We performed a comparison between Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"Collecting the data through SSIS packages from different sources and putting them all in one data repository is the most powerful thing. While others have this feature, they don't have the simplicity or ease of use when getting a resource and knowing everything about it."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"We can store the data in a data lake for a very low cost."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"The most valuable feature is the business intelligence (BI) part of it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Its analytics has enabled Pythian's clients to get the business insights as quick as they wanted. Its lower maintenance has also improved the ROI."
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"In the future I would love to see a slightly better automation engine, just for the data integration layer, to make it slightly easier for end-users or junior developers to get involved in incremental updating."
"The product does not have all of the features that the native products have."
"We find the cost of the solution to be a little high."
"We'd like to see it be a bit more compatible with other solutions."
"The solution is expensive and has room for improvement."
"Sometimes, the product requires rolling back to its previous version during a software update. This particular area could be enhanced."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 8th in Data Warehouse with 32 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "An easy to setup tool that allows its users to write stored procedure, making it a scalable product". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Oracle Exadata, SAP BW4HANA, VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Snowflake, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs. Vertica report.
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