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We performed a comparison between SingleStore and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Question: Which is the best RDMBS solution for big data?
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Pros
"The ability to store data in memory is a standout feature, enhanced by robust failover mechanisms.""The product can automatically reinstall and reconfigure in case of a shutdown.""The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed.""The product's initial setup phase was pretty straightforward, with no complex processes.""The most valuable feature is the ability to create pipelines, streamline and extract data from the pipelines.""It's a distributed relational database, so it does not have a single server, it has multiple servers. Its architecture itself is fast because it has multiple nodes to distribute the workload and process large amounts of data.""MemSQL supports the MySQL protocol, and many functions are similar, so the learning curve is very short."

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"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. ​""The performance is very good and the aggregate records are fast.""I don't need any special hardware. I can use commodity hardware, which is nice to have in a commercial solution.""Vertica is a great product because customers can compress and code data. The infrastructure that data warehouse solutions need is a commodity server so that customers don't have to invest in infrastructure.""Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed.""I have found the solution to be scalable.""Initiate on one node, and the RPM propagates automatically to all other nodes. ​""It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."

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Cons
"It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation tasks.""We don't get good discounts in Pakistan.""Poor key distribution can significantly impact performance, requiring a backward approach in design rather than adding tables incrementally.""For new customers, it's very tough to start. Their documentation isn't organized, and there's no online training available. SingleStore is working on it, but that's a major drawback.""Having the ability to migrate servers using a single command would be extremely beneficial.""The product can be developed further to provide more appropriate output to users as it is one of the areas where there are shortcomings.""There should be more pipelines available because I think that if MemSQL can connect to other services, that would be great."

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"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow.""It should provide a GUI interface for data management and tuning.""Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be.""I have found that coding support could be simplified.""The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved.""Some of our small to medium-sized customers would like to see containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint.""In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics.""Metadata for database files scale okay, but metadata related to tables/columns/sequences must be stored on all nodes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I would advise users to try the free 128GB version."
  • "SingleStore is a bit expensive."
  • "The product's licensing is not expensive. It is comparable."
  • "Using it for analytical purposes can be cost-effective in the long run, especially in terms of infrastructure."
  • "The price of the product is okay compared to the other available solutions in the market. SingleStore is a reasonably priced product, considering the functions it offers."
  • "They have two main options: cloud installation and bare-metal installation, each with different pricing models."
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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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    Answers from the Community
    Anonymous User
    Yuval Klein - PeerSpot reviewerYuval Klein
    Real User

    SQreamDB is a GPU DB. It is not suitable for real-time oltp of course.

    Cassandra is best suited for OLTP database use cases, when you need a scalable database (instead of SQL server, Postgres)
    SQream is a GPU database suited for OLAP purposes. It's the best suite for a very large data warehouse, very large queries needed mass parallel activity since GPU is great in massive parallel workload.

    Also, SQream is quite cheap since we need only one server with a GPU card, the best GPU card the better since we will have more CPU activity. It's only for a very big data warehouse, not for small ones.

    Tristan Bergh - PeerSpot reviewerTristan Bergh
    Real User

    Your best DB for 40+ TB is Apache Spark, Drill and the Hadoop stack, in the cloud.

    Use the public cloud provider's elastic store (S3, Azure BLOB, google drive) and then stand up Apache Spark on a cluster sized to run your queries within 20 minutes. Based on my experience (Azure BLOB store, Databricks, PySpark) you may need around 500 32GB nodes for reading 40 TB of data.

    Costs can be contained by running your own clusters but Databricks manage clusters for you.

    I would recommend optimizing your 40TB data store into the Databricks delta format after an initial parse.

    Russell Rothstein - PeerSpot reviewerRussell Rothstein (PeerSpot)
    Vendor

    Morten, the most popular comparisons of SQream can be found here: https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/sqream-db-alternatives-and-competitors
    The top ones include Cassandra, MemSQL, MongoDB, and Vertica.

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The paramount advantage is the exceptional speed.
    Top Answer:Using it for analytical purposes can be cost-effective in the long run, especially in terms of infrastructure. While building an on-premise cluster incurs an initial cost for servers with ample RAM… more »
    Top Answer:There's a noteworthy consideration when it comes to collecting massive amounts of data. It is not the optimal choice for direct data collection through queries, and it's more suited for aggregation… more »
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple.
    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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    Average Words per Review
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    Rating
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    Also Known As
    Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand
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    SingleStore
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    Overview

    SingleStore is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and offers SingleStoreDB, which combines transactional, analytical, & vector data workloads in a real-time, unified, distributed SQL database that is MySQL and MongoDB wire protocol-compatible. SingleStoreDB Cloud is offered as a managed service on AWS, Google, and Azure and in private clouds including IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Red Hat OpenShift. Other partners (50+ in all) include HPE, Twingo, Data-Sleek, Datadog, and Arcion. SingleStoreDB Self-Managed runs on premise/containers/Kubernetes. SingleStore has offices in Sunnyvale, Seattle, Portland, Raleigh, Boston, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Kyiv, Hyderabad, and Singapore, with remote workers worldwide. It has hundreds of customers including 100+ Fortune 500, Forbes Global 2000, and Inc. 5000 brands across 37 verticals, with the top four being financial services and fintech; media, streaming, and telecommunications; adtech/martech/salestech; and retail/eCommerce. SingleStore platform features include Code Engine with WASM, Data API, dbt Connector, Limitless Point-in-Time Recovery, MongoDB API, Pipelines, Unlimited (Bottomless) Storage, and Workspaces.

    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
    SingleStore has hundreds of customers including 100+ Fortune 500, Forbes Global 2000, and Inc. 5000 brands across 37 verticals, with the top four being financial services and fintech; media, streaming, and telecommunications; adtech/martech/salestech; and retail/eCommerce. Sample customers include: 6Sense Akamai Technologies Arcules Armis Security Canadian Tire CARFAX Cigna Cisco Systems Comcast dailyVest Dell Technologies Digital Asset Research (DAR) Directed Technologies DirectlyApply Factors.AI Fathom Analytics FirstEnergy GAMEFAM/Silicon Digital GE Goldman Sachs Heap Hulu IMAX impact.com Kakao Kellogg Kroger LiveRamp Lumana Millennium bcp MonitorBase NBC Universal Nyris Octane Outreach Palo Alto Networks PAN HOME Questrade Saudi Telecom Company Siemens AG SiriusXM Siteimprove SK Telecom SKAI Sony Interactive Entertainment Tata Communications Limited Western Digital Corporation ZoomInfo
    Cerner, Game Show Network Game, Guess by Marciano, Supercell, Etsy, Nascar, Empirix, adMarketplace, and Cardlytics.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Media Company17%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business57%
    Large Enterprise43%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise42%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    SingleStore is ranked 6th in Database as a Service with 7 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 82 reviews. SingleStore is rated 8.8, while Vertica is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SingleStore writes "A reasonably priced product that offers good speed and seamless support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". SingleStore is most compared with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database, Teradata and MariaDB, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift and Teradata.

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