We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Vertica is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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