Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse vs Oracle Database Appliance comparison

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance are both solutions in the Cloud Data Warehouse category. Additionally, 95% of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Oracle Database Appliance users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Database Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

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Oracle Database Appliance

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

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Data Warehouse (6th)

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reviewer1297710

IT Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Analytics and data security needs are met but optimization requires improvement

We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company The solution is used for analytics and it works for our data security needs. We continue to use it with satisfaction. Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not…

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Rubens Oliveira

Data & Solution Archtect at Enkel

Automated provisioning simplifies deployment and integration

The Oracle Database Appliance is customizable and has excellent features.I don't have any problems with Oracle Database Appliance because this product is very automated, with scheduler and automatic processes throughout. You can make small inferences and changes for creating all the specific modifications. The automated provisioning feature helps speed up the database deployment process because you can use one command or option to resize all the disks or increase memory, depending on the occasion. The Oracle Database Appliance has integration in OCI Cloud. The same services simplify all the manager work regarding backups, configuration, resizing disks, and other services. Deploying the Oracle Database Appliance both on-premises and in the cloud offers the same simplification. You simply input your database name and specify memory quantity, CPU quantity, and database size. The process is identical for both on-premises and cloud deployments. The flexibility of Oracle Database Appliance has helped grow business needs for many customers. Using the Oracle Database Appliance has positively impacted my organization because I can deliver it much more comfortably. Creating a database involves many processes, but with this solution, you just input the name and configure the network and other parameters. It is very similar to RDS in AWS services, where you specify the name, choose the engine, indicate parameter groups, VPC, subnet groups, and proceed. Both Oracle Database Appliance and RDS have greatly simplified the work.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is self-securing. All data is encrypted and security updates and patches are applied automatically both periodically and off-cycle."

"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 reason we use it."

"It is an extremely scalable solution since you can dynamically change the resources as some other cloud solutions."

"The product has self-repair features."

"The solution integrates well with Power BI."

"A very good integration feature that restricts access to unauthorized people."

"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."

"It is a stable and scalable solution."

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"The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is very helpful. The initial setup is straightforward. I consider the product a strong solution for our customers."

"The main feature is the management and manageability of the tool. We can create a VM on a laptop within a couple of clicks."

"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to combine all the data without the need for additional devices."

"The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management."

"We primarily use it for OLTP, which has improved our costs."

"The initial setup was straightforward and quick - I was able to configure everything within an hour."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

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Cons

"We are not satisfied with the technical support. Their understanding is lacking."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is not available as an on-premises solution."

"An improvement for us would be the inclusion of support for an internal IP, so we could use it directly with the VCN in Oracle Cloud."

"A lot of the tools that were previously there have now been taken away."

"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."

"Sometimes the solution works differently between the cloud and on-premises. It needs to be more consistent and predictable."

"The setup is complex."

"The solution could be improved by allowing for migration tools from other cloud services, including migration from Amazon Redshift, RDS, and Aurora."

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"The solution’s flexibility could be improved."

"I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. It has some problems. Databases are huge. This leads to needing more and more RAM and capacity resources, making it hard to scale. Because of this, we use Exadata. That's definitely a point for improvement."

"In terms of what can be be improved, I'd say Artificial Intelligence, AI. It would be really helpful if AI was incorporated within the solution."

"The product's technical support services need improvement."

"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."

"Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization."

"If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this."

"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is perfect with Oracle Universal credit."

"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 price depends on the configuration we choose."

"You pay as you go, and you don't pay for services that you don't use."

"Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse's pricing is fair and reasonable compared to the other cloud vendors."

"The solution is expensive."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."

"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."

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"Oracle Database Appliance is a very expensive solution. If you have opted for the on-premises licenses from Oracle, then you have to pay yearly. If you have opted for the cloud subscriptions offered by Oracle, then you can pay either monthly or yearly."

"The solution's pricing is very high."

"Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."

"In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution."

"The product is costly."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing seven and a half or eight out of ten."

"The solution may be expensive, but when we consider the problems it solves, the stability it provides, and the fact that we don't have to buy separate parts and assemble them into a system, it becomes more affordable."

"I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Media Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	15

Questions from the Community

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.

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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.

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What is your primary use case for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?

We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company.

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What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?

I am satisfied with the price for Oracle Database Appliance.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?

Currently, Oracle Database Appliance is good with no room for improvement.In future updates of Oracle Database Appliance, I would like to see AI implemented since AI is getting more attention.

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Overview

Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is the world’s first and only autonomous database optimized for analytic workloads, including data marts, data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses. With Autonomous Data Warehouse, data scientists, business analysts, and nonexperts can rapidly, easily, and cost-effectively discover business insights using data of any size and type. Built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata, Autonomous Data Warehouse benefits from faster performance and, according to an IDC report (PDF), lowers operational costs by an average of 63%.

Autonomous Database provides the foundation for a data lakehouse—a modern, open architecture that enables you to store, analyze, and understand all your data. The data lakehouse combines the power and richness of data warehouses with the breadth, flexibility, and low cost of popular open source data lake technologies. Access your data lakehouse through Autonomous Database using the world's most powerful and open SQL processing engine.

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Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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