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OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) vs WP Bolt comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

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

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Analytics Database...
Ranking in Data Warehouse
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)
WP Bolt
Ranking in Data Warehouse
27th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is 5.8%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WP Bolt is 1.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)5.8%
WP Bolt1.5%
Other92.7%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

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.
it_user665328 - PeerSpot reviewer
ETL Developer at a music company with 501-1,000 employees
the most useful feature of the product is object imaging. It is the champion in the world of RDBMS.
Although they already have patches to address the instability of CORV (Create or Replace Views) CASCADE, I believe this is the area that should receive most attention. I am, however, still not sure if the patch has officially been recognised and deployed as part of their version updates. There are a few critical issues/bugs that we have experienced on our production environment, which required intervention from Kognitio. As one of Kognitio's biggest clients, their response times were quick and patches were also quick to be released to address production issues. Also, slabs management seems to be, or can be, a very hands-on tasks especially when reaching its capacity. It will be every WX2/KAP developer’s or DBA’s paradise if the product can be configured in this area to be fully/semi-automated.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It provides very fast query performance after good designs of projections."
"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."
"Setup was very simple"
"The most valuable feature is the merge function, which is essentially the upsert function, and it has become our ELT pattern because, unlike when we used the ETL tool to manage upserts, the load time is now pretty much flat relative to the volume of records processed."
"Customer Service: Excellent Technical Support: Very good"
"We can also load massive amounts of data in seconds and query it with SLA for online dashboards."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"With Vertica, I am able to make changes using other Vertica features and I do not have to start the project over."
"In the world of RDBMS, WX2/KAP is, I believe, the champion, or should be if not already!"
 

Cons

"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"Pricing could be more competitive."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"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."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
"Stability is good, however the database crashed once because a query ran against a large XML data element."
"The explain plans are very difficult to read and understand; for one complex query the explain plan I printed out took in excess of 32 A4 pages and no visual tools were available that I could find."
"It does not have the robustness or stability like of Oracle or Teradata; the upper right quadrant."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is relatively cost-effective."
"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
"The price could be cheaper and it is best to negotiate the price."
"The pricing could improve, it is a little expensive."
"The price of Vertica is less expensive than some competitors, such as Teradata."
"Vertica is an expensive tool."
"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."
"The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Company Size

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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business29
Midsize Enterprise23
Large Enterprise43
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Questions from the Community

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...
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Also Known As

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
Kognitio WX2, WX2
 

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