We performed a comparison between SingleStore and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data."
"The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown."
"The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, with no complex processes."
"The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines."
"MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms."
"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."
"Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning."
"I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"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."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"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."
"Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial."
"The product can be developed further to provide more appropriate output to users as it is one of the areas where there are shortcomings."
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks."
"Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally."
"There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."
"We don't get good discounts in Pakistan."
"For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback."
"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."
"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."
"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."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"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."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
SingleStore is ranked 7th in Database as a Service with 7 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. SingleStore is rated 8.8, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SingleStore writes "A reasonably priced product that offers good speed and seamless support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SingleStore is most compared with SQL Server, Teradata, MySQL, CockroachDB and MariaDB, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and IBM Netezza Performance Server.
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SQreamDB is a GPU DB. It is not suitable for real-time oltp of course.
Cassandra is best suited for OLTP database use cases, when you need a scalable database (instead of SQL server, Postgres)
SQream is a GPU database suited for OLAP purposes. It's the best suite for a very large data warehouse, very large queries needed mass parallel activity since GPU is great in massive parallel workload.
Also, SQream is quite cheap since we need only one server with a GPU card, the best GPU card the better since we will have more CPU activity. It's only for a very big data warehouse, not for small ones.
Your best DB for 40+ TB is Apache Spark, Drill and the Hadoop stack, in the cloud.
Use the public cloud provider's elastic store (S3, Azure BLOB, google drive) and then stand up Apache Spark on a cluster sized to run your queries within 20 minutes. Based on my experience (Azure BLOB store, Databricks, PySpark) you may need around 500 32GB nodes for reading 40 TB of data.
Costs can be contained by running your own clusters but Databricks manage clusters for you.
I would recommend optimizing your 40TB data store into the Databricks delta format after an initial parse.
Morten, the most popular comparisons of SQream can be found here: www.itcentralstation.com
The top ones include Cassandra, MemSQL, MongoDB, and Vertica.