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."It is a very stable database."
"The most valuable features are the performance and usability."
"The solution has been reliable."
"The solution's integration is good."
"It is not a pricey product compared to other data warehouse solutions."
"Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse integrates beautifully with other Microsoft ecosystem products."
"We have complete control over our data."
"I am very satisfied with the customer service/technical support."
"Vertica is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. "
"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 ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"I would like the tool to support different operating systems."
"Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution."
"More tools to help designers should be included."
"Some compatibility issues occur during deployment, so we need to build the product from scratch for some features."
"It could be made more user-friendly for business users which would increase the user base."
"If the database is large with a lot of columns then it is difficult to clean the data."
"It could offer more development across the solution."
"The query is slow if we don't optimize it."
"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."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."
"It would be great if this were a managed service in AWS."
"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 needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
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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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