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NetApp ONTAP AI vs. Vertica Analytics Database

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    NetApp ONTAP AI

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ANVIDIA and NetApp collaborate to deliver ONTAP AI, a converged infrastructure stack that incorporates NVIDIA DGX A100, a 5-petaflop AI system, and NVIDIA Mellanox high-performance Ethernet switches to unify AI workloads, simplify deployment, and accelerate return on investment.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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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    NetApp ONTAP AIVertica Analytics Database
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    User Testimonials
    NetApp ONTAP AIVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NetApp
    If you want to deploy your AI system with precofigured solution and validated architecture and also want to scale your system, NetApp ONTAP AI is go to product. If you want to build not so large pipleline for analytics, or an ai system that dont require complex computation then its not recommended.
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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
    NetApp
    • Simplified AI data management infrastructure
    • Feasible DL pipeline building
    • Powerful solution to build data fabric
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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
    NetApp
    • Documentation is highly technical
    • Support not upto the mark
    • Data science tool kit needs few improvement with added features
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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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    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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    NetApp
    1) Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) dont have vast functionalities they are limited to set of rules. 2) They dont support all in one. I.e NetApp ONTAP AI I can analyze, inference and compute on simgle node or system. 3) pricing of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (Formerly CNTK) is higher than NetApp ONTAP AI
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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
    NetApp
    • It reduced the time complexity
    • It increased productivity
    • Faster computation
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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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