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OpenText Vertica vs. Amazon Redshift

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Vertica

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica is owned and supported by OpenText.N/A

    Amazon Redshift

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Redshift is a hosted data warehouse solution, from Amazon Web Services.

    $0.24

    per GB per month

    Pricing
    OpenText VerticaAmazon Redshift
    Editions & Modules
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    Redshift Managed Storage
    $0.24
    per GB per month
    Current Generation
    $0.25 - $13.04
    per hour
    Previous Generation
    $0.25 - $4.08
    per hour
    Redshift Spectrum
    $5.00
    per terabyte of data scanned
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText VerticaAmazon Redshift
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText VerticaAmazon Redshift
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    Chose OpenText Vertica
    Vertica is much easier to manage; is just software (i.e. vs. Netezza), easier to scale and extend, with a very powerful query execution engine and storage layer. While other solutions (e.g. Greenplum) are just postgres clones that were extended to run at scale but still keep …
    Incentivized
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon Redshift
    1. Redshift has better compression (automated) consuming less space then competitors
    2. Automated Vacuum Delete for having consistent performance
    3. AWS introduced ra3 node types for simple separation of compute and storage
    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon Redshift

    Than Vertica: Redshift is cheaper and AWS integrated (which was a plus because the whole company was on AWS).

    Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.

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    User Ratings
    OpenText VerticaAmazon Redshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)