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What is OpenText Vertica?

The Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica is owned and supported by OpenText.

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7 out of 10
December 15, 2019
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What is OpenText Vertica?

The Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica is owned and supported by OpenText.

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Vertica has become a crucial tool for businesses looking to analyze large volumes of data for various use cases. Users have found it particularly valuable as a data warehouse for analyzing internal business data and marketing results of clients. Its ability to handle large data sizes enables analysis at a level that would not have been possible otherwise. Uber, for example, has successfully employed Vertica for their data analytics needs. Additionally, companies have created Vertica-based data marts to provide analytics insights and support data science across their entire organizations.

One key advantage of Vertica is its complementary nature with other technologies like Hadoop. By leveraging its high scale capabilities, Vertica enhances data efforts when used alongside Hadoop. The software also serves as the main data warehouse, acting as a source for analytic reports and facilitating data analysis activities. Interestingly, users have discovered non-traditional applications for Vertica, utilizing it as a powerful data processing engine to solve problems at scale. For instance, in the entertainment industry, Vertica is instrumental in rendering data and performing big data analysis tasks efficiently.

The speed of Vertica is highly beneficial to users, allowing them to quickly complete ad-hoc queries and conduct more in-depth analyses. This speed sets Vertica apart from competitors in the highly ingested, fast query analytics niche, including platforms like Teradata, Greenplum, Exadata, and Netezza. Moreover, Vertica excels in handling large amounts of data ingestion quickly, making it a reliable tool for organizations dealing with vast quantities of information.

Furthermore, Vertica serves as an analytics database that can handle real-time streaming data from sources like Apache Kafka. This capability enables organizations to gain near real-time customer insights for their consumer-facing web portals and mobile applications. Overall, users have come to rely on Vertica as an essential analytics database for reporting, ad-hoc queries, and more in-depth analyses across a wide range of industries and use cases.

Impressive Analytical Querying Capabilities: Several reviewers have praised Vertica for its impressive analytical querying capabilities. Users have found the built-in analytical functions to be powerful, allowing them to perform complex analyses across terabytes of data. This feature has enabled users to gain interesting insights and make data-driven decisions.

Efficient Data Ingestion: Many users have highlighted Vertica's efficient data ingestion process as a major advantage. According to reviewers, billions of rows can be easily sent to Vertica via the WOS system, and the data is ready for immediate use. This streamlined data ingestion process not only saves time but also enables quick analysis, enhancing productivity.

Scalability and Performance: The scalability and performance of Vertica have been widely appreciated by reviewers. Users have mentioned that Vertica can scale reasonably well up to 10-20 nodes and handle hundreds of terabytes of data effectively. Additionally, many reviewers consider Vertica as one of the fastest query engines available, with tables containing billions of rows still delivering speedy results for analytical tasks.

Deletion Process: Users have expressed frustration with the deletion process in Vertica, stating that it does not fully delete when prompted and can cause delays in other processes. Some users have reported this issue.

Permissions on Table Manipulation: Reviewers find the permissions on table manipulation lacking in Vertica, as only the owner of the table can edit its structure. This makes it difficult to set up true administrators who can maintain each other's work. Several users have mentioned this limitation.

Handling Petabyte-Scale Data: Vertica struggles to handle petabyte-scale data according to user feedback. It starts to crumble beyond hundreds of terabytes of data. Numerous reviewers have noted this scalability issue.

Users have made several recommendations based on their experience with Vertica. The most common recommendations are:

  1. Proper Testing and Preparation: Users suggest that before releasing a major version of Vertica, it is crucial to have thorough testing in place. This ensures that any potential issues or bugs are identified and resolved prior to deployment.

  2. Follow Vendor Configuration Instructions: It is advised to closely follow the vendor's configuration instructions when setting up Vertica. This helps ensure optimal performance and stability of the tool.

  3. Training and Familiarity: Users recommend sending database administrators (DBAs) for training and studying the SQL limitations of Vertica. It is important to have a good understanding of Vertica and its capabilities to effectively leverage the tool for solving specific business problems.

