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OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) vs Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Analytics Database...
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (5th)
Oracle Autonomous Data Ware...
Ranking in Cloud Data Warehouse
14th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is 5.3%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is 4.7%, up from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.3%
Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse4.7%
Other90.0%
Cloud Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Kwajah Mohiuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Provides self-repair features, but the setup is complex
We use the product for online applications. We use it in the financial industry The product has self-repair features. The tool tunes itself. It separates compute from storage. We can scale storage and compute separately. The setup is complex. Oracle is a complex tool. I have been using Oracle…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"This product has enabled us to keep very large amounts of data at hand for fast querying."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) has positively impacted our organization by helping us reduce storage costs and improve reporting efficiency in our fintech company."
"I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"I found the columnar storage, which increases performance of sequential record access, to be the most valuable feature."
"The integration feature is very good because you can automate protection security automatically, restricting the access of unauthorized people."
"It is a very stable tool...It is an extremely scalable tool."
"I loved the simplicity of loading the data and simply relying on the self-tuning capabilities of ADW."
"I like the fact that the solution is self-patching, that it's running machine-learning generally across its logs all the time in order to identify any issues and to self-repair."
"I really like the auto-tuning, auto-scaling, and the automatic load balancing and query tuning in the system."
"The solution integrates well with Power BI."
"The performance and scalability are awesome."
"The analytics have been very good. We've found them to be quite useful."
 

Cons

"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"There is serious performance degradation for large datasets."
"We can’t use Vertica as a transactional database because it is unable to handle lot of transactions."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"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."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"We had confronted couple of issues during Vertica upgrades for which we do align with your support group."
"The setup is complex."
"Ease of interconnectivity could be improved by which I mean setting up the VPN access and the like from on-premises to cloud."
"They should make the solution more user-friendly."
"Sometimes the solution works differently between the cloud and on-premises. It needs to be more consistent and predictable."
"The installation process is complex. Oracle can make the installation process better."
"I would like to see Application Express and Oracle R Enterprise fully supported, and I would like to see Oracle Data Mining supported as a front end."
"The solution lacks visibility options."
"One of the major problem is creating custom tablespace. The ADB serverless option doesn't support custom tablespace creation, which could cause issues during on-premise database migration that requires specifically named tablespace. There should be an option to create customized tablespace."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
"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"
"Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
"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."
"Read the fine print carefully."
"From a cost perspective, the software is less than most of its competitors."
"The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."
"The licensing cost of the product can vary since you can integrate it very easily with other products or other cloud products...You pay as you use it, so it is not yearly or monthly payments to be made toward Oracle."
"The price depends on the configuration we choose."
"ROI is high."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the pricing an eight."
"We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"In terms of architecture and pricing structure, I feel it is a little bit costly compared to Azure. It's fine compared to RedShift, but compared to Azure, it's a bit pricey when you calculate for one TB storage plus around five hours of reporting with the frequency of 1TB data. The cost adds up, making Oracle a bit expensive."
"The solution is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Media Company
8%
Insurance Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We pay approximately $70,000 per month. The cost includes maintenance and support.
What needs improvement with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
Optimization should be better. The SQLs are sometimes very slow. I also noticed that Java is not supported, which is not ideal.
What is your primary use case for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse?
We are using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for analytics in my company.
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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Sample Customers

Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
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