Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs Vertica

Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is ranked 11th in Data Warehouse with 3 reviews vs Vertica which is ranked 2nd in Data Warehouse with 42 reviews. The top reviewer of Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse writes "Gives us the ability to distribute large data sets across nodes". The top reviewer of Vertica writes "I like the clustering aspect with the share-nothing mentality. I also value the ease of maintenance. ". Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Teradata and Netezza. Vertica is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Teradata and Pivotal Greenplum. See our Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse vs Vertica report.

Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse

Vertica

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Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse

Based on 3 reviews.

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Vertica

Based on 42 reviews.

Most Helpful Review

it_user400518

Teradata DBA / Parallel datawarehouse DBA at a tech services company

Concurrency issues forced the customer to use the raw DB as a secondary solution

It helped, initially, as a replacement for our DW DB, but later on faced issues due to concurrency, which forced the customer to use the DB as a... Read more »

Dan Wities

Bi Group Manager at a tech company

Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes

It is tremendously scalability, with excellent performance. Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning.

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Pros
It handles high volumes of data very well.It has allowed fast daily loads and analysis of millions of rows of data, which eventually moved to near real-time. Read more »	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.Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics.Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all).Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning.Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes.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 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. Read more »
Cons
It needs more compatibility with common BI tools.Concurrent queries are limited to 32, making it more of a data storage mechanism instead of an active DWH solution. Read more »	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.It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning.Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server.If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer.It would be great if this were a managed service in AWS.One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility.I believe the installation process could be streamlined. Read more »

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Read the fine print carefully.I think it's starting to get a little expensive. Open source products are starting to get more robust, so I think that's something that they need to start looking at in terms of licensing.The first TB is free and you can use all the Vertica features. After 1TB you have to pay for licensing. The product is worth it, but be aware of this condition, and plan. The compression ratio is explained in the documentation.Start with license per 1TB. Starting from hundreds of TB there is unlimited licensing to be considered. Move historical data to HDFS/S3 which are significantly cheaper or even free.It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys.

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Ranking
RANKING	11th out of 28 In Data Warehouse Views 5,395 Comparisons 3,195 Reviews 3 Followers 641 Avg. Rating 5.7	2nd out of 28 In Data Warehouse Views 22,908 Comparisons 8,117 Reviews 42 Followers 1,006 Avg. Rating 8.2
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	Oracle Exadata vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse Compared 29% of the time. Teradata vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse Compared 18% of the time. Netezza vs. Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse Compared 13% of the time. See more Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse competitors »	Oracle Exadata vs. Vertica Compared 20% of the time. Teradata vs. Vertica Compared 17% of the time. Pivotal Greenplum vs. Vertica Compared 12% of the time. See more Vertica competitors »

Also Known As
Also Known As	Microsoft PDW, SQL Server Data Warehouse, Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse	Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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Overview
Overview	The traditional structured relational data warehouse was never designed to handle the volume of exponential data growth, the variety of semi-structured and unstructured data types, or the velocity of real time data processing. Microsoft's SQL Server data warehouse solution integrates your traditional data warehouse with non-relational data and it can handle data of all sizes and types, with real-time performance.	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
Sample Customers	Auckland Transport, Erste Bank Group, Urban Software Institute, NJVC, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Tata Steel Europe	Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
Top Industries
Top Industries	VISITORS READING REVIEWS Financial Services Firm 21% Hospitality Company 10% Comms Service Provider 9% Insurance Company 8%	REVIEWERS Media Company 21% Software R&D Company 21% Marketing Services Firm 17% Comms Service Provider 14% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Financial Services Firm 21% Comms Service Provider 19% Marketing Services Firm 9% Media Company 9%
Company Size
Company Size	REVIEWERS Small Business 38% Midsize Enterprise 13% Large Enterprise 50% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 11% Midsize Enterprise 19% Large Enterprise 70%	REVIEWERS Small Business 29% Midsize Enterprise 24% Large Enterprise 47% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 23% Midsize Enterprise 25% Large Enterprise 52%

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