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    CompAnalyst

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ACompAnalyst is a compensation management software product from Salary.com. It includes survey data management, a job description builder, access to the Salary.com worldwide database (HR-reported salary data), and a dashboard to analyze internal pay practices vs. the market.N/A

    Vertica Analytics Database

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica was acquired and supported by OpenText, then sold to Rocket Software in 2026.N/A
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    PayScale Insight Lab
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CompAnalystVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CompAnalystVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salary.com
    I highly recommend considering CompAnalyst if you're looking to take your compensation function to the next level. If you're looking to create a "one stop shop" for your compensation needs, then this is the software for you. You can easily manage job descriptions and survey data, and you can empower your HR teams to find information in the tool by giving them access to specific areas of the site. The system can be configured to fit the needs of your organization
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    Rocket Software
    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.
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    Pros
    Salary.com
    • It allows us to benchmark our internal comp structure and design effective comp ranges.
    • CompAnalyst allows us to benchmark our internal compensation with others in our industry.
    • Allows us to market our comp ranges within a region, or across the US.
    • Most of our job titles can be found within CompAnalyst.
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    Rocket Software
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Salary.com
    • the user interface is not very intuitive, takes some time to get used to
    • do not like the default to national rates unless you check it off
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    Rocket Software
    • 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.
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    Usability
    Salary.com
    I gave CompAnalyst this usability rating because, in my experience, CompAnalyst has lots of information that can be analyzed by all factions of compaies
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    Rocket Software
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    Support Rating
    Salary.com
    Our Professional Services Consultant and Customer Success Manager are always available to answer our questions. If I have a compensation-related question, they will find the answer for us. They take our product feedback seriously, and the team has implemented a few of our requested features in the system. Their Vice President of Product Management is always open to receiving feedback, and CompAnalyst is always reaching out to customers to demo and test new product offerings.
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    Rocket Software
    I haven't had any recent opportunity to reach out to Vertica support. From what I remember, I believe whenever I reached out to them the experience was smooth.
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    Salary.com
    CompAnalyst gives me bang for my buck. It can get data other surveys may miss. It is easy to use and understand.
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    Rocket Software
    Vertica performs well when the query has good stats and is tuned well. Options for GUI clients are ugly and outdated. IO optimized: it's a columnar store with 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.
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    Return on Investment
    Salary.com
    • Allowed us to put together global grades
    • Helps us quickly update ranges during merit
    • makes sure we have the latest data for jobs
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    Rocket Software
    • Positive impact on ROI by being able to get customer insights in real-time.
    • Positive ROI through reduced time to set-up and maintain Vertica instances.
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