It is important to note that while Vertica is highly recommended for data warehousing, solving Big Data solutions, and analytical data warehousing, users also suggest considering other database systems if there is not a significant amount of data that needs to be accessed quickly or if a more common/easier-to-set-up system would suffice.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vertica serves a database niche that is highly ingested with fast query analytics (MPP). It competes with platforms such as Teradata, Greenplum, Exadata, and Netezza. It does not compete with pseudo column stores such as a SQL Server column store, as those types of "features" are immature and still built on an OLTP platform. Vertica is quick with a large amount of data ingestion.
  • Column-oriented storage organization, which increases performance of queries.
  • Compression, which reduces storage costs and I/O bandwidth. High compression is possible because columns of homogeneous datatypes are stored together and because updates to the main store are batched.
  • Shared nothing architecture, which reduces system contention for shared resources and allows gradual degradation of performance in the face of hardware failure.
  • Easy to use and maintain through automated data replication, server recovery, query optimization, and storage optimization.
  • Support for standard programming interfaces ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, and OLEDB.
  • Integration to Hadoop with the capability to perform analytics on ORC and Parquet files directly.
  • Per TB licensing. Users have to worry about license usage at all times which becomes a challenge with you are working in an organization with huge amounts of data.
  • The geospatial functionality could be designed better.
  • Support for containerization and flexibility from the deployment standpoint.
Its performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integration into enterprise big data environments is a plus. Queries are not optimized compared to Teradata and sometimes it takes down the database with very limited detail. Vertica Just cannot deal with scaling data, it starts to crumble beyond 100s of TB of data.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's used by couple of departments. I work in the entertainment industry, so it is used to deal with the rendering data. It is also used for big data analysis.
  • After the initial setup and performance tuning phase, Vertica database cluster pretty much runs on its own. We haven't had too much maintenance to do.
  • When we had to scale up the cluster from 6 nodes to 12 nodes, it was an easy task.
  • At one time, because of some issues with a server, we had to take a node out and could do it on the fly.
  • One time, one of the nodes wasn't coming up because of some ambiguity with the local data. Vertica wasn't able to fix it by itself and we were trying to remove the node out of the database and we couldn't do it. It would be great if that could be addressed. Luckily when we rebooted the whole server, some of the dead transaction got flushed because of which vertica was able to recover and the node came up.
It's definitely good for working with larger amount of data and easy scaling. In my experience, Veritca is the only cluster that I have dealt with terabytes of data.
December 15, 2019

Vertica Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vertica forms the analytics database that takes in realtime streaming data (from Apache Kafka) and is used to provide customer insights in near real-time. It is used for the consumer-facing web portal and mobile applications.
  • It is able to intake real-time streaming data without much pre-processing and latency.
  • Easy to integrate with real-time streaming ingestion engine.
  • Vertica does not perform well when you have a lot of schemata.
  • The management console including GUI is lacking features and can be improved with features that are typical of a database.
Vertica is well suited when latency from incoming data is key and you need Strickland timing guarantees to process the real-time streaming data. It is very well suited if you are using Confluent/Apache Kafka as the set-up and install is super easy and there best practice documentation available for it. It is less appropriate where you are looking at complex queries and schemas.
December 04, 2017

