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What do you like best about EXASOL?

The Performance is the best of market,never I could see an Analytic Database with this Performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

I believe that Exasol needs more marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Load data near real time, performance to see strategics dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EXASOL Overview

What is EXASOL?

Exasol is the world's fastest analytics database, as measured by the independent Transaction Processing Council (TPC). The world's most ambitious organizations trust Exasol due to three unique technical features: In-memory architecture Want to process 3 billion rows in 3 seconds, not 3 hours? Exasol manages memory cache automatically, only bringing what's needed into the database for dramatically faster access times. Automatic query tuning Enjoy optimized performance while minimizing data administration overhead. Exasol uses intelligent, proprietary algorithms to self-tune queries on the fly -- adding and removing indices automatically – so you can bring true self-service BI to your organization. User defined functions (UDF) When you need more than a SQL statement, UDF scripts allow you to program your own analysis. Take your unique machine learning and data ingest scripts written in Python, R, and Lua, and run them in our database engine. Through UDF scripts, you'll get a highly flexible interface for nearly every requirement, allowing you to bring in data quickly from wherever it lives. In addition to being the fastest, Exasol also leads in the TPC price-performance metrics, meaning everyone in your organization can take advantage of unrivaled in-memory speed at a low price. And, unlike our competitors, Exasol allows you to choose the deployment destination. Deploy in the cloud, on-premises, or hybrid to meet your organization's unique needs and preferred vendors.

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EXASOL is a high-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics. From business-critical data applications to advanced analytics, the database helps you to analyze large volumes of data in real-time, helping you to accelerate your BI and reporting, and to turn data into value.


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EXASOL
Year Founded
2000
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Nurnberg, Bayern
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Okan .Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
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It has a great speed compare to other analytics DB providers
Hugo V.
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5.0 out of 5
"The best Analytic Database performance"
The Performance is the best of market,never I could see an Analytic Database with this Performance
Josip C.
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Josip C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best analytics DB"
Easy to use and build complex SQL queries. Performance on it is fantastic. It is also great, that it can handle multiple users to work on the same...
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Okan .
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Data Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

It has a great speed compare to other analytics DB providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

It's a low level of consultancy and low level of market knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering EXASOL:

It's great db for analytics solution, needs much more atention and very similar syntax to Oracle with can unlock migrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a huge data thats why we need a great product at speed and exasol doing it very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jatinder S.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

In Exasol, I found that I can do a lot more with my same skill set without learn much more knew skills and in the same environment I can do a lot more and build things so quickly that I needed more time before. Exasol has great performance, reliability, and ease to use the database is amazing. Never fails once configured correctly :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

I haven't seen anything so far, it worked in every case scenario that I needed :). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering EXASOL:

Ease to use, low TCO and realiable with great customer support from the Exasol team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

I dedicate myself to Business Analytics with a mission to help organizations to analyze and understand their data and take their business to next level. Exasaol helps to make decisions faster with faster iteration loops and scalability without worries. Exasol helps businesses to incorporate self-service analytics enabling Business users to generate results quickly and reducing the burden on the Data Teams. In short faster analytics faster decisions faster response to business problems :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ricardo G.
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Digital Analytics Project Manager
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

My first experience with Exasol was revealing: when migrating our data warehouse we saw many reports running in 1/10 of the time.

This extraordinary performance allowed to, over time, squeeze much more value from the database, while keeping low maintenance and development costs.

For my Analytics department, migrating to Exasol was the single most important step that we took to provide a better service to business, assure quick development cycles and incur in minimal admin effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Scripting capabilities can be enhanced and better documented. It is not always easy to find resources capable to program with Lua scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building a wide set of Analytics solutions, including customer profiles, data science models, stock optimization solutions and Dashboards. Each provide a relevant business impact within the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

EXASOL is an incredibly powerful database - its performance mean that I never have to worry about computational efficiency when designing analytics pipelines and can focus on building in complex logic that will allow us to make sure our tool will serve the needs of our field staff.

