Oracle Exadata

Oracle Exadata

Oracle Exadata

201 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

Oracle Exadata

Editions & Modules

Database Server: $2.9032
Per Unit
Quarter Rack: $14.5162
Per Unit

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Oracle Exadata
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Oracle Exadata
Considered Both Products	Oracle Exadata Verified User Retiree Chose Oracle Exadata A unique architecture of Oracle Exadata machine which consists of several components: compute, storage cells with offloaded SQL processing within the cell, smart cache. In addition it is an Oracle RAC server with high speed interconnect between its built-in nodes. Incentivized Helpful? Andrea McConnell Marketing Automation Specialist Chose Oracle Exadata Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service allocates built-in cloud automation and enhances enterprise-class business continuity by enhancing zero downtime maintenance which is contrary to other alternatives such as Apache Hive. Incentivized Helpful? Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer Chose Oracle Exadata 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 … Incentivized Helpful? MS Maurice Samuels DBA Chose Oracle Exadata IBM AIX and HP-UX implementations of Oracle database solutions have a lot of performance issues. Both do not provide as much robust configuration customization as Exadata. Hardware support is limited. There is generally a long delay between hardware update being certified with … Incentivized Helpful? Habeeb Akbar Sr. Product Manager/Consultant for Software Technologies and Infrastructure Chose Oracle Exadata No. we have not used any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Oracle Exadata IBM POWER System is a general purpose hardware optimize to runs various software with high-performance resource intensive operations. On the other hand, Oracle Exadata Database Machine is specifically engineered to run Oracle Database software efficiently, this combination of … Incentivized Helpful? Jon Shale Sr. Mgr., Engineering & Operations Chose Oracle Exadata For high performance, highly available, critical applications running on Oracle databases, there is no alternative. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Oracle Exadata We have done a proof of concept for both and have seen a lift with our batch processing and all other aspects with Oracle Exadata. Oracle Exadata storage servers have been playing a key role with the overall success compared to other products. Incentivized Helpful? Olivier Ameryckx Oliva G. BDM / Specialized Account Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Oracle Exadata For large-scale reporting and ETL needs, Oracle has been more responsive and allowed for easier integration with 3rd party vendors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Oracle Exadata I do not think there is any alternative for Exadata. Flash storage or SSD can not solve the IO bottleneck issues the way Exadata handles the IO subsystem. Incentivized Helpful? Gurcan Orhan Data WareHouse Architect Chose Oracle Exadata We had already chosen Oracle Exadata, so we didn't compare this solution with other products. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Oracle Exadata Have not used an alternative to Oracle Exadata Database Machine to compare to. Incentivized Helpful? VS Veera Sadayappan OBIEE Consultant Chose Oracle Exadata Key was performance. It's Oracle on steroids. Incentivized Helpful? Bert Scalzo Senior Product Manager Chose Oracle Exadata Exadata beats the competition because the smart scan and offloading technology is more about software than hardware, so you cannot just buy a beefy server and add flash disks to compete. The Exadata software is what makes it special. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Oracle Exadata

Access Control and Security

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Exadata 10.0 2 Ratings 13% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)	10.02 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	10.02 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	10.01 Ratings

Data Warehouse

Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
	Oracle Exadata 9.3 2 Ratings 18% above category average
High-Volume Data Processing	10.02 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management	10.02 Ratings
Administrative Automation	7.02 Ratings
Self-Optimization	10.02 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Oracle Exadata
Small Businesses	Google BigQuery Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Oracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (23 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle Exadata
Likelihood to Recommend	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%. Incentivized Gurcan Orhan Data WareHouse Architect Read full review
Pros	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Oracle Excellent machine for your database needs . Don’t have to think twice if you have the budget to own it Incentivized Pappi Reddy Senior Database Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Gene Baker Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Habeeb Akbar Sr. Product Manager/Consultant for Software Technologies and Infrastructure Read full review
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