We performed a comparison between Exasol 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 most valuable feature of Exasol is its speed."
"We mainly chose Exasol for its performance reasons."
"The solution is hands-off; you set it up insert your data and it self tunes queries."
"Performance is a top priority, and it excels in this aspect."
"Its speed is great."
"The speed is very good compared to other databases, like SQL Server or Oracle."
"We can quickly scale the solution as it works on an MPP system."
"It is easy to scale."
"Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"The extensibility and efficiency provided by their C++ SDK."
"Its analytics has enabled Pythian's clients to get the business insights as quick as they wanted. Its lower maintenance has also improved the ROI."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. "
"It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."
"It would be beneficial if the updates would occur more often."
"It's not cloud-native so many maintenance operations require downtime."
"The only area where we found it could improve was in custom role creation and security, and it was difficult to work with."
"They should improve the security features for MPP processing."
"You have to install Exasol drivers, and it's not easy to find or implement a driver into different systems."
"They don't talk very well to with other products when it comes to connectivity. Integration is lacking."
"There are limited resources available to help me resolve the issue with Exasol."
"Lacks a cloud-based platform."
"I have found that coding support could be simplified."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"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 integration with AI has room for improvement."
"They could improve on customer service."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
Exasol is ranked 12th in Relational Databases Tools with 8 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. Exasol is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Exasol writes "Fast query processing and easy-to-store all the data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Exasol is most compared with SQL Server, SAP HANA, Oracle Database In-Memory, MySQL and Oracle Database, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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