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OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) vs SingleStore comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Organizations achieved financial and operational gains with Vertica, reducing costs and processing time while enhancing analytics and performance.
Sentiment score
6.9
SingleStore offers cost-efficient, scalable solutions with easy setup, supporting enterprise-level transactional and analytical needs in one platform.
I saved a lot of money because the storage was on a cheaper alternative and was not directly on OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica), but on S3.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The time we used to take with our earlier databases has reduced to one-tenth of what was there earlier, which is a positive outcome that can be converted to financial metrics in terms of return on investment.
Data Engineering Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The objective was to scale as data loads with high-performing query model responses.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
OpenText Analytics Database's customer service is generally valued for expertise but has occasional response time and escalation issues.
Sentiment score
7.6
SingleStore's 24/7 proactive support is highly rated, personalized, and effective, using Zendesk for prioritization and dedicated onboarding support.
Throughout this process, customer support was outstanding, and we had a person actively supporting us from the OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) team for our use case.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Overall, our experience with OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) customer support has been good and reliable.
consultant at tcs
The customer support is very proactive and responsive twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
OpenText Vertica offers scalable, efficient data handling with robust performance, though pricing and node addition may challenge some users.
Sentiment score
8.1
SingleStore efficiently scales with minimal downtime, handling extensive queries and complex tasks, despite challenges with data growth.
We have experienced easy horizontal scaling, consistent query performance as data grew, and the ability to handle large analytic workloads.
consultant at tcs
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) has very good scalability.
Data Engineering Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) can scale to a great extent.
Analytics Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
SingleStore's scalability is high and it can be used by any size of organization and can handle any needs of any organization.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
OpenText Analytics Database offers high stability and performance, with successful migrations and minimal clustering issues ensuring user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.4
SingleStore is rated highly stable, with most downtime caused by external factors, receiving ratings between seven and ten.
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is very stable.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not seen any downtime.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Room For Improvement

OpenText Analytics Database needs improvements in community, cloud features, SQL, integration, cost efficiency, machine learning, and developer tools.
SingleStore users need improved Azure integration, better documentation, advanced SQL features, and optimized data handling and server tools.
Smarter automatic projection management is needed with more intelligence, auto projection creation, automatic optimization, and reduced manual testing with better workload management.
consultant at tcs
Projections could be made more dynamic, and if they could find a faster way to update, insert, and delete data, that would also be helpful.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) does not have a cloud-based UI that Snowflake has, which features a very good comprehensive GUI for querying and analyzing data.
Data Engineering Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Error handling needs attention. When it fails due to memory, it only indicates that but not exactly in which process it failed.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Setup Cost

OpenText Analytics Database offers flexible pricing, often cost-effective for its advanced features, despite being pricey vs. open-source solutions.
SingleStore's pricing is cost-effective for large firms with flexible cloud tiers and free on-premises licensing for startups.
The pricing for OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is somewhat on the higher side for the license.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it can be a bit expensive for startups.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Valuable Features

OpenText Analytics Database excels in fast query responses, scalability, and real-time insights, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.
SingleStore offers fast recovery, high data compression, and scalability, enhancing performance, productivity, and efficient data processing with seamless integration.
I can use it in Eon Mode in which I can store the data in cheaper storage such as Amazon S3 and have different compute nodes.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Projection and columnar storage are the most valuable features because they dramatically improve query performance and reduce the need for index management.
consultant at tcs
The best features that OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) offers are mainly the parallel processing, ETL capabilities, and the multi-cloud features which are very handy to use.
Data Engineering Associate Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone.
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Analytics Database...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (6th), Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
SingleStore
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (17th), Vector Databases (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) and SingleStore aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is designed for Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 5.0%, down 8.3% compared to last year.
SingleStore, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 2.9% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.0%
Snowflake10.2%
Teradata9.0%
Other75.8%
Data Warehouse
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SingleStore2.9%
Amazon RDS12.6%
MongoDB Atlas12.1%
Other72.4%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user1272297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Special Adviser Strategy at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 19, 2020
 

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.
Kelvin  Ben - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Honeywell
Real-time analytics has transformed daily decisions and delivers fast dashboards from streaming data
The best features SingleStore offers include fast data recovery and data compression by 80 percent. Having the information in sheets helps me to process the information quickly. Simplicity in T-SQL is another aspect I appreciate. Data recovery and sheet-based processing help my team on a day-to-day basis by enabling us to handle information efficiently. I would like to add that the data compression by 80 percent helps us in an excellent way since we are very fast in obtaining the data for our dashboards and the compression of the information is great. SingleStore has impacted my organization positively by enabling us to run low-latency analytics and model-driven use cases at scale, which is quite difficult for OLAP and OLTP databases alone. It has been very helpful because our internal clients are happy to have the data and make data-driven decisions easily. Making decisions based on data within a two-hour delay to the transactional database is excellent since we went from twenty-four hours to two hours. I think the best contribution is decision-making with data that is close to reality. Reducing that delay from twenty-four hours to two hours has significantly affected my team and business outcomes by increasing productivity. We have been able to serve all our customers, and they are very happy. We can deliver to them on time.
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Answers from the Community

it_user1272297 - PeerSpot reviewer
Special Adviser Strategy at a university with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 19, 2020
Apr 19, 2020
I haven't used SQream personally. However, if you are only considering GPU based rdbms's please check the following https://hackernoon.com/which-gpu-database-is-right-for-me-6ceef6a17505
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Russell Rothstein - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at PeerSpot
Jan 27, 2020
Morten, the most popular comparisons of SQream can be found here: https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/sqream-db-alternatives-and-competitors The top ones include Cassandra, MemSQL, MongoDB, and Vertica.
reviewer1219965 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jan 27, 2020
I haven't used SQream personally. However, if you are only considering GPU based rdbms's please check the following https://hackernoon.com/which-gpu-database-is-right-for-me-6ceef6a17505
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
5%
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise42
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Vertica?
Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability.
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) can be improved by adding some more features in analytics. OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) does not have a cloud-based UI that Snowflake has, which featu...
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Also Known As

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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