Analysis at Scale

Eva Donaldson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vertica is our data warehouse. We use it for analysis of our internal business as well as the marketing results of our clients. Due to the size of our data, without Vertica analysis at this level would not be possible.
  • Analytical querying due to built in analytical functions that actually perform across TB of data.
  • Ingestion of data. We can send billions of rows to Vertica easily via the WOS system and it is ready for use immediately.
  • Efficient storage of data. What raw is TB of data, once ingested into Vertica only takes up GB of disk space.
  • Management! The management console is intuitive and useful making keeping an eye on your cluster easier than any other product like this I have used.
  • Deletion is tough in Vertica. Because one of our larger fact tables is rapidly changing we have a need to run purges on a regular basis. Those purges can take a day and delays the other processes while that is happening. It would be nice if when I hit delete, it really deleted.
  • Permissions on table manipulation is a bit lacking. In order to edit a table structure you have to be the owner, ie the creator, of the table. It means setting up true administrators who can maintain each other's work is tough.
Vertica as a data warehouse to deliver analytics in-house and even to your client base on scale is not rivaled anywhere in the market. Frankly, in my experience it is not even close to equaled. Because it is such a powerful data warehouse, some people attempt to use it as a transactional database. It certainly is not one of those. Individual row inserts are slow and do not perform well. Deletes are a whole other story. RDBMS it is definitely not. OLAP it rocks.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Vertica as an analytics database for reporting, ad-hoc queries, regular reporting and more in-depth analyses. It is primarily used for querying by the analytics org and indirectly, through Looker, by the entire company. Vertica is most helpful because of its speed. Ad-hoc queries and analyses can be completed relatively quickly.
  • Speed. Even with tables with 20 Billion+ rows, Vertica performs reasonably well.
  • Analytical functions. Some of the advanced functions in Vertica enable/facilitate interesting and complex analyses.
  • Reliability. We never run into reliability issues with Vertica.
  • Data size limitations. Beyond a certain threshold Vertica breaks down. Because of this, we are not able to put all our data in Vertica and have to resort to Scala/Hive on Hadoop.
  • Pricing: Vertica can get pretty expensive with large data sizes.
  • Speed: Queries could always be faster!
  • Limited options for querying clients: We primarily use Vertica from our terminals. Options for GUI clients are ugly and outdated. Using the terminal for querying is sometimes annoying, with problems like showing query runtime only in milliseconds and not being able to change it, columns being hard to read when there are more columns than the display space etc.
It is appropriate for interactive querying. It is not appropriate for complete storage of all your data for bigger companies.
Praveen Murugesan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vertica is used by uber for data analytics use cases. We have a vertica based data mart (subset of business data) for analytics insight and data science across the entire organization. We use it as a complementary solution to Hadoop. We initially started our with Vertica which worked for our needs, but over the last couple of years have started leveraging Hadoop in addition to vertica to help our data efforts with high scale.
  • Extremely fast query performance - Vertica is one of the fastest query engines out there.
  • Scales to TBs - Scales reasonably well up to 10-20 nodes and 10 - 100s of TB of data.
  • Easy to Use - Fairly easy to user, we made quite some headway with just 1 person running it for a while.
  • PetaByte Scale data - Vertica Just cannot deal with this, it starts to crumble beyond 100s of TB of data.
  • Concurrent Usage - Vertica starts to have significant backpressure as your concurrent users grow quickly. We had trouble scaling post 20-30 users and had to invent our our queuing strategies.
  • Vertical stack - storage + compute tier in one stack, this doesn't help the cause of scaling. Other systems leverage the advantage of storage and compute being different tiers (eg: HDFS + Presto)
As someone just starting out with data analytics and warehousing vertica is a great tool for a small scale business. It has amazing performance and can scale upto TBs of data. It works well for any organization which has about 100 - 500 DAUs of the system. The system doesn't require a lot of ops overhead.

Scaling for PB data and 1000s of DAU is vertica's weak point. The system is just not designed for large scale usage and still has a long way to go to improve scalability. There are experiments to run Vertica query engine on top of HDFS which seem promising, however - if you have the the Hadoop ecosystem you are better off going the HDFS + Presto/Impala/SparkSQL route. But if you are in the Hadoop ecosystem, you probably are already investing a lot in ops.
Traian Antonescu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Vertica is our main data warehouse. Is used as a source for most of our analytic reports as well as for all data analysis activities. We also use it in a non-traditional fashion, more like a data processing engine for solving problems at scale (matching, statistics, correlate sources, etc.). It runs in AWS with data loaded/unloaded from/to S3.
  • IO optimized - it's a columnar store, no indexing structures to maintain like traditional databases, the indexing is achieved by storing the data sorted on disk, which itself is run transparently as a background process.
  • Reduced data storage footprint through advanced encoding schemas (RLE, common-delta, etc.) as well as compression algorithms ability to operate directly on the encoded data.
  • Could use some work on better integrating with cloud providers and open source technologies. For AWS you will find an AMI in the marketplace and recently a connector for loading data from S3 directly was created. With last release, integration with Kafka was added that can help.
  • Managing large workloads (concurrent queries) is a bit challenging.
  • Having a way to provide an estimate on the duration for currently executing queries / etc. can be helpful. Vertica provides some counters for the query execution engine that are helpful but some may find confusing.
  • Unloading data over JDBC is very slow. We've had to come up with alternatives based on vsql, etc. Not a very clean, official on how to unload data.

Vertica is not the silver bullet but based on my experience in 9/10 cases in which you need an analytical database, Vertica is probably the answer.

Currently we're using Vertica more as a data processing engine in conjunction with a Hadoop cluster as some of the steps are way more efficient than doing them in Hadoop and easier to manage (e.g. iterative processing steps). We also had a pretty good experience using it with Storm and Hadoop.

At the same time, using Vertica as a traditional OLTP database, with many small transactions inserting/deleting/updating data is not going to take you very far so that’s an obvious case where Vertica is not recommended.
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