Oracle Exadata has allowed us to run our mission critcial applications with an exceptionally high level of performance and stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patching is complicated but greatly enhanced with Platinum and ACS services (ACS especially for SAP environments). Have seen some gaps with Platinum DB patching over the years but they are still appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fantastic machine , hardware and software all engineered to make your workload faster.

If you manage to optimize your query to use smart scans then its the best but you dont escape from testing and good well trained DBA team in-house. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle licencing is a nightmare , noone can understand what you can use and what you cant.

Dealing with Oracle as a company is a nightmare. I wont wish it on my worst enemies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use. For staff who knows on prem database, it's not hard for them to pick up ExaData. Our enterprise project has been using Oracle DB for nearly 3 years now, now we are moving to ExaData Cloud service (ExaData) in OCI. We are running DB 12.1 now, moving to 12.2 and then to 18c soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The migration of on prem database to Exadata can be tricky. The upgrade/patch on ExaData strategy is also not necessary the same as on-prem DB, like the PSU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the fast performance of the system and the integration with logic and analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

what I dislike is the cost of the system to upgrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the capacibility, flexibility, and scalability of the product, and reporting, we also use it as a warehouse of our transition data base Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the set up is a little bit difficulty for oracle exadata Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

oracle exadata is robust product and have higher resilleincy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

exadata is expensive hard to setup and support is hard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system comes with hardware and software together and is highly performant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The hidden complexity for the technical people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

perforance , security, advance solution for analize analitic and sql for oltp in the same machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing exept the price , so exadata at customer is very expensive in south america Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The performance is amazing. We used it for a data warehouse application and data analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setup was difficult without Oracle experts. Proof of concept was a mess and hard to reinstall from for production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The i/O performance of the database

Monitoring

On Demand Licensing

COnsolidation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patching effort and the time it takes and the errors that we ran into is painful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.