Firebolt vs. OpenText Vertica

OpenText Vertica

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Firebolt	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Firebolt's Cloud Data Warehouse is designed to deliver extreme speed and elasticity at any scale to solve impossible data challenges. The vendor states it combines the best of high performance database architecture with the infinite scale of the data lake, enabling you to perform analytics at jaw-dropping speed across terabyte and petabyte scale. Built on a decoupled storage and compute architecture, Firebolt allows users to scale up or down to support any workload.	N/A
OpenText Vertica	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	The Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica is owned and supported by OpenText.	N/A

Pricing

Firebolt

OpenText Vertica

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Firebolt	OpenText Vertica
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Firebolt introduces a new business model that ensures true alignment of interests with customers. You can now rely on Firebolt to support your ever growing data and compute requirements, enabling you to run more queries faster, without breaking the bank. Firebolt pricing includes a fixed annual cost (described in the tiers below) as well as AWS cloud costs for resources you decide to use (fully transparent AWS compute and storage at the baseline cost. We don't make any profit here).

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Community Pulse
	Firebolt	OpenText Vertica
Top Pros	Pro Performance analysis	Pro Real time Pro Sql server Pro Easy to use
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Data analytics Minus Big data analytics Minus Large data

Best Alternatives
	Firebolt	OpenText Vertica
Small Businesses	Google BigQuery Score 8.6 out of 10	Google BigQuery Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Snowflake Score 9.0 out of 10	Snowflake Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Oracle Exadata Score 8.2 out of 10	Oracle Exadata Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Firebolt	OpenText Vertica
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.9 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Firebolt	OpenText Vertica
Likelihood to Recommend	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Eva Donaldson Business Intelligence Manager Read full review
Pros	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Praveen Murugesan Engineering Manager - Ride Experience Read full review
Cons	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Traian Antonescu Big Data Technical Director Read full review
Support Rating	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Firebolt No answers on this topic	OpenText 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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