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    The Weather Company

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Weather Company provides weather data and forecasts globally with personalized and actionable insights to millions of consumers and thousands of businesses. The product provides weather intelligence and insight on any device. Use cases, or industries served, include Military and Defense, Aviation, Advertising, Media, and some Consumer use cases. Example data products include: The Weatherverse Planner platform, which continuously monitors the forecast to help…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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    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    The Weather CompanyVertica Analytics Database
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    10.0
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
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    User Testimonials
    The Weather CompanyVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    The Weather Company
    Well suited:
    • Forecasting for severe weather events.
    • Generating overall seasonal trends in upcoming weather patterns.
    • Content is easy to read and understand.
    • Great for business decision-makers, c-level executives.
    Not well-suited:
    • Year ahead forecasts.
    • Data that can be trusted as finite days before a weather event. The data and forecasts can change often, so remaining up to date is key.
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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
    The Weather Company
    • Detailed forecasts.
    • Hyper-local forecasts.
    • Daily updated local and meaningful forecast for our business.
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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
    The Weather Company
    • Forecasts are not always accurate.
    • Winter weather forecasts are now often now-casted which can be challenging for proactive planning.
    • Would love to see more tips on how businesses can prepare for severe weather by the use of the Weather Company’s data.
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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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    Support Rating
    The Weather Company
    Support for the Weather Company has not been an issue. The predictive analytics processes that they use allow them to remain a strong force in the world of weather patterns and forecasts. Brand recognition allows them to continue to grow and develop in a world that is not as crowded as other predictive analytics areas.
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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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    The Weather Company
    Insightful meteorologists that both understands the science of weather and also understands our business needs.
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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
    The Weather Company
    • Better confidence in the weather forecast.
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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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