TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

H2 Database Engine vs. Vertica Analytics Database

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    H2 Database

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AH2 Database Engine is an open source, embeddable database management system (RDMS) written in Java.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
    Pricing
    H2 DatabaseVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    H2 DatabaseVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    H2 DatabaseVertica Analytics Database
    Small Businesses
    MariaDB Platform
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    PostgreSQL
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SQLite
    Score8 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    H2 DatabaseVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    H2 DatabaseVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    For running application tests it's well suited. H2 [Database Engine] can replace the real-world database solution for them easily and removes the requirement to set up a a separate database instance just for running unit tests. For using in actual production application one needs to consider scale. H2 is suitable if application runs in single instance and database is located in same machine as a file where that application runs. This means the application shouldn't have a large user base. However it's easy to switch to an actual MySQL instance if the need arises, it's most likely only a configuration change and doesn't require new code.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Open Source
    • Can run as an in-memory database.
    • Simple and quick to get started with, and is light weight (only 2MB).
    • SQL compliant so it compatible with most relational databases.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Open Source
    • There's a warning in official FAQ "Is it Reliable?"-section which makes it seem like H2 is not yet a mature product.
    • If raw SQL queries are used there maybe be differences between MySQL & H2. ORM library should be used.
    • Support seems to be community-based only.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    While both can run as an in-memory database, H2 Database Engine was just so much easier for us to use since we primarily use the Java stack and H2 Database Engine is also built with Java.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Doesn't take time from developers, once it's configs are set up for testing it works in everyone's development environments
    • Easy to integrate in application, no need to setup separate database software, no maintenance
    • No need to deal with infrastructure related issues/costs - database runs in same machine as the application that uses it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots