided to use the Oracle Cloud for the database platform instead of Azure. Also, Microsoft and Azure came to an agreement to work together where Azure …
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    Oracle
    Chose Oracle Exadata
    We selected it just from a performance perspective, and that the ROI with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine is bigger than other machines. You can run with it for at least 5 years.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    119 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    111 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    117 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    104 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    7.9
    138 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Oracle Exadata
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    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.4133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.2122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates6.9122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools7.3133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.6120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support7.4132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.3134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.996 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Exadata
    8.9
    3 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.82 Ratings
    Data Modeling
    Comparison of Data Modeling features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Exadata
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Data model creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Exadata
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data Warehouse
    Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Exadata
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle Exadata
    9.3
    3 Ratings
    8% above category average
    High-Volume Data Processing00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Data Warehouse Management00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Administrative Automation00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Self-Optimization00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (150 ratings)
    10.0
    (24 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    OCIOracle Exadata
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    As per our usage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for almost 6 years hosting 500 + customers I can say its well suited application for any small scale to larger scale application as it can handle that capacity and provide more reliable cloud service only if you need any messaging service like pub/sub or sqs better to consider other services.
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    Oracle
    Oracle Exadata is well-suited for environments where massive performance for Oracle databases is required. Storage indexes reduce the unnecessary I/O. Smart Flash
    Cache accelerates random reads/writes.

    Our OLTP application demands very high concurrency. Multi-node Exadata provides high availability and zero downtime during DB patching. It comes with lots of built-in automations, so it reduces many routine tasks for sysadmins, like network, storage, and VM configuration, and it also reduces many Oracle DBA tasks, like Oracle software installation, patching, and upgrades.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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    Oracle
    • Oracle Database : Deliver industry-leading security, high availability and scalability with Oracle Database, which has been significantly enhanced to take advantage of the Oracle Exadata Storage Servers.
    • Exadata Smart Scan : Improve query performance by offloading intensive query processing and data mining scoring to scalable intelligent storage servers.
    • Smart Flash Cache : Transparently cache 'hot' read and write data to fast solid-state storage, improving query response times and throughput. Exadata systems use the latest PCI flash technology rather than flash disks. PCI flash delivers ultra-high performance by placing flash directly on the high speed PCI bus rather than behind slow disk controllers.
    • Hybrid Columnar Compression : Reduce the size of data warehousing tables by 10x, and archive tables by 50x, to improve performance and lower storage costs for primary, standby, and backup databases. Query high, query low, archive high and archive low.
    • Infiniband Network : Connect multiple Oracle Exadata Database Machines using the InfiniBand fabric to form a larger single system image configuration. Each InfiniBand link provides 40 Gigabits of bandwidth–many times higher than traditional storage or server networks.
    • Petabyte Scalability : Easily scale data warehouse to support enterprise data growth.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
    • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
    • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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    Oracle
    • The process of patching and upgrade of Exadata server components could be improved with a goal to minimize the overall effort, make it fully automated and transparent.
    • Improved guidelines and possibly more sophisticated tools for sizing of new Exadata servers for migration from old legacy hardware.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    Reliability: Very dependable and stable OCI services have been for the business operations.Performance: The speed and efficiency of OCI in meeting their computing and storage needs.Scalability: The ease and effectiveness of scaling resources up or down to accommodate changing demands.Security: The robustness and effectiveness of OCI's security features in protecting their data and applications.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Oracle
    The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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    Oracle
    I am comparing Exadata with the Oracle RAC database experience. In addition to Oracle RAC features, Exadata provides automatic performance optimization through Smart Scan and storage indexes. Deep integration with the Oracle ecosystem and tight coupling with Oracle Enterprise Manager
    for monitoring and management. Some downsides of Exadata are: a steep learning curve, concepts like cell offloading, IORM, and flash cache behavior aren’t intuitive initially. Operating
    Exadata requires specialized DBA skills.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Oracle
    From the start, I was surprised by response times and image quality accessing windows VMs with RDP. GCP, Azure and -many offerings in AWS- don't perform this speed. Also, that's evident in the quality of Infrastructure Management Team, because I just received one warning regarding a region failure, what confirms that's a mature platform.
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    Oracle
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    detailed and easy to understand.
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Very much satisifed with the Oracle Support team during the implementation and Migration of applications
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. Proper paperwork needs to be there. Docker has issues with performance on a number of platforms. On the other hand, OCI is easy to deploy and easy to understand.
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Oracle
    was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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    Oracle
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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    Oracle
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud helps us build and deploy apps quickly, getting our products out the door faster.
    • With real-time insights from Oracle Cloud, we can give customers personalized experiences that boost satisfaction.
    • Migrating to Oracle saves us cash on hardware and maintenance, which we can use for innovation and growth.
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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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    Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services