We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"The Vertica architecture means it can process/ingest data in parallel to reporting and analyzing because of its in-memory Write-Optimized Storage sitting alongside the analytics optimized Read-Optimized Storage."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement."
"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."
"The integration with AI has room for improvement."
"One feature, which has really benefited us, is the scalability offered by Vertica as it has enabled Pythian's clients to manage data with agility."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"Documentation has become much better, but can always use some improvement."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Vertica is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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