Oracle Exadata vs. Teradata Vantage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Teradata Vantage
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Teradata Vantage is presented as a modern analytics cloud platform that unifies everything—data lakes, data warehouses, analytics, and new data sources and types. Supports hybrid multi-cloud environments and priced for flexibility, Vantage delivers unlimited intelligence to build the future of business. Users can deploy Vantage on public clouds (such as AWS, Azure, and GCP), hybrid multi-cloud environments, on-premises with Teradata IntelliFlex, or on commodity hardware with VMware.
$4,800
per month
Pricing
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
Editions & Modules
Database Server
$2.9032
Per Unit
Quarter Rack
$14.5162
Per Unit
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
from $4800
per month
Teradata VantageCloud Enterprise
from $9000
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
Considered Both Products
Oracle Exadata
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 …
Teradata Vantage
Chose Teradata Vantage
Oracle Exadata is an excellent product. Performs mass data processing with similar capability compared to Teradata. Some features Exadata has lack for Teradata Vantage, such as archive generation, consistent reading and writing (simultaneously), RMAN backing up online …
Chose Teradata Vantage
Performance of Teradata was fasr superior
Chose Teradata Vantage
We did not really evaluate various cloud offerings and opted for on-premise database platform. Compared to Oracle and SQL Server, Teradata fared well with respect to performance
Features
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
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
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Warehouse
Comparison of Data Warehouse features of Product A and Product B
Oracle Exadata
9.3
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Teradata Vantage
-
Ratings
High-Volume Data Processing10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Warehouse Management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Administrative Automation7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Optimization10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(23 ratings)
9.4
(62 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(6 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(30 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle ExadataTeradata Vantage
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%.
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Teradata
Teradata Vantage is well suited for large scale ETL pipelines like the ones we developed for anti money laundering risk matrices. It handles heavy joins, aggregations, and transformations on transactional data efficiently. We generate alert variables, adjust for inflation, and monitor establishments monthly with it, all integrated with Python and Control-M for a centralised automation across the company. For less appropriate, I would say that heavy resource demands might slow down experimentation for iterative work.
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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
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Teradata
  • ETL (Extract - Transfor - Load)
  • NOS to send data from Teradata Vantage to S3 and from S3 to Teradata Vantage
  • Teradata GeoSpacial feature
  • Bulk reading and writing in huge tables
  • MPP capacity already mature
  • Temporal Capacity more mature that other solutions
  • TASM
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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
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Teradata
  • Teradata is an excellent option but only for a massive amount of data warehousing or analysis. If your data is not that big then it could be a misfit for your company and cost you a lot. The cost associated is quite extensive as compared to some other alternative RDBMS systems available in the market.
  • Migration of data from Teradata to some other RDBMS systems is quite painful as the transition is not that smooth and you need to follow many steps and even if one of them fails. You need to start from the beginning almost.
  • Last but not least the UI is pretty outdated and needs a revamp. Though it is simple, it needs to be presented in a much better way and more advanced options need to bee presented on the front page itself.
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Likelihood to Renew
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Teradata
Teradata is a mature RDBMS system that expands its functionality towards the current cloud capabilities like object storage and flexible compute scale.
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Usability
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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Teradata
Teradata Vantage allows us to create a scalable infrastructure to support our strategic initiatives. The dedicated compute power ensures reliable performance with isolated workloads and dedicated resources, optimizing workflows for faster, more efficient data transfers. The compute clusters support ETL processes and OSF’s developers and data science team with the flexibility to create self-service analytics, to spin up/down at any time, driving better performance and minimizing costs.
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Support Rating
Oracle
No answers on this topic
Teradata
We have meetings at the beginning with the technical team to explain our requirements to them and they were really putting in a lot of effort to come up with a solution which will address all our needs. They implemented the software and also trained a few of our resources on the same too. We can get in touch with them now as well whenever we run into a roadblock but it's very less now.
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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.
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Teradata
Teradata is way ahead of its competitor because of its unique features of ensuring data privacy and data never gets corrupted even in worst case scenario. In most cases, the data corruption is a major issue if left unused and it leads to important data being wiped off which in ideal case should be stored for 3 years
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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.
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Teradata
  • Moving to Teradata in the Cloud-enabled a level of agility that previously didn't exist in the organization. It also enabled a level of analytic competency that was not achievable using other options on the aggressive timeline that was required. We didn't want to settle for reinventing a wheel when we had a super tuned performance capable beast readily available in Teradata. Teradata lets us focus on our business rather than spending money and effort trying to design software or database foundations features on an open source or lower performance platform.
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ScreenShots

Teradata Vantage Screenshots

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