OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) vs SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise comparison

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The compared OpenText and SAP solutions aren't in the same category. OpenText is ranked #7 in Data Warehouse , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 5.6% mindshare in the category. SAP is ranked #18 in SQL , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of SAP users who would recommend it.

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85% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Analytics Database...

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (7th), Cloud Data Warehouse (12th)

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (18th)

Mindshare comparison

OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) and SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) is designed for Data Warehouse and holds a mindshare of 5.6%, down 6.8% compared to last year.
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on Relational Databases Tools, holds 1.6% mindshare, up 1.0% since last year.

Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica)	5.6%
Snowflake	9.2%
Teradata	8.7%
Other	76.5%

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Relational Databases Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise	1.6%
SQL Server	10.3%
Oracle Database	10.2%
Other	77.9%

Relational Databases Tools

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Jitendrak Naik

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.

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reviewer2784705

Senior Advisor at a government with 10,001+ employees

Long term database experience has supported OLTP workloads and delivers reliable cross platform migrations

SAP is not putting money into modernizing SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. One of the things I discovered on the last project I was on was that they did not incorporate the Intel new instruction set in SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. Intel has augmented its instruction set referred to as new instructions. They did that to make conversion easier. When you migrate SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise cross-platform, you go through a process where it converts the character set. If you are going from AIX to Linux or from Solaris to Linux, Linux is referred to as Little Endian, while AIX or Solaris are considered Big Endian. This is determined by how the product stores data. The word size of these processors is 32 bits long. If you start numbering from the little end, it is referred to as Little Endian. If you start numbering from the big end, it is called Big Endian. To migrate a SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise database from a Big Endian setup like AIX or Solaris to migrate to a Big Endian setup on an Intel, the operating system determines whether it is Little Endian or Big Endian. When you migrate from Big Endian to Little Endian, the database has to go through a character set conversion, and some of these databases are quite large with gigabytes and gigabytes of data. They have to do a character set conversion to the existing database before they do anything else. The worst part is that you have to rebuild all the indexes when you do that. When you switch endianness of the database, you have to rebuild all the indexes. It will automatically do that for system tables, but for actual user databases, you have to rebuild all your indexes, and it takes a long time. SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise is a relational database and is the predecessor of Microsoft SQL Server. All that functionality that Microsoft SQL Server had came from essentially SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. The problem with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise these days is it is not expanding its place in the marketplace or expanding its position in the marketplace. A lot of companies have migrated away from SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. It works fairly well, but the problem is SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise was architected to be an OLTP engine and is now doing things for larger databases that were not in its original intended purpose. The endianness of the RDBMS is a major impediment to continuing to use SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise. You have a multi-gigabyte database, and it will go through a conversion process in a single-threaded fashion, and then you have to rebuild the indexes. Rebuilding the indexes is lengthy and time-consuming. The part of the conversion process that is concerned with conversion of the character set is single-threaded. You may have eight cores on your machine or virtual machine and only one can be used in the conversion process. There is another problem with the whole thing in that it will sometimes not operate properly. Under certain workloads, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise will become overwhelmed. When you convert it, it does not operate properly in all circumstances. The root cause of that is that SAP in its desire to save money and desire to orphan the product has not recompiled or redeveloped the product to take advantage of the Intel new instruction set. Other relational databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server have the same issue to deal with, but with those platforms, they are taking advantage of the new instruction set. There are some additional Intel instruction sets or instructions in their Intel instruction set. With SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, they did not bother to incorporate support for the new instruction set instructions. In certain circumstances, the database does not operate properly. It is unable to do what it needs to do. If you do your research and go on the internet and see what happens with Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server, what comes back is that it takes 4% longer to perform a lot of the instructions. When you are using the new instruction set, it adds 4% to the runtime of the database.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."

"Its projections and encoding are excellent tools for tuning large volumes."

"The feature of the product that is most important is the speed. I needed a columnar database, and its speed is what it's built to do, and so that's what really does differentiate Vertica from its competitors."

"OpenText Analytics Database (Vertica) has impacted my organization a lot in terms of driving the key results and giving the key insights to the leadership, and through those data points, a good amount of decisions have been made which was really helpful and impactful at an organizational level."

"We could run group by queries thousand of times faster, we are able to test more models and improve accuracy."

"Before we used Vertica we used another columnar database which turned out to be very unstable and its performance was inconsistent, Vertica turned that around, to the point that it is now our go-to database."

"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."

"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."

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"The financials is the most valuable feature for us in operational terms because we deal with a lot of services and SAP has integrated everything for us, both financial reporting and operations."

"Sufficient, robust, power DB."

"SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise was basically as good as its rivals in my experience."

"This is a wonderful database that is, in my opinion, underrated."

"It's user-friendly, especially in the logistics field."

"I like that SAP ASE can match code and the database index to index data in the programming language. There are many other valuable features, such as the table buffer, tuning, and various control agents like dispatcher. SAP ASE can handle many different data types, including views, domains, data elements, structures, objects, and various table types that are most useful in the application. Its modularization technique is also handy."

"This is a wonderful database that is, in my opinion, underrated. Users are able to get the most out of my experience by taking advantage of its centralized environment."

"It's pretty good at handling a large number of transactions, which is critical for a banking client."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."

"Node recovery is very inconsistent and impacts performance."

"The product could improve by adding support for a wider variety of data types and enhancing features to better compete with other databases."

