Citus Data vs. Vertica Comparison

Citus Data

Vertica

Citus Data

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2,039 views|1,541 comparisons

Vertica

Read 7 Vertica reviews.

14,490 views|8,334 comparisons

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Teddy Elias

Senior Manager, Systems and Network Engineering at a computer software company

Improved my organization's functionality and performance

It has improved my organization's functionality and performance.

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Pros
"It's very straightforward to implement the solution. It took us two days to set up everything." More Citus Data Pros »	"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution.""The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast.""Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data.""Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed.""For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments.""Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product.""It has improved my organization's functionality and performance.""The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful." More Vertica Pros »
Cons
"More features in monitoring and the reporting could make it better." More Citus Data Cons »	"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly.""When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow.""Support is an area where it could get better.""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.""Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint.""The geospatial functionality could be designed better.""We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well.""They could improve on customer service." More Vertica Cons »

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Information Not Available	"From a cost perspective, the software is less than most of its competitors.""It's difficult today to compete with open-source solutions. In these areas, there is a lot of competition and the price of this solution is a bit pricy." More Vertica Pricing and Cost Advice »

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Ask a question Earn 20 points	Which is the best RDMBS solution for big data? Top Answer: 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)… more » Read all 4 answers What do you like most about Vertica? Top Answer: The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast. Read all 6 answers What needs improvement with Vertica? Top Answer: When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow. Read all 6 answers
Ranking
15th out of 34 in Relational Databases Views 2,039 Comparisons 1,541 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 299 Rating 9.0	4th out of 30 in Data Warehouse Views 14,490 Comparisons 8,334 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 478 Rating 9.1
Popular Comparisons
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Also Known As
	Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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Citus Data	Micro Focus
Overview
Citus is a distributed database that extends PostgreSQL, allowing you to continue using all the powerful Postgres features while still scaling. Whether you're running into a ceiling on a single node, or need more performance for real-time analytical queries Citus can help.	Micro Focus Vertica is the most advanced SQL database analytics portfolio built from the very first line of code to address the most demanding Big Data analytics initiatives. Micro Focus Vertica delivers speed without compromise, scale without limits, and the broadest range of consumption models. Choose Vertica on premise, on demand, in the cloud, or on Hadoop. With support for all leading BI and visualization tools, open source technologies like Hadoop and R, and built-in analytical functions, Vertica helps you derive more value from your Enterprise Data Warehouse and data lakes and get to market faster with your analytics initiatives. To learn more about Micro Focus Vertica Advanced Analytics, visit our website.
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Sample Customers
Cloud Flare, Agari, Mix Rank, Heap	Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
Top Industries
VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider21% Retailer10% Financial Services Firm6%	REVIEWERS Computer Software Company23% Media Company19% Marketing Services Firm16% Comms Service Provider13% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Computer Software Company36% Comms Service Provider16% Financial Services Firm7% Media Company7%
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No Data Available	REVIEWERS Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise45%

Citus Data is ranked 15th in Relational Databases with 1 review while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 7 reviews. Citus Data is rated 9.0, while Vertica is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Citus Data writes "A solution that offers good scalability with a straightforward implementation process ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes "Superior performance in speed and resilience makes this a very good warehousing solution". Citus Data is most compared with CockroachDB, SQL Server, Amazon Aurora, SingleStore DB and MySQL, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, Apache Hadoop, Teradata, Amazon Redshift and Exasol.

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