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Oracle Exadata vs WP Bolt comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Exadata
Ranking in Data Warehouse
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
130
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
WP Bolt
Ranking in Data Warehouse
26th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Exadata is 7.4%, down from 12.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WP Bolt is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Exadata7.4%
WP Bolt1.8%
Other90.8%
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Featured Reviews

Prabir Kumar Kundu - PeerSpot reviewer
SR AVP–Presales Cloud & Platform Management Services at Path Infotech ltd
Has consistently delivered high performance and aligned security while evolving with AI-driven improvements
When discussing Oracle Exadata, the main thing is the specialized database appliance, the flash cache, and the engineered machine on the database for the database itself. Overall, all the features are useful and meaningful for any database like Oracle to run the Oracle database. Regarding Smart Scan technology, it is for better performance. If a customer cannot tune their applications, this will help them to run the database and run the application without any tuning itself. Oracle Exadata's advanced compression techniques have affected my customer's data storage efficiency positively, with the feature being great, but as of now, our customer is not using that. I find its security measures align with my customer's organization, as security is aligned as per the customer's requirement. It has helped optimize performance and cost.
it_user665328 - PeerSpot reviewer
ETL Developer at a music company with 501-1,000 employees
the most useful feature of the product is object imaging. It is the champion in the world of RDBMS.
Although they already have patches to address the instability of CORV (Create or Replace Views) CASCADE, I believe this is the area that should receive most attention. I am, however, still not sure if the patch has officially been recognised and deployed as part of their version updates. There are a few critical issues/bugs that we have experienced on our production environment, which required intervention from Kognitio. As one of Kognitio's biggest clients, their response times were quick and patches were also quick to be released to address production issues. Also, slabs management seems to be, or can be, a very hands-on tasks especially when reaching its capacity. It will be every WX2/KAP developer’s or DBA’s paradise if the product can be configured in this area to be fully/semi-automated.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Exadata accelerates the performance to whole applications in the environment at least by 2-3x times than the old hardware."
"It's definitely been stable for us; over a four-year period, we had zero outages."
"We were really impressed with the performance of the applications."
"This product can noticeably enhance performance of contextual Oracle databases."
"Exadata is practically a perfect solution for us as it stands."
"Fast performance and tons of storage that we can have to put a lot of databases under the Exadata Server are the most valuable features in this product."
"The biggest benefit for organization is the performance."
"This is a really good solution; initially, query issues are expected but once stabilized, an amazing performance is expected."
"In the world of RDBMS, WX2/KAP is, I believe, the champion, or should be if not already!"
 

Cons

"It is difficult to evaluate return-on-investment because of the way billing is handled for the product. This should be improved by oracle."
"The most critical issue was due to a bug with SDP (Sockets Direct Protocol): after connecting Exalogic and Exadata to the same Infiniband fabric and after enabling SDP listeners on Exadata compute nodes, we faced unexpected and random crashes of database hosts."
"If you're running a commercial off the shelf application against these engineered system, sometimes it's a little more complex to work with a third party vendor, to speed things up."
"Licensing is per CPU and relatively expensive."
"Price: It’s extremely expensive."
"It's too expensive per terabyte. It's complex."
"One small area for improvement in Oracle Exadata is integration, particularly at the consolidated application level."
"The cost of the product could be improved."
"It does not have the robustness or stability like of Oracle or Teradata; the upper right quadrant."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I did note that Oracle does tend to internally oversize things especially if they want to fill up a budget, and hence third-party oversight is essential."
"There is an annual license to use this solution. The solution is expensive."
"The price of the solution has been expensive to implement."
"All things considered, the price of this product is fairly high, as is always the case with Oracle."
"The cost of the product could be improved."
"You have to pay for the storage and the database in Oracle Exadata. It cost a lot, but it is worth it. It would be a benefit if we could reduce the price for the number of CPUs and extend the memory."
"I'm giving Oracle Exadata five out of ten in terms of pricing. Its price could be lower."
"Oracle is always costly but it's fine."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
22%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business47
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise86
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Exadata?
I find its pricing reasonable and cost-effective for large organizations, but for smaller organizations, it may not be that useful.
What needs improvement with Oracle Exadata?
I believe that there is still room for improvement in Oracle Exadata, as they are putting AI features on those databases, which is making the database more user-friendly. Even you can talk to the d...
What is your primary use case for Oracle Exadata?
I deal most with Oracle database. I have been working with Oracle Database Appliance for more than 25 years, and if you're talking about appliance, it's more than 10 years, but on Oracle database, ...
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