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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dell PowerMax NVMe

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ADell PowerMax NVME is presented as a end-to-end NVMe, storage class memory (SCM) for persistent storage, real-time machine learning and up to 350GB per second to power critical workloads.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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    Dell PowerMax NVMeVertica Analytics Database
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    Dell PowerMax NVMeVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Dell PowerMax NVMeVertica Analytics Database
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Dell PowerMax NVMe and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Dell PowerMax NVMe
    9.6
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Flash Array Performance10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Compression10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simplicity8.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Power Savings9.12 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Dell PowerMax NVMeVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    7.9
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    User Testimonials
    Dell PowerMax NVMeVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dell Technologies
    PowerMax is suited for a mid-tier to enterprise company. It can easily take on and manage what it may take with various storage arrays. This can work in any vertical, healthcare, manufacturing, financial, insurance, etc. It can easily manage massive workloads and deliver very high-end performance. Is not feasible for small companies, this can and would be very expensive to maintain and operate, and it truly doesn't make sense when a much smaller array can be used.
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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
    Dell Technologies
    • Fastest storage array in the world.
    • this system provide the performance density up to 7.5 million IOPS5 per rack
    • Its support maximum system
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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
    Dell Technologies
    • Can be complex if someone is not versed on the product.
    • Expensive.
    • High cost of maintenance.
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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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    Support Rating
    Dell Technologies
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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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    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
    Dell Technologies
    • Cost
    • Opex vs Capex
    • Maintenance Costs.
    • Learning curve on software to maintain the array.
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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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