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OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) vs kdb+ comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

kdb+
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (39th)
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

kdb+ and OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. kdb+ is designed for Relational Databases Tools and holds a mindshare of 0.9%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica), on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 5.7% mindshare, down 7.7% since last year.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
kdb+0.9%
SQL Server10.4%
Oracle Database10.4%
Other78.3%
Relational Databases Tools
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.7%
Snowflake9.4%
Teradata8.6%
Other76.3%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

Nitin Garg - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Financial Services at Evalueserve
An easy-to-deploy solution that can be used for data ingestion and usage
I work for a fintech company where we create several strategies generally built on finance data, which are like one-time series data. We deal with huge bulk data on a daily basis, and we use kdb+ for data ingestion and usage The most valuable feature of kdb+ is the speed at which it returns the…
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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution returns data quickly, and data retrieval is fast in kdb+."
"The data warehouse has exceedingly high performance and has the ability to do large scale queries very effectively."
"A SQL-based compute platform like Vertica enables far less human overhead in operations and analytics."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"The most valuable feature is the merge function, which is essentially the upsert function, and it has become our ELT pattern because, unlike when we used the ETL tool to manage upserts, the load time is now pretty much flat relative to the volume of records processed."
"This solution has allowed us to reduce the creation of summarized tables, as the user can perform queries on the fly."
"The solution was executed quite quickly due to its columnar storage underground, which is the most valuable feature of our company"
"Partition and join back to node are easy and simple for DBAs."
 

Cons

"The solution should have a more user-friendly user interface."
"Vertica’s resource demands for RAM and I/O during load and storage were challenging for our platform."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"There have been some issues with deleting and updating data from tables."
"I would love to see direct connections to other DMSs."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"The biggest problem is the cost of cloud deployment."
"It needs to handle high concurrency short queries better as Vertica is not handling these well, and we have had to develop our own tool to help us with our dashboard."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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 pricing for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"From a cost perspective, the software is less than most of its competitors."
"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."
"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."
"Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
"It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
44%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Educational Organization
5%
Energy/Utilities Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
 

Questions from the Community

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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

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Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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