We performed a comparison between IBM Db2 Database and Vertica based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others in Relational Databases Tools."The solution is a very stable relational database and has integration with legacy systems. It is a great product."
"The solution's initial setup is straightforward."
"I believe that because the support is good, they jump in and assist us in determining the root cause."
"The self-management and optimization features are probably the best on the market"
"Scales well enough for a relational database."
"The solution's security is very tough and impenetrable."
"The most valuable features are with the industrial side."
"IBM Db2 was much cheaper as a package than using other products. This is because IBM supplied a package with its product. It's an application. So it was much more efficient and a stronger competitor in that regard."
"Vertica is a columnar database where the query performance is extremely fast and it can be used for real-time integrations for API and other applications. The solution requires zero maintenance which is helpful."
"Bulk loads, batch loads, and micro-batch loads have made it possible for our organization to process near real-time ingestions and faster analytics."
"Any novice user can tune vertical queries with minimal training (or no training at all)."
"The solution has great capabilities. The tool that instructs the internal database forward is easy to use and is very powerful."
"For me, It's performance, scalability, low cost, and it's integrated into enterprise and big data environments."
"I appreciate the flexibility offered by Vertica's projections. It allows for modifying the primary projection without altering the tables, which helps to optimize queries without the need to modify the underlying data."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"Speed and resiliency are probably the best parts of this product."
"The queries can be difficult for beginners because there are so many. I would like to see more use cases for flow analysis that enable us to correlate the flow with events. Adding this feature in a QI format would be good for beginners."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered backup functionality. Many similar tools already do, which means Db2 is somewhat behind the curve in terms of what a customer might expect from it."
"The command line part of this solution could be much better."
"When I look at Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server provides me with better tools for database management."
"IBM Db2 Database could improve in the steps it takes for upgrades. It is not an easy process. The process of upgrading the version is lengthy and requires a lot of time. To make it more efficient, I suggest implementing some automation on the solution side. This will greatly reduce the time required for the upgrade."
"I would say that the tool has to be made more cloud-friendly and should have agreements with AWS, Microsoft, or Google to run things on hyperscalers."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration."
"It would be helpful to have a hybrid data storage facility that includes NoSQL technologies."
"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."
"Suboptimal projection design causes queries to not scale linearly."
"Vertica's native cloud support could be improved, and its installation could be made easier."
"Fact-to-fact joins on multi-billion record tables perform poorly."
"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."
"In my opinion, Vertica's documentation could be improved. Currently, there is not enough documentation available to gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform."
"Vertica seems to scale well, except for one use case where you are on a multi-node cluster. For example, if you had a nine-node cluster, one node goes down, then the eight nodes don't scale, because the absence of the node is very apparent, which is a problem. If you have nine nodes or multiple nodes, the whole idea is that if one of those nodes goes down, then you should not see an impact on the system if you have enough capacity. Even though we have enough capacity, you can still see the impact of the one node going down."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
IBM Db2 Database is ranked 6th in Relational Databases Tools with 66 reviews while Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews. IBM Db2 Database is rated 8.2, while Vertica is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Db2 Database writes "Very scalable with high availability and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". IBM Db2 Database is most compared with SQL Server, Oracle Database, SAP HANA, Teradata and MySQL, whereas Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and Oracle Exadata.
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