We performed a comparison between Vertica and VMware Tanzu Greenplum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It maximize cloud economics for mission-critical big data analytical initiatives."
"The most valuable feature is Vertica's performance and the ease of using the database."
"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."
"I have found the solution to be scalable."
"DBAs don’t need to add a partition every month/quarter like with other DBs."
"Eighty percent of the ETL operations have improved since implementing this solution."
"Integrated R and geospatial functions are helping us improve efficiency and explore new revenue streams. "
"Vertica enabled us to close large deals. Customers with large data sets had to be migrated from PostgreSQL to Vertica due to performance."
"Tanzu Greenplum's most valuable features include the integration of modern data science approaches across an MPP platform."
"We chose Greenplum because of the architecture in terms of clustering databases and being able to have, or at least utilize the resources that are sitting on a database."
"It's one of the fastest databases in the market. It's easy to use. From a maintenance perspective it's a good product. The segmentation, or architecture of the product is different than other databases such as Oracle. So even in 10 years, the data distribution for such segments will not affect other segments. The query performance of the product, for complex queries, is very good. It has good integration with Hadoop."
"It's super easy to deploy and it also supports different languages and analytics."
"Pivotal Greenplum's shared-nothing architecture."
"The loading speed is very good."
"Helps us to achieve large-scale analytics."
"Scalable (Massive) Parallel Processing (MPP) – The ability to bring to bear large amounts of compute against large data sets with Greenplum and the EMC DCA has proven itself to be very effective."
"Promotion/marketing must be improved, even though it is a very useful product at very good price, it is not as "popular" as it should be."
"Vertica can improve automation and documentation. Additionally, the solution can be simplified."
"There are a lot of limitations within this product and it makes things extremely hard for developers. It lacks Stored Procedure, packages, and triggers like other RDBMs."
"The geospatial functionality could be designed better."
"The integration of this solution with ODI could be improved."
"We faced some challenges when trying to use the temporary tables feature."
"They could improve the integration and some of the features in the cloud version."
"It would be great if this were a managed service in AWS."
"We would like to see Greenplum maintain a closer relationship with and parity to features implemented in PostgreSQL."
"The initial setup is somewhat complex and the out-of-the-box configuration requires optimization."
"The installation is difficult and should be made easier."
"I saw some limitation with respect to the column store, and removing this would be an improvement."
"Implementation takes a long time."
"Extra filters would be helpful."
"They need to enhance integration with other Big Data products... to integrate with Big Data platforms, and to open a bi-directional connection between Greenplum and Big Data."
"Tanzu Greenplum's compression for GPText could be made more efficient."
Vertica is ranked 4th in Data Warehouse with 83 reviews while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is ranked 9th in Data Warehouse with 36 reviews. Vertica is rated 8.2, while VMware Tanzu Greenplum is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Vertica writes " A user-friendly tool that needs to improve its documentation part". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Tanzu Greenplum writes "Very efficient at large scale analytics; lacks inbuilt machine-learning functions for complex use cases". Vertica is most compared with Snowflake, SQL Server, Amazon Redshift, Teradata and MySQL, whereas VMware Tanzu Greenplum is most compared with Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance, Snowflake, Apache Hadoop and Teradata. See our VMware Tanzu Greenplum vs. Vertica report.
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