Oracle Database Appliance vs Vertica comparison

Oracle and OpenText are both solutions in the Data Warehouse category. Oracle is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8, while OpenText is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.1. Oracle holds a 5.5% mindshare in Data Warehouse, compared to OpenText’s 8.5% mindshare. Additionally, 86% of Oracle users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Vertica and Oracle Database Appliance both compete in the data management category. Based on these comparisons, Vertica appears to have the upper hand due to its efficient query processing speed and flexible deployment options.

Features: Vertica is known for quickly loading large data, offering optimal cost per TB, and providing effective clustering and data compression. Its scalability and fast query processing make it a suitable option for many businesses. Oracle Database Appliance is praised for easy deployment, high performance, and strong support for Oracle environments, making it a compelling choice for those deeply integrated with Oracle products.

Room for Improvement: Vertica can enhance workload management, documentation, and SQL optimization. It also needs to improve its utilization of heterogeneous storage. Oracle Database Appliance has room for improvement in terms of scalability, virtualization, and customer service. Additionally, refining its pricing models could make it more competitive.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vertica provides flexibility with cloud and on-premises deployments, generally receiving positive feedback for its responsive customer service. Oracle Database Appliance primarily focuses on on-premises deployment. Despite its high cost, Oracle’s customer support could be improved in both response time and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Vertica is appreciated for transparent pricing based on data size, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership and a good return on investment. However, some users find it expensive. Oracle Database Appliance is often seen as costly, but users see this as justified by its performance and seamless integration within the Oracle ecosystem, offering decent ROI for users heavily invested in Oracle solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle Database Appliance

Ranking in Data Warehouse

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Vertica

Ranking in Data Warehouse

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Oracle Database Appliance is 5.5%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vertica is 8.5%, up from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Charu Mazumdar

Technical Architect at DXC Technology

Simplifies database management tasks and provides high availability and disaster recovery

Oracle Database Appliance has simplified our database management tasks. Our clients are using the solution for high availability and disaster recovery. Our overall experience with the solution was good, especially the DR. Oracle Database Appliance's integrated storage solutions have enhanced our data management. Oracle Database Appliance's integration with other solutions was straightforward. We faced compatibility issues while moving from another device to this one, and the integration was not seamless. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an 8 out of 10.

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T Venkatesh

Deputy Manager at ICICIBANK Ltd

Processes query faster through multiple systems simultaneously, but it could support different data types

We use the solution for various tasks, including preparing data marts and generating offers. It helps extract data based on rules from the policy team and provides insights to enhance business operations. We also analyze transactions to target customers and improve business performance The…

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Pros

"The most valuable features of the solution revolve around its performance, simplicity, and its installation phase."

"Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability."

"The product is very light."

"Oracle is a stable database."

"Oracle offers ETL with PL/SQL as a programming language for SQL programming, which is majorly used in data engineering."

"Oracle has good technical support."

"The solution's function we use to benefit the customers is database verification."

"The most valuable feature is the performance."

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"The product's initial setup phase is extremely simple."

"We are also opening new areas of business and potential new revenue streams using Vertica's analytic functions, most notably geospatial, where we are able to run billions of comparisons of lat/long point locations against polygon and point/radius locations in seconds. "

"The most valuable feature of Vertica is the unmatchable database performance."

"Allows us to take volumes and process them at a very high speed."

"Vertica uses advanced Azure technologies to compress raw data using indexing, allowing a large amount of data to be stored with minimal physical space. Advanced algorithms are employed in data compression."

"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."

"Vertica has a few features that I like. From an architecture standpoint, they have separated compute and storage. So you have low-cost object storage for primary storage and the ability to have several sub-clusters working off the same ObjectStore. So it provides workload isolation."

"It maximizes cloud economics with Eon Mode by scaling cluster size to meet variable workload demands."

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Cons

"Even though the solution can handle a lot of data, it's just too expensive currently."

"Oracle Database Appliance is stopping support for the standard edition and only continuing support for the RAC One Node. They did not inform us and we are having problems with our customers. We are not having to change our systems from standard to something else."

"The license cost could be cheaper, especially for long-term contracts."

"They could incorporate a more secure and internet-centric management system for the platform."

"I would be happy to see the Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) pre-installed in it instead of installing it in a separate machine."

"The feature that I would like to see improve is the interface. It is really not good. I almost have to work on script by script in it. There is always some issue with the user interface."

"Virtualization features could also be improved. A web-based GUI would be a good start."

"The tool's setup can be easier."

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"Support is an area where it could get better."

"Performance of management of metadata layer (database catalog) needs improvement. We still have to have smaller customers on PostgreSQL; Vertica cannot manage thousands of schemata."

"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."

"I would personally like to see extended developer tooling suited to Vertica – think published PowerDesigner SQL dialect support."

"They could improve on customer service."

"Whatever's out, the core is not always as great as the engine, especially their first version."

"When it is about to reach the maximum storage capacity, it becomes slow."

"In a future release, we would like to have artificial intelligence capabilities like neural networks. Customers are demanding this type of analytics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Leverage the Pay-As-You-Grow licensing, and consider using the ODA X6-2 S/M/L models also for SE2/SE."

"You must pay for the license."

"The product is costly."

