Vertica Other Solutions Considered

Sima Alexandru - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Specialis at Orion Innovation Romania

My company chose Vertica over other products since I think that all the other products we use are meant for the children in our college. I don't exactly know the reason why my company chose Vertica.

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SO
Senior Database Architect at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees

What differentiates Vertica from other competitors would probably be the ease of setup and ease of management. It can also ingest data from many sources, like Kafka, Parquet, and ORC (Apache Optimized Row Columnar). Vertica is quite flexible in how it handles its data. So mostly the flexibility and the ease of management separate it from most other products.  

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it_user514728 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DBA at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before choosing this product, other options were considered, e.g., Kognitio.

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March 2024
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SK
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa

I have evaluated Postgres.

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it_user453681 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Manager, Vertica ASE Certified DBA at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Vertica and Greenplum, and chose Vertica due to cost and a number of existing use cases that were nearly identical to ours.

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BD
System Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I did not really look at any competition. Basically, it's like I said, we're an HP shop and a lot of their applications are going to a Vertica database for its storage and processing of data. We were doing a lot of Oracle, but Oracle was actually moving towards Vertica in our environment.

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AG
Director at Decision Science

We evaluated Exasol, but it came out to be too expensive for the use case.

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it_user464571 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Warehouse Architect at a media company

We did a PoC between competitors and Vertica. Throughout the whole PoC, Vertica performed much better in terms of its stability, flexibility, performance and ease of use. We didn’t encounter any problems or downsides, and it didn’t matter what we tested. At that stage, just the Management Console had some minor issues, but even those are now fixed and are not important for the core database engine. I would name HPE Vertica as the most mature columnar database with a best of class data storage and query engine.

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PI
Vertica Database Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

At a previous company, we looked at Greenplum as an alternative to Vertica. For our specific use-case, Vertica won the majority of our benchmark tests. If we had a design that required lots of updates and deletes, we may have compromised and gone with Greenplum.

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it_user102651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Software Engineer - Theatrical Global at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated various other solutions but we chose Vertica because its SQL implementation is very similar to PostgreSQL, and therefore it saved us lot of development time re-writing SQL queries. Vertica seems to be one of the few columnar database which can handle both ETL/Batch jobs and OLAP queries simultaneously. We stream data into Vertica from RDBMS frequently than what is typically recommended for Columnar databases.

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it_user114084 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at a tech services company

I evaluated Teradata, and another, but I didn't like either of them, not for what we needed.

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it_user450444 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Architect / Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We evaluated Netezza and Teradata alongside Vertica.

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it_user70134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior business Intelligence consultant at Asociación SevillaUP

Netezza, but I didn't like it. For no particular reason, but the feeling was not right. Redshift - I was not impressed by the performance. Google Big Query - we tried it.

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JG
Creator and Manager of Intelligent Water Loss Management Models at Qintess

We use another product called IDOL and use them both together as our solution. Sometimes you use both or sometimes you use each one separately. The two products are machine learning products but with different uses. IDOL has a more developed application and is much bigger than in Vertica. 

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it_user505299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Yes, Hadoop / Spark, SQL Server.

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it_user515835 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Engineering and Arcitect - Big Data, Data Science and Cloud Computing at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before choosing this product, we evaluated Netezza and ParAccel.

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JS
Sr. SW Engineer - Databases with 201-500 employees

2012 - Detailed evaluation including benchmarks of: Greenplum, Vectorwise.

2017 - Evaluation of features and initial communication with vendors, if needed, for: Greenplum, EXASOL, Amazon Redshift, Spark, SAP HANA, IBM dashDB, Snowflake, Azure SQL.

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it_user531828 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software and Data Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated both AWS Redshift and Google BigQuery.

Redshift didn’t fulfill our expectations regarding query latency at high scale (over 60 TB). Regarding BigQuery, we found the pricing structure pretty complex (payment per query and data processed) and harder to control.

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it_user158742 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Software Development at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We evaluated SQL Server and Teradata.

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it_user505218 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure, Data Center and PMO Coordinator at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
it_user692295 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Dev Lead - Analytics Data Storage at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did evaluate mostly SAP HANA and SQL Server PDW back in 2013, along with a bunch of OSS solutions.

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it_user539496 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Operations/SRE at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

MonetDB, Cassandra, Amazon RedShift.

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it_user505863 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vertica DBA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user505317 - PeerSpot reviewer
DW Admin at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There was a proof of concept for a number of technologies but I wasn't involved in those.

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it_user703536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Leader / Business Intelligence Consultant with 11-50 employees

Infobright and MonetDB.

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it_user663669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructre Manager - Senior Maintenance Manager with 10,001+ employees

They did a good PoC and we were impressed with Vertica. However, when we implemented, it was nightmare with bad support.

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it_user411165 - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data, Analytics and Hadoop Expert, Vertica DBA (Technical Leader), Architecture Group at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have evaluated numerous competing products. HP Vertica was chosen for the top performance of aggregative queries.

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it_user540294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of Technical Staff at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated a number of open-source and proprietary databases, as well as an in-house solution. Our PoC has been put on hold and we have not made final decision on a solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Vertica
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Vertica. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.