The EXASOL team has proven to be excellent - both in terms of their willingness to support me queries and their technical knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

It is actually to come up with a list of grievances I have with EXASOL - using the database has been an incredible smooth experience from the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

EXASOL is the key database technology that sits at the core of our analytics infrastructure. It is the repository for the data collected by our field staff and surgeons, and serves as the data source for all the dashboards built on top of it.

The flexibility and power of the database has allowed us to get more tools out to the field, especially in resource constrained environments where internet signals might be very weak. EXASOL's power has allowed us to reduce one point of failure in the entire system, meaning that we can collect more data about patients, ensure surgeons get paid on time, and that our internal team can always do the crucial data audits and review needed to ensure our programs are delivering a real impact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vitaly M.
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Senior Data Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

+ Amazing performance in general;

+ Cost-to-performance ratio is very competitive, you'll need much less hardware;

+ Efficient indexed JOINs, probably best in class;

+ Flexible UDF scripts, can be implemented in any programming language and run in parallel; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

- Lack of native support for composite data types;

- Lack of native partial backup (per-table, per-schema), must use EXPORT instead;

- Detection of data lineage is a bit difficult, unless you implement it yourself externally;

- Cloud capabilities are not fully utilised (yet), but it's not a problem for "on-premise"; Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Self-service analytics, ad-hoc queries, financial reporting, data-driven internal products (e.g. A/B testing, forecasting), machine learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Josip C.
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Software Developer Agile
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

Easy to use and build complex SQL queries. Performance on it is fantastic.

It is also great, that it can handle multiple users to work on the same dataset without any problems with performance.

Great tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Initially had problems loading data via Alteryx but switching to the ExaLoader created lightning fast bulk load solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are building reporting on top of it and doing ad-hoc analysis.

Speed is phenomenal even when running complex queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

There are so many things to like about Exasol but below are definitely on top

1: Performance

2:Easy To Use

3: Simple Artifacts to use

4:Super Friendly support

5:End User Trainings and Certifications material availability

6:Usage on AWS and Google Clouds

7:Native support to Java, Python and R Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Exasol does not really have a drawback at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our primary use of Exasol is to provide fast, accurate, and timely data for business users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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What do you like best about EXASOL?

Fantastic performance per dollar ratio.

Scale out without problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Granularity of the transaction management system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering EXASOL:

Do a PoC. It can be mind opening.

First time in 20 years in it that I was thrilled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solved the high cost and poor performance of our enterprise data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about EXASOL?

Great foundation. Basic SQL operations (joining, grouping, sorting) are greatly implemented and scale to many billions of rows. you'll build plenty of great things on top of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Loaders and connectivity options may well be better. Those tools are very flexible internally, but you have got to understand the way to use them properly. And documentation is simply too generic sometimes, lacking implementation details. we are able to decompile it and peek inside to require advantage of hidden stuff, but most of the individuals can't do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering EXASOL:

If you opt for bare-metal hardware, buy a smaller number of most performant servers. it'll be much easier to scale your cluster later. Also, please confirm you have got a minimum of 10Gb private network and the maximum amount RAM as possible. It really helps if you have got 90%+ buffer hit rate, so most of the SELECTED queries never touch HDD / SDD. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

UDF framework allows to run any custom code inside Exasol, so you will potentially connect with anything within the most native way. This in a way has helped improve our business process agility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about EXASOL?

Exasol is a very good tool for processing large amount of data, it also allows miutiple users to work on data without compromising the query performance. Exasol also allows integration with other programming languages like python and Java Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about EXASOL?

Exasol does not really have a drawback except that it can be a little expensive for companies just starting out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering EXASOL:

Exasol is a good tool to use irrespective of the company's size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is EXASOL solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Exasol multiuser interface, me and my colleagues have been able to analyze data simultaneously with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.