We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Database and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."IBM Db2 was much cheaper as a package than using other products. This is because IBM supplied a package with its product. It's an application. So it was much more efficient and a stronger competitor in that regard."
"The solution is a very stable relational database and has integration with legacy systems. It is a great product."
"It is quite a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of the IBM Db2 Database is security."
"Db2 database scalability and performance capabilities match our database needs. It covers pretty much everything a database administrator or engineer might need."
"Scales well enough for a relational database."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with other IBM products."
"The performance of the solution is valuable."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently."
"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."
"It would be helpful to have more querying tools and more development tools for us to work easily with Microsoft."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve in the steps it takes for upgrades. It is not an easy process. The process of upgrading the version is lengthy and requires a lot of time. To make it more efficient, I suggest implementing some automation on the solution side. This will greatly reduce the time required for the upgrade."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve with better security."
"Do not use support. Freely available documentation is a bit weak."
"The solution could be more modern and have updated database technology."
"Some of the internal rearrangement in the administration is not as straightforward as it is in competing products."
"The only drawback that we see in Db2 Database is the crash recovery. When there is a crash and somebody has to do the recovery, Db2 Database first stops, and then it does any crash recovery. In Oracle Database, crash recovery happens within the database. The database is not shut down."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve the user-defined functions. There are some user-defined functions that are missing, such as the spring functions. I used to have Teradata for my projects and I was used to working in the environment. They had a good set of user-defined functions."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"I think they need an easy client so that you can write queries easily, but it's not necessarily a weak point. I think some users would need them."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"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."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 66 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, Teradata and MySQL, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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