We performed a comparison between Exasol 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."Its speed is great."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"The most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"It is easy to scale."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"Its analytics has enabled Pythian's clients to get the business insights as quick as they wanted. Its lower maintenance has also improved the ROI."
"The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"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."
"I like the projection feature, which increases query performance."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"The integration with AI has room for 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."
"Support is an area where it could get better."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"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."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, SAP HANA, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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