Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service Competitors and Alternatives

What do you think of Vertica?

Valuable Features Columnar storage makes 'hot data' available much faster than a traditional RDBMS solution. Also, Vertica scales up quickly and maintains good performance. • Improvements to My Organization Performance management of high-traffic sites - Vertica's ease of scaling has been invaluable for one of our main customers. • Room for Improvement I'm concerned that HP Enterprise has sold their software business, and worry about future investment to enhance predictive/machine-learning capabilities. • Use of Solution 3 years. • Stability Issues Not really.... Vertica shines on stability. • Scalability Issues No, scalability is also a strength of the solution. • Customer Service and Technical Support 9 out of 10. HPE has some excellent engineers who are...

What do you think of Amazon Redshift?

Primary Use Case Storing and querying data in near real time. Loading millions of raw CSV records. Running data comparisons and queries, then shutting it all down all within a few hours, once a week. • Improvements to My Organization Easy to load and reload data. • Valuable Features Fast load times  Flexibility in column definitions The ability to reload data multiple times at different times. • Room for Improvement It would be nice if it was a bit cheaper to retain data long-term.  Should be made available across zones, like other Multi-AZ solutions. • Use of Solution Less than one year. • Pricing, License Cost and Setup Per hour pricing is helpful to keep the costs of a pilot down, but long-term retention is expensive.