We performed a comparison between MySQL and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, PostgreSQL, Firebird and others in Open Source Databases."MySQL is a scalable tool. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."
"The easy access to the data and the ability to sort the data with multiple methods are very valuable features."
"When comparing MySQL to other solutions it is easier to use and boots up faster. Additionally, when you want to query a lot of data, MySQL is better in performance."
"My main reason for using MySQL for this small customer database company and for some kinds of scientific projects was that I had to do the installation myself. I didn't have a database administration team behind me. Therefore, I was looking for something very easy to handle. MySQL is easy to install, connect, and do all such things."
"I like the simplistic view of MySQL to build custom queries and things like that as compared to SQL Server, which seems more cluttered. SQL Server has a query analyzer. MySQL pretty much does the same, and performance-wise, it has less overhead for connecting to our ERP system. It seems more responsive and cleaner. With MySQL, you get what you need without any overbloating, for which Microsoft is known. That's why they have so many constant security patches for everything because there is so much stuff, which degrades performance."
"The solution is very simple. It's easy to use. That's the most important feature."
"SKIP LOCKED is a valuable feature."
"For starters, it's free, which is always nice, and it's also pretty straightforward to use. It's a nice conventional database."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"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. "
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"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."
"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."
"At times, the autoscaling does not happen when there is a surge in load."
"Scalability could be improved."
"Since we upgraded from 8.0.12 to 8.0.22, it has had some slowness-related issues. Some of the queries that were fast previously are quite slow now. I did some research, and I found many people complaining about it."
"I would like to have the ability to cancel a query in SQL Developer."
"From a user perspective, the initial setup could be simplified a bit."
"It does not stand out regarding scalability. When the company size increases, the user base having actual experience with (very) large MySQL solutions is reduced."
"The availability of tools could be improved in the MySQL open-source platform. They can provide more analytical tools. I haven't had any particularly difficult issues to troubleshoot on MySQL, but in the past, on Microsoft SQL Server, I had to troubleshoot some difficult issues, and better tools were in place to see what was going on in real-time on the server. So, that's the bit that is lacking on the MySQL open-source platform."
"If the customer is already using or has already used Oracle for a long time they will know the look and feel and the character of this database that can fit into their business."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"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."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
"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."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
MySQL is ranked 1st in Open Source Databases with 142 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. MySQL is rated 8.2, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of MySQL writes "Good beginner base but it should have better support for backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". MySQL is most compared with Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Teradata and Amazon Aurora, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and SAP HANA.
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