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Kovair Data Lake vs OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Kovair Data Lake
Ranking in Data Warehouse
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
OpenText Analytics Database...
Ranking in Data Warehouse
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Kovair Data Lake is 1.5%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is 6.3%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)6.3%
Kovair Data Lake1.5%
Other92.2%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

LuizKazan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Solutions at Embratel
Ability to interact with teachers in real-time and manage lessons after class
The deployment process is very fast. We have prepared the product to be easily installed, and we have had successful cases where it could be implemented in less than a few weeks. Moreover, Around three or four people in a call center are involved in maintaining the solution. We have a project manager, a service manager, and at least two or three system analysts who handle the maintenance. If there are any issues, we can open a support ticket for them to address.
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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ability to interact with teachers in real-time and manage lessons after class."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are its combination of formatting, ETL, analytics, and storage capabilities."
"I can't recommend Vertica highly enough."
"We are using Vertica because it is a fast and reliable data warehousing tool and provides us a very good data compression ratio."
"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. ​"
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"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."
"Setup was very simple"
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is quick, has good compression data, and is not expensive."
 

Cons

"The solution is expensive. For future releases, it would be beneficial if Kovair Data Lake could enhance its ETL and data capabilities."
"Maybe the chat conversation feature could be improved."
"I think they need an easy client so that you can write queries easily, but it's not necessarily a weak point. I think some users would need them."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support, IDE with IntelliSense, and stored procedures which we’ve also had to build a work-around module for."
"Their support is really bad. Maybe Micro Focus has changed but they were not good before."
"Yes, there is a functionality in Vertica "Broadcast" that high the process level of our Network Switch Core. I had a serious problem with this because I interrupted the network service in the company."
"I believe the installation process could be streamlined."
"The documentation could be improved with more examples of commands and step-by-step scenarios."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."
"It's an expensive product"
"Vertica is an expensive tool."
"The price is reasonable. We use a pay per license model. Firstly, you need to buy a license. After that, you mainly pay the annual support fee of around 20% or 25%. I think their prices are quite reasonable."
"Vertica has a perpetual license, but they are currently trying to convert all those licenses to subscription-based licenses on a yearly basis."
"Read the fine print carefully."
"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 for this solution is very reasonable compared to other vendors."
"The solution is free and we pay for the storage."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
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

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Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
 

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Sample Customers

HSBC, NVIDIA, APPLIED MATERIALS, Allscripts, CISCO, Honeywell
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