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Google Cloud Dataflow vs. Vertica Analytics Database

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud Dataflow

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.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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    Google Cloud DataflowVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DataflowVertica 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
    Google Cloud DataflowVertica Analytics Database
    Streaming Analytics
    Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Google Cloud Dataflow and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    Google Cloud Dataflow
    7.3
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Real-Time Data Analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Dashboards5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low Latency9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Development Tools6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data wrangling and preparation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Linear Scale-Out8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Machine Learning Automation6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Enrichment8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DataflowVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DataflowVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    It is best in cases where you have batch as well as streaming data. Also in some cases where you have batch data right now and in future you will get streaming data. In those cases Dataflow is very good. Also in cases where most of your infra is on GCP. It might not be good when you already are on AWS or Azure. And also you want in-depth control over security and management. Then you can directly use Apache beam over Dataflow.
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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
    Google
    • Streaming, Real time work load
    • Batch processing
    • Auto scaling
    • flexible pricing
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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
    Google
    • More templates for Bigquery and App Engine. There is only limited options for templates so the things we use can limit.
    • I would like native connectors for Excel (XLSX) to reduce the need for custom wrappers in financial pipelines.
    • Debugging Google Cloud Dataflow using only logs in Cloud Logging can be overwhelming sometimes, and it’s not always obvious which specific element in the flow caused a failure. IT uses a lot of time.
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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
    Google
    It really saved a lot of time and it's flexibility really can give you infra which is future-proof for most of the use cases may it be streaming or batch data. And with this you can avoid use of resource-heavy big data offerings.
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    Rocket Software
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    Support Rating
    Google
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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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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion
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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
    Google
    • cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers
    • consumption based pricing
    • with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load
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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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