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Azure Data Factory vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Data Factory
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (1st)
Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Azure Data Factory is 7.5%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 5.0%, up from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Joy Maitra - PeerSpot reviewer
Facilitates seamless data pipeline creation with good analytics and and thorough monitoring
Azure Data Factory is a low code, no code platform, which is helpful. It provides many prebuilt functionalities that assist in building data pipelines. Also, it facilitates easy transformation with all required functionalities for analytics. Furthermore, it connects to different sources out-of-the-box, making integration much easier. The monitoring is very thorough, though a more readable version would be appreciable.
Kwajah Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex
We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"An excellent tool for pipeline orchestration."
"The tool's most valuable features are its connectors. It has many out-of-the-box connectors. We use ADF for ETL processes. Our main use case involves integrating data from various databases, processing it, and loading it into the target database. ADF plays a crucial role in orchestrating these ETL workflows."
"Feature-wise, one of the most valuable ones is the data flows introduced recently in the solution."
"It is a complete ETL Solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and the readily available adapters for connecting with various sources."
"One advantage of Azure Data Factory is that it's fast, unlike SSIS and other on-premise tools. It's also very convenient because it has multiple connectors. The availability of native connectors allows you to connect to several resources to analyze data streams."
"The initial setup is very quick and easy."
"Data Factory itself is great. It's pretty straightforward. You can easily add sources, join and lookup information, etc. The ease of use is pretty good."
"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Self-patching and runs machine-learning across its logs all the time"
"The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs."
"The product is easy to use."
"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."
"The product has self-repair features."
"It provides Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) capabilities by default to address data security issues."
 

Cons

"The product integration with advanced coding options could cater to users needing more customization."
"If the user interface was more user friendly and there was better error feedback, it would be helpful."
"Azure Data Factory can improve the transformation features. You have to do a lot of transformation activities. This is something that is just not fully covered. Additionally, the integration could improve for other tools, such as Azure Data Catalog."
"The thing we missed most was data update, but this is now available as of two weeks ago."
"The tool’s workflow is not user-friendly. It should also improve its orchestration monitoring."
"There are performance issues, particularly with the underlying compute, which should be configurable."
"We have experienced some issues with the integration. This is an area that needs improvement."
"User-friendliness and user effectiveness are unquestionably important, and it may be a good option here to improve the user experience. However, I believe that more and more sophisticated monitoring would be beneficial."
"Sometimes the solution works differently between the cloud and on-premises. It needs to be more consistent and predictable."
"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."
"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace. The ADB serverless option doesn't support custom tablespace creation, which could cause issues during on-premise database migration that requires specifically named tablespace. There should be an option to create customized tablespace."
"The solution lacks visibility options."
"Optimization should be better."
"The setup is complex."
"There is a need for more storage to be allocated, but over a period of time, it becomes impossible to reduce it after using it."
"It is very important the integration with other platforms be made to be as easy as it is with an on-premises deployment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of licensing costs, we pay somewhere around S14,000 USD per month. There are some additional costs. For example, we would have to subscribe to some additional computing and for elasticity, but they are minimal."
"Data Factory is expensive."
"I would rate Data Factory's pricing nine out of ten."
"I would not say that this product is overly expensive."
"This is a cost-effective solution."
"The cost is based on the amount of data sets that we are ingesting."
"The solution's pricing is competitive."
"I rate the product price as six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."
"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."
"Cloud solutions are cheaper, but in the long run, they may not be much cheaper. They certainly have a lower initial cost. The licensing is yearly, and it is based on the size of the hardware and the number of users."
"The solution is expensive."
"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"The price depends on the configuration we choose."
"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
23%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How do you select the right cloud ETL tool?
AWS Glue and Azure Data factory for ELT best performance cloud services.
How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica PowerCenter?
Azure Data Factory is flexible, modular, and works well. In terms of cost, it is not too pricey. It offers the stability and reliability I am looking for, good scalability, and is easy to set up an...
How does Azure Data Factory compare with Informatica Cloud Data Integration?
Azure Data Factory is a solid product offering many transformation functions; It has pre-load and post-load transformations, allowing users to apply transformations either in code by using Power Q...
What do you like most about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
With Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, things are much simpler. Creating a structure, initializing the servers, extending the servers, those are all things that are very, very easy. That's the main...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

1. Adobe 2. BMW 3. Coca-Cola 4. General Electric 5. Johnson & Johnson 6. LinkedIn 7. Mastercard 8. Nestle 9. Pfizer 10. Samsung 11. Siemens 12. Toyota 13. Unilever 14. Verizon 15. Walmart 16. Accenture 17. American Express 18. AT&T 19. Bank of America 20. Cisco 21. Deloitte 22. ExxonMobil 23. Ford 24. General Motors 25. IBM 26. JPMorgan Chase 27. Microsoft (Azure Data Factory is developed by Microsoft) 28. Oracle 29. Procter & Gamble 30. Salesforce 31. Shell 32. Visa
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