We performed a comparison between CockroachDB and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The subset of SQL that my client is using is completely supported."
"The tool's most valuable feature is node syncing, which takes only 0.54 milliseconds."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its resiliency features and the geo-partitioning capabilities."
"CockroachDB is highly reliable."
"The initial setup and deployment are simple."
"The product has valuable security features."
"The availability and the easy to use feature is the most valuable. The documentation is also good."
"The best feature of CockroachDB is the ability to keep the nodes in different locations."
"It has improved my organization's functionality and performance."
"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good."
"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"Vertica's most outstanding features are the compression rates achieved and the speed of access of high volume data."
"Vertica is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"The initial setup and pricing could be improved."
"The closer they can make CockroachDB to being completely compatible with Postgres, the better. It's almost compatible, but not completely. If it was, it would be nice to just be able to use Postgres libraries without any fiddling."
"CockroachDB needs to improve store processes."
"Cockroach does not support all types of protocols. I need to improve it myself to support a CouchDB on my network."
"We are looking for more features to support distributed high availability and geo-partitioning."
"The product must improve its disaster recovery features."
"I find the serverless offer a bit confusing."
"The platform could be more extensible."
"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."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"They could improve on customer service."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
CockroachDB is ranked 9th in Relational Databases Tools with 10 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. CockroachDB is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CockroachDB writes "Open source with extensive documentation and a University for training". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". CockroachDB is most compared with Oracle Database, MySQL, Citus Data, Amazon Aurora and SQL Server, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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