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IBM solidDB vs OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM solidDB
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (35th)
OpenText Analytics Database...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM solidDB and OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM solidDB is designed for Relational Databases Tools and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica), on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 5.8% mindshare, down 7.8% since last year.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM solidDB1.0%
SQL Server10.6%
Oracle Database10.5%
Other77.9%
Relational Databases Tools
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.8%
Snowflake9.3%
Teradata8.7%
Other76.2%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

it_user722241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
​No other solution came close to this product's speed and tech support is on a really high level
If you need local DB cache with extreme speed, then go for it, if you need something to work as a distributed cloud database, then solidDB would not be the right decision. With our Telco experience, we help with suggestions for new features and improvements of existing ones for new versions of solidDB. Also, in our labs, we do some pre-alpha testing to help them to complete some new features in the right way.
JN
consultant at tcs
Data warehousing has transformed reporting performance and now delivers near real-time insights
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is a very powerful analytic database, but like any platform, there are areas where it can improve to make daily work even smoother. Better cloud-native experience is one area for improvement. OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) was originally designed as an on-premises analytic database and later moved to cloud. Improvement opportunities include more seamless cloud-native features such as auto-scaling, serverless options, and easier cluster management. Competitors such as Snowflake and BigQuery provide more fully managed experiences. Easier UI is another area for improvement. Most administration is currently done by SQL and command line tools. An improvement opportunity would be a more modern web UI for monitoring, workload management, and troubleshooting. Faster ecosystem and community growth is needed. In short, OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) could improve in areas such as cloud-native capability, modern UI for administration, stronger real-time streaming integration, and growing its ecosystem and community. These enhancements would make it easier to manage and adopt compared to newer cloud-first analytic platforms. From a day-to-day operational perspective, there are a few areas where OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) could improve to make our work smoother. Smarter automatic projection management is needed with more intelligence, auto projection creation, automatic optimization, and reduced manual testing with better workload management. Right now, monitoring queries often requires system tables and manual analysis. Troubleshooting slow queries takes time. A modern real-time dashboard showing query bottlenecks and resource users would enable quick detection. The impact could be faster issue resolution and less time spent debugging performance. Storage native interaction with modern data tools is also important. In short, from a day-to-day perspective, improvements in automatic projection optimization, better workload monitoring dashboard, easier schema evolution, and stronger modern tool integration would significantly reduce manual tuning effort and improve developer productivity. While OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is very powerful, these enhancements would make it more efficient for the analytics team.

Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Memory cache DB and carrier grade high availability, best fit to Telco demands."
"I found the columnar storage, which increases performance of sequential record access, to be the most valuable feature."
"Vertica handles analytics and large queries extremely well — very high performance — and on top of all of these features, Vertica has a very low total cost ownership."
"We use the solution because it is very good, you can make interconnections with anything to collect the data, any type of data."
"Vertica is an excellent data warehouse platform."
"After upgrading to latest version, VBR backup used to take more than one week to back up 70 TB of data and now it is taking about 48 hours."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"Data Warehouse response times have decreased of one order of magnitude with respect to the previous solution (SQL Server + Oracle)."
"We are trying to data mine customer event data, and having the ability to invoke analytic functions without having to write self-join SQL statements is just brilliant."
 

Cons

"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."
"Ability to use analytic functions in where clauses, being able to use aliases in the where and order by clauses will make query writing/reading a lot easier."
"Better feedback from installation. I would like to see more meaningful errors returned and more graceful handling of those."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
"The explain plans are very difficult to read and understand; for one complex query the explain plan I printed out took in excess of 32 A4 pages and no visual tools were available that I could find."
"Whatever is out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"I'm concerned that HP Enterprise has sold their software business, and worry about future investment to enhance predictive/machine-learning capabilities."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."
"It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
"The price is reasonable. We use a pay per license model. Firstly, you need to buy a license. After that, you mainly pay the annual support fee of around 20% or 25%. I think their prices are quite reasonable."
"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."
"It's an expensive product"
"It's difficult today to compete with open-source solutions. In these areas, there is a lot of competition and the price of this solution is a bit pricy."
"The solution is relatively cost-effective."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is limited because the organization handled the licensing and pricing as well as the cost setup.
What needs improvement with Vertica?
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is already doing great. There could be a community which could have been much more advanced and more people can be engaged so that any kind of questions, queri...
What is your primary use case for Vertica?
The main use case for OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is that we have the Hive and a Hadoop layer for data availability, and Vertica serves as a big data solution. Within a Hive table, OpenTe...
 

Also Known As

solidDB
Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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