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 feature of this solution is performance."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"The UI is very simple and functional for my clients, most of the clients that use the solution are not experts."
"Data collection and reporting are valuable features of the solution."
"I like Data Warehouse's data integrity features. Data integrity is what databases are made for as opposed to spreadsheets."
"It performs very well overall."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"The feature I like best is performance. We use Red Tool and Red Job for the data warehouse and reporting. It's perfect. Performance is good, and it can return ad hoc queries very quickly. Of course, it's a cluster, so it's easy to scale."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"The Vertica architecture means it can process/ingest data in parallel to reporting and analyzing because of its in-memory Write-Optimized Storage sitting alongside the analytics optimized Read-Optimized Storage."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"I would like the ability to do more real-time type updates instead of batch-oriented updates."
"The feature updates on the on-premise solution come very slowly, and it would be great if they came faster."
"It needs more compatibility with common BI tools."
"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."
"They need to incorporate a machine learning engine."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"I have found that coding support could be simplified."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
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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 83 reviews. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is rated 7.6, while Vertica is rated 8.2. 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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