We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"The Vertica architecture means it can process/ingest data in parallel to reporting and analyzing because of its in-memory Write-Optimized Storage sitting alongside the analytics optimized Read-Optimized Storage."
"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"Vertica is a columnar database, this support our developments in analytics, advanced analytics, and ETL process with large sets of data."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful."
"The hardware usage and speed has been the most valuable feature of this solution. It is very fast and has saved us a lot of money."
"It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"It needs integration with multiple clouds."
"Vertica offers a platform-as-a-service version, but their software-as-a-service solution is only available on AWS. They need to get a SaaS version on Azure and GCP as fast as possible."
"If you do not utilize the tuning tools like projections, encoding, partitions, and statistics, then performance and scalability will suffer."
"We are looking for a cheaper deployment for the solution. Although we did a lot of benchmarks, like Redshift. We tried Redshift, it didn't work. It didn't work out for us as well."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"It would be great if this were a managed service in AWS."
"Monitoring tools need to be lightweight. They should not take up heavy resources of the main server."
"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."
Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Vertica is ranked 7th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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