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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Engine Yard

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AEngine Yard is a platform-as-a-service solution allowing developers to plan, build, deploy, and manage applications in the cloud. Engine Yard also provides services for deployment, managing AWS, supporting databases, and microservices & container development.

    $800

    Per Month Per Cluster

    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
    Pricing
    Engine YardVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
    Platform
    $800.00
    Per Month Per Cluster
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    Pricing Offerings
    Engine YardVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Engine YardVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Engine YardVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Engine Yard
    It is best for rapidly getting your application to the cloud without worrying about standing up cloud infrastructure
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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
    Engine Yard
    • Quick deployments
    • Easily integrate your code from GitHub
    • Ability to recover site quickly to different zone when AWS has a widespread outage
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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
    Engine Yard
    • Embracing new Amazon Web Servicess(AWS) features
    • Security groups need more granularity
    • Audit trails of what happens by who in environment, especially when VM is deleted
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Engine Yard
    Ease of use
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    Rocket Software
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    Support Rating
    Engine Yard
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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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    Engine Yard
    More closely aligns to native AWS
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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
    Engine Yard
    • Positive in the sense that we can deploy new applications quickly for MVP
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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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