Vertica Competitors and Alternatives

The top Vertica competitors are

Pivotal Greenplum
Apache Hadoop
Teradata
Oracle Exadata
Amazon Redshift
Cassandra
Snowflake Computing
SQL Server

Read reviews of Vertica competitors and alternatives

SQL Server

Microsoft

Albeez

IT Director at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 05 2017

What is most valuable?

Apart from the standard SQL database-related features, the 2012 version enables the AlwaysOn functionality which... more»

How has it helped my organization?

We have deployed three instances of the SQL Server, i.e., two at the primary datacenter and one at the disaster... more»

What needs improvement?

The Always ON (High Availability) functionality is support only with the MS SQL enterprise edition. It would be... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

When comparing the Standard Edition to the Enterprise, it is expensive but the performance and features meet with the... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

In the earlier versions, we used log shipping to the other servers for the failover and replication requirements. With... more»

What other advice do I have?

The latest 2016 version has many more new features and functionalities, if you have the Enterprise Level Agreement and... more»

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Oracle Exadata

Oracle

vicepres9f36

VP at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 01 2016

What do you think of Oracle Exadata?

Valuable Features: The best features are its robustness, stability, and performance. • Room for Improvement: Actually, I'm using the old version. The latest version is already out with all a lot of new features; so what I’m looking for is already there in that. Once we start using the new one, then we can come to know what additions we can put in. • Stability Issues: It seems very stable. • Scalability Issues: Scalability is good. • Customer Service and Technical Support: Technical support is awesome. Oracle is our technical support; so when we need it, they are there. • Initial Setup: Initial setup is complex. You need Oracle technical support to do your initial setup. • Other Advice: I would certainly say if you're looking for something scalable or...

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Teradata

it_user310206

Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Mar 18 2018

What is most valuable?

Efficiency of running analytical queries. Teradata was mainly invented for that purpose and it really does it well. We... more»

How has it helped my organization?

* Cuts time to process huge amounts of data with analytical queries * A conventional and easily defined way to build a... more»

What needs improvement?

Query language and its functionality are rather limited, compared to Oracle or even SQL Server. However, it is possible... more»

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Price is quite high, so if it is really possible to use other solutions (e.g. you do not have strict requirements for... more»

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

It is hard to say what our clients had been using before. It is safe to say that this was their first option for... more»

What other advice do I have?

I rate it an eight out of 10. It is definitely the best RDBMS I have ever worked with, in the sense of building a data... more»

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