"Oracle Database Application's support and maintenance are included in the contract."

"Oracle’s pricing is ridiculously high."

"Compared to Oracle Exadata, Oracle Database Appliance is affordable."

"I don’t know ODA and alternative system prices. But Oracle the database license is quite expensive and a lot of my customers plan to migrate to open source databases like PostgreSQL."

"I would rate the pricing a four on a scale of one (high price) to ten (low cost)."

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"Start with license per 1TB. Starting from hundreds of TB there is unlimited licensing to be considered. Move historical data to HDFS/S3 which are significantly cheaper or even free."

"The solution is free and we pay for the storage."

"The price is reasonable. We use a pay per license model. Firstly, you need to buy a license. After that, you mainly pay the annual support fee of around 20% or 25%. I think their prices are quite reasonable."

"It's difficult today to compete with open-source solutions. In these areas, there is a lot of competition and the price of this solution is a bit pricy."

"The price could be cheaper and it is best to negotiate the price."

"It is fast to purchase through the AWS Marketplace."

"Read the fine print carefully."

"Vertica has a perpetual license, but they are currently trying to convert all those licenses to subscription-based licenses on a yearly basis."

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Financial Services Firm

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Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

18%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Database Appliance?

Oracle Database Appliance provides high stability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Database Appliance?

While I'm somewhat familiar with standard licensing, pricing isn't really my area of expertise. However, Oracle is on the higher end of the pricing spectrum, along with SAP.

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What needs improvement with Oracle Database Appliance?

There is room for improvement in better integration with third-party tools, such as Power BI or Redshift. When dealing with federated data sources, this integration can be a challenge.

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What do you like most about Vertica?

Vertica is easy to use and provides really high performance, stability, and scalability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vertica?

The solution is relatively cost-effective. Pricing and licensing are reasonable compared to other solutions.

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What needs improvement with Vertica?

The product could improve by adding support for a wider variety of data types and enhancing features to better compete with other databases.

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Also Known As

X5-2

Micro Focus Vertica, HPE Vertica, HPE Vertica on Demand

Overview

Oracle Database Appliance is the easiest and most affordable way for small or medium-size organizations to run Oracle databases and applications and is an ideal platform for remote and edge computing environments. Customers reduce Oracle Database deployment times and management workloads using a prebuilt integrated system with management automation. As demonstrated in IDC’s business value study (PDF), Oracle Database Appliance lets customers grow revenue and control costs, delivering up to a 498% return on investment (ROI) over five years.

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Vertica is a deploy-anywhere SQL database created for elasticity, speed, and advanced analytics. Vertica enables today’s busy teams to modernize their data warehouses, democratize data and analytics to enable increased access, and deploy analytics in a hybrid cloud environment. Additionally, Vertica merges how companies power their analytics by providing a scalable, open, and elastic database with numerous intuitive features.

In today’s marketplace, organizations are experiencing continued robust growth of data volumes, and citizen data scientists’ broader use of analytics is causing many companies to re-visit and re-examine their systems in order to match the demands of an aggressive marketplace. Analytics are continually swiftly evolving. New data from social media, blogs, IoT sources, data streams, gas and electrical grids, and mobile networks is being constantly gathered in extensive data sets. This presents organizations with a new opportunity to become more data driven, and they must be able to manage the new data growth and identify the trends and sequences that can lead to both improved business opportunities and continued repeat business from their clients.

Vertica Benefits:

Vertica has many valuable key benefits. Some of its most useful benefits include:

Efficiency: Vertica provides robust compression and intuitive impressions. This results in users requiring significantly less storage and hardware than other comparable data analytics solutions. The progressive Vertica architecture results in queries that are 10-50 times faster than other platforms while providing more storage data per server.
Integration: Each new iteration of Vertica is tested and certified with the latest ETL and visualization tools. It actively supports Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and popular SQL providers. All these solutions and most leading BI and visualization tools interact seamlessly, making Vertica overall a very cost-effective solution and solid business investment.
Cloud flexibility: With Vertica, users do not have to get locked into a single cloud vendor. Users are able to take complete advantage of the current infrastructure that is already in place. Vertica seamlessly integrates with popular public clouds, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, AWS, Alibaba, VMware clouds, and more. It also provides for easy portability across on-premise and multi-cloud environments and data lakes. Vertica designs a robust flexible platform for running a company’s analytical and computing workloads, which allows applications to run simultaneously on numerous environments in a hybrid cloud infrastructure. Vertica is able to seamlessly use public clouds and private data centers, and it grants the flexibility to switch in an instant.
Security: Vertica offers dynamic end-to-end security with support for partner solutions and industry-standard protocols such as Apache Sentry, AWS IAM, Kerberos, LDAP, and more. Vertica utilizes an intuitive layered security model that provides multiple security authentication authorization mechanisms. Vertica will also maintain an audit trail, natively exported to other security domains for analysis and persistence.

Reviews from Real Users

“I am using Vertica for aggregations and dashboards. The most valuable feature of Vertica is the ability to receive large aggregations at a very quick pace. The use case of subclusters is very good.” - Bijal S., Group Chief Technology Officer at Netcore Solutions

“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.” - Munkhsaikhan B., Project Lead - Digital Transformation Unit at Bodi Electronics LLC

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