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    IBM watsonx.data

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AWatsonx.data is presented as an open, hybrid and governed data store that makes it possible for enterprises to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture, supported by querying, governance and open data formats to access and share data.N/A

    Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 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 discover business insights using data of any size and type. The solution is built for the cloud and optimized using Oracle Exadata.N/A
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM watsonx.dataOracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    8.9
    (32 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.0
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    Usability
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    IBM watsonx.data is well suited for use cases were you have to combine various data sources to build a lakehouse. It provides a secure framework to gather data and provide access to it to build ML/AI models. It allows users to focus on prompts and business logic than spend time on data engineering.
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    Oracle
    II would recommend Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse to someone looking to fully automate the transferring of data especially in a warehouse scenario though I can see the elasticity of the suite that is offered and can see it is applicable in other scenarios not just warehouses.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • It doesn't just store data but unlocks potential. I am able to analyse a vast amount of information, identify trends, and predict future outcomes.
    • It not only gives me high quality but accessible data as well. It handles missing values, outliers and feature engineering with case.
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    Oracle
    • Very easy and fast to load data into the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
    • Exceptionally fast retrieval of data joining 100 million row table with a billion row table plus the size of the database was reduced by a factor of 10 due to how Oracle store[s] and organise[s] data and indexes.
    • Flexibility with scaling up and down CPU on the fly when needed, and just stop it when not needed so you don't get charged when it is not running.
    • It is always patched and always available and you can add storage dynamically as you need it.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • The UI can be slow to respond at times (just like many cloud services thought)
    • Semantic automation is still in beta and has no Japanese support yet
    • Loading data to the platform can be slow at times
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    Oracle
    • It is very expensive product. But not to mention, there's good reasons why it is expensive.
    • The product should support more cloud based services. When we made the decision to buy the product (which was 20 years ago,) there was no such thing to consider, but moving to a cloud based data warehouse may promise more scalability, agility, and cost reduction. The new version of Data Warehouse came out on the way, but it looks a bit behind compared to other competitors.
    • Our healthcare data consists of 30% coded data (such as ICD 10 / SNOMED C,T) but the rests is narrative (such as clinical notes.). Oracle is the best for warehousing standardized data, but not a good choice when considering unstructured data, or a mix of the two.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Oracle
    Because
    • It is really simple to provision and configure.
    • Does not require continous attention from the DBA, autonomous features allows the database to perform most of the regular admin tasks without need for human intervention.
    • Allows to integrate multiple data sources on a central data warehouse, and explode the information stored with different analytic and reporting tools.
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    Usability
    IBM
    I can give it 10/10 due to its impact in data analysis management. This is the right software for driving business insights and enhancing effective decision making. The infrastructure has the formal tools for preparing data before using it to make critical decisions. The NLP has enhanced standard analysis of unstructured data from social media websites.
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    Oracle
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
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    Oracle
    Understanding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is really simple, and Autonomous databases are even more. Using shared or dedicated infrastructure is one of the few things you need to consider at the moment of starting provisioning your Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM watsonx.data has great capabilities on multiple data easy accessibility and easy to extract data and sharing to various platforms. The IBM watsonx.data still offers effective data protection and the ability to manage large amount of business data from one piont is productive. Data warehousing capability is another implortant of using IBM watsonx.data and helpful of real time analytics production.
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    Oracle
    As I mentioned, I have also worked with Amazon Redshift, but it is not as versatile as Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and does not provide a large variety of products. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is also more reliable than Amazon Redshift, hence why I have chosen it
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • for one automation project, we managed to cut cloud storage costs by a third through IBM watsonx.data's lakehouse optimization
    • data integration projects have had a 20 % reduction in turnaround times. Can only imagine how that will improve with the Claude partnership
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    Oracle
    • Overall the business objective of all of our clients have been met positively with Oracle Data Warehouse. All of the required analysis the users were able to successfully carry out using the warehouse data.
    • Using a 3-tier architecture with the Oracle Data Warehouse at the back end the mid-tier has been integrated well. This is big plus in providing the necessary tools for end users of the data warehouse to carry out their analysis.
    • All of the various BI products (OBIEE, Cognos, etc.) are able to use and exploit the various analytic built-in functionalities of the Oracle Data Warehouse.
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