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Amazon Redshift Spectrum vs Vertica: What are the differences?
What is Amazon Redshift Spectrum? Exabyte-Scale In-Place Queries of S3 Data. With Redshift Spectrum, you can extend the analytic power of Amazon Redshift beyond data stored on local disks in your data warehouse to query vast amounts of unstructured data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” -- without having to load or transform any data.
What is Vertica? Storage platform designed to handle large volumes of data. It provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.
Amazon Redshift Spectrum and Vertica can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.
VSCO, CommonBond, and intermix.io are some of the popular companies that use Amazon Redshift Spectrum, whereas Vertica is used by Taboola, HomeUnion, and Points International. Amazon Redshift Spectrum has a broader approval, being mentioned in 8 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Vertica, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Amazon Redshift Spectrum
- Good Performance1
- Great Documentation1
- Economical1
Pros of Vertica
- Shared nothing or shared everything architecture3
- Reduce costs as reduced hardware is required1
- Offers users the freedom to choose deployment mode1
- Flexible architecture suits nearly any project1
- End-to-End ML Workflow Support1
- All You Need for IoT, Clickstream or Geospatial1
- Freedom from Underlying Storage1
- Pre-Aggregation for Cubes (LAPS)1
- Automatic Data Marts (Flatten Tables)1
- Near-Real-Time Analytics in pure Column Store1
- Fully automated Database Designer tool1
- Query-Optimized Storage1
- Vertica is the only product which offers partition prun1
- Partition pruning and predicate push down on Parquet1
