Item: Oracle Exadata
Rating: 10
Author: Pappi Reddy

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Exadata

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Oracle Exadata to consolidate our enterprise databases on single platform . It provides low latency , excellent performance for any kind of applications. Both OLTP and OLAP application databases were hosted . It provides high redundancy and very good fault tolerance

Pros and Cons

Pros

Low latency 10X performance
Various compression features
Flexible configuration based on needs
Smart Scan , Flash storage , Storage indexing

Cons

Too expensive
Integration with third party

Return on Investment

Pretty expensive
Best to consolidate all our databases in one machine
Most powerful machine

Usability

Excellent machine for your database needs . Don’t have to think twice if you have the budget to own it

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Exadata delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Exadata's feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Exadata live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Oracle Exadata go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Exadata again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Oracle Database, Oracle ZFS, NetApp StorageGRID, VMware vSphere

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for large scale enterprise databases which needs high performance . It may not be a great fit for small databases because of its cost factor. We need to be ready to accept the maintenance time as sometime it takes days to completely patch the machine and databases and cell servers . There is no downtime incurred

Oracle Exadata Feature Ratings

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Highly powerful engineered Machine