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Big Data Appliance (Legacy)

byOracle
in
4.1
2025
Market Presence: Cloud Database Management Systems, Hadoop Distributions

Overview

Product Information on Big Data Appliance (Legacy)

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Big Data Appliance (Legacy)?

Big Data Appliance (Legacy) is a software developed to support organizations in managing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of structured and unstructured data. The software integrates various open-source components for big data processing, such as Hadoop and NoSQL databases, and provides a platform for data integration, loading, and transformation. It offers features related to data warehousing, analytics, and machine learning, enabling users to derive insights from diverse data sources. The software is designed to address the business challenge of efficiently storing and analyzing big data sets, streamlining the process of deriving business intelligence and supporting data-driven decision making.

Big Data Appliance (Legacy) Pricing

Big Data Appliance (Legacy) software was offered with a pricing model based on integrated hardware and software, typically licensed as a bundled solution including subscription support and maintenance, with costs varying depending on configuration, capacity, and required features.

Overall experience with Big Data Appliance (Legacy)

Customer Success Team Leader
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Oracle BigData”

4.0
Jun 27, 2019
One of the best things you can do with Oracle BigData is to scale and filter data quickly unlike experiences that competing products often offer.
Senior Software Engineer
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Extend your Oracle DWH solution with the power of Cloudera's CDH running on Oracle hw”

3.0
Jun 9, 2019
Oracle Big Data Appliance is essentially Oracle additions to Cloudera's CDH working on Oracle hardware. The product is convenient because enterprises can leverage open source software's power running on certified and high performance hardware along with connectivity to the already working data warehouse infrastructure.

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2025
For Market:
Cloud Database Management Systems

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Oracle is a cloud technology company that offers computing infrastructure and software solutions globally. This organization has developed an autonomous database, the first of its kind, to help manage and secure data. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure presents functionalities to facilitate the transition of workloads from on-site systems to the cloud, and vice versa, as well as between different clouds. Oracle's cloud software applications provide modern tools designed to support sustainable growth and resilience in businesses. Tools developed by Oracle are used by a wide range of users including nonprofit organizations and businesses of various sizes, to aid in operations like supply chain streamlining, human resource management, financial planning and connecting data and global users. Apart from business solutions, Oracle's technology also aids in tasks ranging from government defense to scientific and medical research.

Company Details

Updated 13th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1977
Head office location
Redwood Shores, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
http://www.oracle.com

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Big Data Appliance (Legacy) Likes & Dislikes

Like

It offers an infinite amount of possibilities to be realized through big data.

Like

Enterprises seek ways to deal with hot data and cold backup data - it also becomes vital when the cold backup data sometimes need to be processed for generating reports for example. Oracle Big Data Appliance provides the conveniency of Cloudera's CDH solution which has strong connectivity properties to existing Oracle DWH products.

Like

cost of deploying, maintaining, and upgrading my big data environment.

Dislike

It's definitely not easy to use. The design is also not very user friendly.

Dislike

From an end user point of view, the product just works - but internally Oracle had some struggles developing the software components I think. We couldn't find proper documentation on installing services and configuring them. Even a python script that was supposed to install a service was giving us headaches because of warnings and unintuitive errors.

Dislike

Not at all it is very secure

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Big Data Appliance (Legacy) Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 25 ratings and reviews for Cloud Database Management Systems market. View all 30 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.1

(25 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
40%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
12%
2 Star
4%
1 Star
4%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.0

Integration & Deployment

4.0

Service & Support

4.1

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • Senior Software Engineer
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Extend your Oracle DWH solution with the power of Cloudera's CDH running on Oracle hw

    3.0
    Jun 9, 2019
    Oracle Big Data Appliance is essentially Oracle additions to Cloudera's CDH working on Oracle hardware. The product is convenient because enterprises can leverage open source software's power running on certified and high performance hardware along with connectivity to the already working data warehouse infrastructure.
  • Customer Success Team Leader
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Oracle BigData

    4.0
    Jun 27, 2019
    One of the best things you can do with Oracle BigData is to scale and filter data quickly unlike experiences that competing products often offer.
  • Software Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Oracle secure your data

    5.0
    Jun 6, 2019
    It is automatically identify anomalies , secure your data, and simplify compliance auditing. It minimize deployment times.
  • Senior Data Architect
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Fast and easy to start

    4.0
    Apr 24, 2019
    Oracle Big data appliance is one of the fastest in the market and also need little technical experience.Easy to maintain and Oracle provide many documentation
  • Human Resource Manager
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    For delivery of the most cost effective way to do business use this product.

    5.0
    Jan 21, 2019
    This product offers a way to analyze your companies large data workloads with the push of a button.
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