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IBM solidDB vs OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM solidDB
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (39th)
OpenText Analytics Database...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Data Warehouse (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM solidDB and OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM solidDB is designed for Relational Databases Tools and holds a mindshare of 1.4%, up 0.4% compared to last year.
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica), on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 6.5% mindshare, up 6.3% since last year.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM solidDB1.4%
Oracle Database10.3%
SQL Server10.2%
Other78.1%
Relational Databases Tools
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)6.5%
Teradata9.1%
Snowflake8.8%
Other75.6%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

it_user722241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
​No other solution came close to this product's speed and tech support is on a really high level
If you need local DB cache with extreme speed, then go for it, if you need something to work as a distributed cloud database, then solidDB would not be the right decision. With our Telco experience, we help with suggestions for new features and improvements of existing ones for new versions of solidDB. Also, in our labs, we do some pre-alpha testing to help them to complete some new features in the right way.
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.

Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Memory cache DB and carrier grade high availability, best fit to Telco demands."
"We're just now getting into Vertica, but it allows us to store and access big data very quickly."
"It is enterprise ready and a hugely cheaper option than some, and in like-for-like comparisons between HP Vertica and Oracle Exadata (workload and timings), Vertica was faster than Oracle in all but the biggest and most complex of queries."
"Massive data ingestion performance."
"It is the foundation of our new Data Warehouse platform."
"We use the solution because it is very good, you can make interconnections with anything to collect the data, any type of data."
"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. ​"
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
"Since we implemented the Vertica solution, it is much less effort to maintain scalability."
 

Cons

"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"Stability, scalability (3 node Community Edition) and backup/restore all need to be worked on."
"It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning."
"Projections take up a lot of space and hence, compression can be improved."
"Even with some optimization (adding projections for merge joins and grouped by pipelined), it's still taking a longer time than a Spark job in some cases."
"It's hard to make it slow for a small data volume. For large volumes, it's hard to make it work. It's also hard to make it faster, and to make it scale."
"Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."
"More Machine Learning algorithms--Random Forest for sure!"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price could be cheaper and it is best to negotiate the price."
"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."
"The pricing for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"The pricing depends on the license model because there are several. It depends on the client, but it's cheaper than other solutions. I think it's cheap for all the functionality and robustness. It's not very expensive to deploy."
"The solution is free and we pay for the storage."
"The price of Vertica is less expensive than some competitors, such as Teradata."
"It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
"It's difficult today to compete with open-source solutions. In these areas, there is a lot of competition and the price of this solution is a bit pricy."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
 

Questions from the Community

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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...
 

Also Known As

solidDB
Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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