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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 (35th)
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 (11th)
 

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 1.0%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica), on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 5.8% mindshare, down 7.8% since last year.
Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM solidDB1.0%
SQL Server10.6%
Oracle Database10.5%
Other77.9%
Relational Databases Tools
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.8%
Snowflake9.3%
Teradata8.7%
Other76.2%
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."
"Customer Service: Excellent Technical Support: Very good"
"Customer Service: Great Technical Support: Great"
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"Query Performance."
"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."
"The service and support from Vertica was excellent. Every tech and sales rep I dealt with was very responsive, pleasant, and helped me solve any engineering issues we ran into in very short order."
"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."
"Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. ​"
 

Cons

"Data replication and data distribution between multiple nodes definitely have room for improvement here."
"vbr.py needs to be improve to support diff no of nodes source to target."
"There have been some issues with deleting and updating data from tables."
"Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10."
"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."
"If you're working in a small business, it will tend to overtake most of their budget from a cost perspective because you need so many servers, so much storage, to be able to handle all that stuff."
"Node recovery is very inconsistent and impacts performance."
"Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."
"More Machine Learning algorithms--Random Forest for sure!"
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
"I think it's starting to get a little expensive. Open source products are starting to get more robust, so I think that's something that they need to start looking at in terms of licensing."
"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
"The price could be cheaper and it is best to negotiate the price."
"The first TB is free and you can use all the Vertica features. After 1TB you have to pay for licensing. The product is worth it, but be aware of this condition, and plan. The compression ratio is explained in the documentation."
"The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."
"Read the fine print carefully."
"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
 

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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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