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Oracle Database Appliance vs. Vertica
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Oracle Database Appliance and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Featured Review
reviewer54263
An affordable solution offering a moderate level of scalability for its users
My clients are experiencing benefits from the increase in functionality or productivity compared to their previous solution since they are running... Read more →
Jelson-Ghigonetto
Powerful tool, excellent revision options, with easy depolyment
With Vertica, I am able to make changes using other Vertica features and I do not have to start the project over. The Vertica tool is very powerful... Read more →
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Pros
"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase.""The product is very light.""The most valuable feature is the performance.""I give it a nine out of 10 because it gives the customer easy access to a complete database solution within 30 minutes.""We use the solution for our Java applications.""The most valuable feature of Oracle Database Appliance is the ease of management.""The solution is simple to use and easy to maintain.""Oracle has good technical support."

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"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product.""The fast columnar store database structure allows our query times to be at least 10x faster than on any other database.""I enjoy the cybersecurity and backup features.""Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics.""Its analytics has enabled Pythian's clients to get the business insights as quick as they wanted. Its lower maintenance has also improved the ROI.""Vertica gives knowledgeable users and DBAs excellent tools for tuning.""We are able to integrate our Vertica data warehouse with Tableau to create numerous reports quickly and efficiently.""It's the fastest database I have ever tested. That's the most important feature of Vertica."

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Cons
"Virtualization needs improvement. It's not easy to back up the virtual machines in the Oracle VM architecture. I would also like to see native support for Veeam Backup Software.""The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface.""Oracle could improve its capacity for built-in visualization.""If we were able to use Oracle Database to create mobile apps, that would be great. I don't know multiple languages, like Java, etc. I need to learn a separate language, right now in order to do this.""The solution's initial setup is not easy.""I would like it if the scalability could be increased without having to change versions.""Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently.""I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."

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"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support.""Very bad support, I would rate it two out of 10.""Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly.""Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible.""When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow.""Limitations in group by projections is where I would like to see an improvement.""The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required.""Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Get benefit from the capacity-on-demand features. License your cores according to your licenses."
  • "Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."
  • "In regards to licensing, it is cheaper to maintain for Oracle applications, and it's an all-in-one solution."
  • "The price should be lower."
  • "You must pay for the license."
  • "The price of the solution should be less expensive. However, they will increase the price more."
  • "I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."
  • "Compared to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance is affordable."

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  • "Work with a vendor, if possible, and take advantage of more aggressive discounts at mid-fiscal year (April) and fiscal year-end (October).​"
  • "It's free up to three nodes and 1TB, and then get in contact with their sales guys."
  • "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 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."
  • "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."
  • "Read the fine print carefully."
  • "It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."
  • "The pricing and licensing depend on the size of your environment and the zone where you want to implement."

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?
    Top Answer:The product is excellent. It is simple and reliable in terms of installation and maintenance.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database A...
    Top Answer:The product is costly. However, it is the price is justifiable for the excellent technology it offers.
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    What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?
    Top Answer:They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform.
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    What do you like most about Vertica?
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?
    Top Answer:Vertica is an expensive tool.
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    What needs improvement with Vertica?
    Top Answer:In my opinion, nothing needs improvement in the solution as it is a great product. The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required. Vertica needs to increase… more »
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    Ranking
    6th
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    3,045
    Comparisons
    2,195
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    354
    Rating
    7.8
    4th
    out of 34 in Data Warehouse
    Views
    4,276
    Comparisons
    3,331
    Reviews
    10
    Average Words per Review
    353
    Rating
    8.3
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    Also Known As
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    Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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    Overview

    Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

    Vertica is a deploy-anywhere SQL database created for elasticity, speed, and advanced analytics. Vertica enables today’s busy teams to modernize their data warehouses, democratize data and analytics to enable increased access, and deploy analytics in a hybrid cloud environment. Additionally, Vertica merges how companies power their analytics by providing a scalable, open, and elastic database with numerous intuitive features.

    In today’s marketplace, organizations are experiencing continued robust growth of data volumes, and citizen data scientists’ broader use of analytics is causing many companies to re-visit and re-examine their systems in order to match the demands of an aggressive marketplace. Analytics are continually swiftly evolving. New data from social media, blogs, IoT sources, data streams, gas and electrical grids, and mobile networks is being constantly gathered in extensive data sets. This presents organizations with a new opportunity to become more data driven, and they must be able to manage the new data growth and identify the trends and sequences that can lead to both improved business opportunities and continued repeat business from their clients.

    Vertica Benefits:

    Vertica has many valuable key benefits. Some of its most useful benefits include:

    • Efficiency:  Vertica provides robust compression and intuitive impressions. This results in users requiring significantly less storage and hardware than other comparable data analytics solutions. The progressive Vertica architecture results in queries that are 10-50 times faster than other platforms while providing more storage data per server.
    • Integration: Each new iteration of Vertica is tested and certified with the latest ETL and visualization tools. It actively supports Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and popular SQL providers. All these solutions and most leading BI and visualization tools interact seamlessly, making Vertica overall a very cost-effective solution and solid business investment.
    • Cloud flexibility: With Vertica, users do not have to get locked into a single cloud vendor. Users are able to take complete advantage of the current infrastructure that is already in place. Vertica seamlessly integrates with popular public clouds, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, Alibaba, VMware clouds, and more. It also provides for easy portability across on-premise and multi-cloud environments and data lakes. Vertica designs a robust flexible platform for running a company’s analytical and computing workloads, which allows applications to run simultaneously on numerous environments in a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Vertica is able to seamlessly use public clouds and private data centers, and it grants the flexibility to switch in an instant.
    • Security: Vertica offers dynamic end-to-end security with support for partner solutions and industry-standard protocols such as Apache Sentry, AWS IAM, Kerberos, LDAP, and more. Vertica utilizes an intuitive layered security model that provides multiple security authentication authorization mechanisms. Vertica will also maintain an audit trail, natively exported to other security domains for analysis and persistence. 

    Reviews from Real Users

    “I am using Vertica for aggregations and dashboards. 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.” - Bijal S., Group Chief Technology Officer at Netcore Solutions

    “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.” - Munkhsaikhan B.,  Project Lead - Digital Transformation Unit at Bodi Electronics LLC

    Sample Customers
    LifeLock, Incarlopsa, Al Yusur Industrial Contracting
    Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm32%
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Retailer11%
    Transportation Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Media Company17%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business42%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise37%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise74%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    Oracle Database Appliance is ranked 6th in Data Warehouse with 39 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. Oracle Database Appliance is rated 8.0, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Oracle Database Appliance writes "Stable solution with opportunities for performance enhancement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Oracle Database Appliance is most compared with Oracle Exadata, VMware Tanzu Greenplum, Dremio, Actian Ingres and Azure Data Factory, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata. See our Oracle Database Appliance vs. Vertica report.

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