"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."

"It needs to handle high concurrency short queries better as Vertica is not handling these well, and we have had to develop our own tool to help us with our dashboard."

"I think it's starting to get a little expensive."

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"I think that the solution needs to be positioned better within the market as it appears as though the Adaptive Server is being left out of the SAP scope."

"In my opinion, product support is not that great from SAP because they have already declared the end-of-date for SAP ASE. They will be stopping product support."

"The overall performance of the product is an area where the tool has certain shortcomings and needs to improve."

"The solution should improve view partitioning. The documentation is very confined and available only for users. Distributors also would like access to it."

"Cost-wise, SAP is still expensive compared to other available products."

"When we acquire a new project that is sometimes related to data migrations, after getting those data, there are lots of deadlocks happening."

"SAP should refine its debugging method, and the process needs to be a little faster. It should use more Pragmas and fewer pseudocomments. I would like if SAP added more features based on advanced technologies, like artificial intelligence and voice control. The modularization and if-else techniques could also incorporate the latest technology to code and solve complex problems. The SAP Editor should be more elaborative, and it should allow many more types of statements for all uses."

"Because the solution is customized. we do occasionally face unique bugs. There are always some changes that need to be made here and there."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am aware that we have licensed it, but I have no knowledge of its cost."

"Read the fine print carefully."

"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."

"The price of Vertica is less expensive than some competitors, such as Teradata."

"Vertica has a perpetual license, but they are currently trying to convert all those licenses to subscription-based licenses on a yearly basis."

"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."

"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."

"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."

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"The licensing cost for ASE is pretty low."

"I rate SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise's pricing a six out of ten."

"Price-wise, the product is worth it since one needs very less infrastructure to use it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	29
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	43

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	11

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.

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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...

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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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise?

From a pricing perspective, I would say the solution is fairly priced. In Oracle, you have two or three databases at most on one machine. In SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, one machine can have mul...

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What needs improvement with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise?

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What is your primary use case for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise?

I have worked with SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise IQ, and Replication Server. I also worked with SQL Anywhere at one point. SAP acquired Sybase at one point, and the...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand

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Overview

OpenText Analytics Database Vertica is known for its fast data loading and efficient query processing, providing scalability and user-friendliness with a low cost per TB. It supports large data volumes with OLAP, clustering, and parallel ingestion capabilities.

OpenText Analytics Database Vertica is designed to handle substantial data volumes with a focus on speed and efficient storage through its columnar architecture. It offers advanced performance features like workload isolation and compression, ensuring flexibility and high availability. The database is optimized for scalable data management, supporting data scientists and analysts with real-time reporting and analytics. Its architecture is built to facilitate hybrid deployments on-premises or within cloud environments, integrating seamlessly with business intelligence tools like Tableau. However, challenges such as improved transactional capabilities, optimized delete processes, and better real-time loading need addressing.

What features define OpenText Analytics Database Vertica?

Fast Data Loading: Quickly ingests large data volumes.
Columnar Storage: Optimizes storage efficiency and speed.
OLAP Support: Provides robust analytics capabilities.
Advanced Compression: Enhances storage efficiency and performance.
Parallel Data Ingestion: Enables faster data processing.
Fault Tolerance: Ensures high availability and reliability.

What benefits should users expect?

Cost Efficiency: Low cost per TB is advantageous.
Scalability: Accommodates growing data needs seamlessly.
Integration Flexibility: Works well with BI tools like Tableau.
Real-Time Reporting: Delivers immediate insights for decision-making.

OpenText Analytics Database Vertica's implementation spans industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunications. It serves as a central data warehouse offering scalable management, high-speed processing, and geospatial functions. Companies benefit from its capacity to integrate machine learning and operational reporting, enhancing analytical capabilities.

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SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise delivers customizable operations and reliable OLTP features crucial for banking, being resource-efficient and SQL-capable while maintaining high security and performance standards, though updates and cross-platform conversion can be challenging.

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise is tailored for environments needing secure, efficient data handling. Its OLTP capabilities make it a top choice for banking and finance by ensuring smooth transactions. While the database supports multiple data types and cloud integration, it is essential to address the need for user-friendly interfaces and better synchronization features. Although its transaction management isn't as competitive compared to Oracle and PostgreSQL, its SQL capabilities and security tools remain highly regarded. Users primarily utilize it for data storage, scripting, and operational management across development environments, including banking, enabling effective data manipulation and storage.

What are the standout features of SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise?

Customizable Operations: Tailored configurations for diverse business needs.
Strong OLTP Features: Efficient and swift transaction processing.
SQL Capabilities: Robust tools for SQL programming and querying.
Financial Integration: Seamlessly handles financial data and transactions.
Cloud Integration: Supports integration with cloud-based storage and services.

What benefits should users look for when evaluating SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise?

Cost Efficiency: Requires minimal resources for effective performance.
User-friendliness: Easy learning curve for new users and developers.
High Security: Strong measures to protect sensitive data.
Efficient Transaction Handling: Smooth management of complex transactions.
Reliability: Consistent performance with minimal downtime.

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise is widely implemented in banking, dealing with efficient data manipulation and storing historical data crucial for operations. It is leveraged for both financial and operational management tasks, including planning and logistics. The database's robust features extend benefits to industries requiring rigorous data management, such as development, testing, and production environments connected across banking networks, focusing on main data handling and replication tasks.

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