SAP SQL Anywhere vs Vertica comparison

The compared SAP and OpenText solutions aren't in the same category. SAP is ranked #17 in SQL , with an average rating of 10.0, and holds a 0.8% mindshare in the category. OpenText is ranked #5 in Data Warehouse , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 8.5% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of SAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

SAP SQL Anywhere

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83% willing to recommend

Vertica

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91% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

SAP SQL Anywhere

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (17th)

Vertica

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Warehouse (5th), Cloud Data Warehouse (11th)

Mindshare comparison

SAP SQL Anywhere and Vertica aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. SAP SQL Anywhere is designed for Relational Databases Tools and holds a mindshare of 0.8%, up 0.7% compared to last year.
Vertica, on the other hand, focuses on Data Warehouse, holds 8.5% mindshare, down 8.9% since last year.

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Crewmem67

IT Consultant at College Notre Dame de Nazareth

Reliable and able to expand but needs to be more secure

It is not as good as a SQL Server. I prefer to work with the SQL Server for Microsoft or Oracle. These are better as there are some comments on SQL Anywhere that makes me feel that I'm blocked. We'd like to have them update to a new version. They should update more often. I find I can't move to a new version without running tests as there are chances of bugs that can get into my system. The initial setup is not simple or straightforward, and it took a while to deploy. It is not as secure as it could be. This is an aspect they need to improve. There needs to be more encryption.

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T Venkatesh

Deputy Manager at ICICIBANK Ltd

Processes query faster through multiple systems simultaneously, but it could support different data types

We use the solution for various tasks, including preparing data marts and generating offers. It helps extract data based on rules from the policy team and provides insights to enhance business operations. We also analyze transactions to target customers and improve business performance The…

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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 works well in general."

"SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful."

"We've found the solution very reliable overall. It's very fast."

"The most valuable features of SAP SQL Anywhere are the ease of use and the user interface is intuitive."

"The auto-backup replication is a perfect feature. That is the feature I liked the most."

"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."

"Vertica uses advanced Azure technologies to compress raw data using indexing, allowing a large amount of data to be stored with minimal physical space. Advanced algorithms are employed in data compression."

"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."

"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."

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

"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."

"I have found the solution to be scalable."

"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."

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Cons

"SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA."

"It is not as secure as it could be."

"A problem we are experiencing now is when doing a backup in SQL 2012 and 14."

"The interface is not easy in comparison to the SQL Server. It could be more user-friendly."

"We have had some stability issues with SAP SQL Anywhere, but I am not sure if it is an application or network issue. We sometimes have a large amount of data being queried and it cannot handle it."

"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."

"The documentation of Vertica is an area with shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."

"In our company, we have faced difficulties in scaling the solution for certain use cases."

"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."

"They could improve on customer service."

"It would be great if this were a managed service in AWS."

"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"SAP SQL Anywhere is affordable."

"SQL Anywhere cost us about $400."

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

"The solution is free and we pay for the storage."

"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's difficult today to compete with open-source solutions. In these areas, there is a lot of competition and the price of this solution is a bit pricy."

"The solution is relatively cost-effective."

"It's an expensive product"

"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

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere is very helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere is affordable.

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What needs improvement with SAP SQL Anywhere?

SAP SQL Anywhere needs to incorporate functionalities like SAP S/4HANA.

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What do you like most about Vertica?

Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?

The solution is relatively cost-effective. Pricing and licensing are reasonable compared to other solutions.

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What needs improvement with Vertica?

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

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Comparisons

SQL Server vs SAP SQL Anywhere

Compared 27% of the time

Oracle Database vs SAP SQL Anywhere

Compared 20% of the time

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise vs SAP SQL Anywhere

Compared 20% of the time

SAP HANA vs SAP SQL Anywhere

Compared 20% of the time

MySQL vs SAP SQL Anywhere

Compared 13% of the time

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SQL Server vs Vertica

Compared 14% of the time

Teradata vs Vertica

Compared 12% of the time

Snowflake vs Vertica

Compared 9% of the time

Oracle Exadata vs Vertica

Compared 9% of the time

BigQuery vs Vertica

Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

Sybase SQL Anywhere

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand

Overview

SAP SQL Anywhere enables companies to develop custom mobile and IoT application and rapidly design and deploy embedded database applications. The RDBMS solutions can provide secure, reliable data management and synchronization for thousands of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) systems, and remote environments. They let business users work uninterrupted, even without a network connection.

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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

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Sample Customers

AOK Bundesverband, Surgutneftegas Open Joint Stock Company, Molson Coors Brewing Company, City of Buenos Aires, ASR Group, Citrix, EarlySense, Usha International Limited, Automotive Resources International, Wªrth Group, Takisada-Osaka Co. Ltd., Coelba, RZD Russian Railways, National Basketball Association, TALLY WEiJL

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