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  5. MSSQL vs Vertica

MSSQL vs Vertica

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Overview

Vertica
Vertica
Stacks88
Followers120
Votes16
MSSQL
MSSQL
Stacks1.0K
Followers417
Votes3

MSSQL vs Vertica: What are the differences?

MSSQL: It is an enterprise-level database system that is very popular for Windows web servers. It is capable of storing any type of data that you want. It will let you quickly store and retrieve information and multiple web site visitors can use it at one time; Vertica: Engineering experiences that amaze. Vertica provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

MSSQL and Vertica can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.

esportshub, Shared User Management System - Georgia Institute of Technology, and engel80 are some of the popular companies that use MSSQL, whereas Vertica is used by Taboola, HomeUnion, and Points International. MSSQL has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Vertica, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Vertica, MSSQL

Kyle
Kyle

Web Application Developer at Redacted DevWorks

Dec 3, 2019

DecidedonPostGISPostGIS

While there's been some very clever techniques that has allowed non-natively supported geo querying to be performed, it is incredibly slow in the long game and error prone at best.

MySQL finally introduced it's own GEO functions and special indexing operations for GIS type data. I prototyped with this, as MySQL is the most familiar database to me. But no matter what I did with it, how much tuning i'd give it, how much I played with it, the results would come back inconsistent.

It was very disappointing.

I figured, at this point, that SQL Server, being an enterprise solution authored by one of the biggest worldwide software developers in the world, Microsoft, might contain some decent GIS in it.

I was very disappointed.

Postgres is a Database solution i'm still getting familiar with, but I noticed it had no built in support for GIS. So I hilariously didn't pay it too much attention. That was until I stumbled upon PostGIS and my world changed forever.

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Sdev
Sdev

Jun 12, 2020

Needs adviceonMSSQLMSSQLMySQLMySQL

We are planning to migrate one of my applications from MSSQL to MySQL. Can someone help me with the version to select?. I have a strong inclination towards MySql 5.7. But, I see there are some standout features added in Mysql 8.0 like JSON_TABLE. Just wanted to know if the newer version has not compromised on its speed while giving out some add on features.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Nov 26, 2019

Decided

I happen to point my asp.net core web application from MSSQL to MySQL due to infrastructure costs associated with the former db. The application also had challenges creating a migration schema of asp.net membership on MySQL.

After a thorough research I figured out how to do it and also made a video and uploaded to youtube. You can check that here https://youtu.be/X4I0DUw6C84

The full source code for the demo template is available on github here http://bit.ly/2LWgacA

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Detailed Comparison

Vertica
Vertica
MSSQL
MSSQL

It provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

It is capable of storing any type of data that you want. It will let you quickly store and retrieve information and multiple web site visitors can use it at one time.

Analyze All of Your Data. No longer move data or settle for siloed views;Achieve Scale and Performance;Fear of growing data volumes and users is a thing of the past;Future-Proof Your Analytics
Resumable online index rebuild; SQL Server machine learning services; Query processing improvements; Automatic database tuning; TempDB file size improvements; Smart differential backup; Smart transaction log backup.
Statistics
Stacks
88
Stacks
1.0K
Followers
120
Followers
417
Votes
16
Votes
3
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 3
    Shared nothing or shared everything architecture
  • 1
    Partition pruning and predicate push down on Parquet
  • 1
    Vertica is the only product which offers partition prun
  • 1
    Query-Optimized Storage
  • 1
    Fully automated Database Designer tool
Pros
  • 3
    Easy of use
Cons
  • 1
    License Cost
  • 1
    Vendor lock-in
Integrations
Oracle
Oracle
Golang
Golang
MongoDB
MongoDB
MySQL
MySQL
Sass
Sass
Mode
Mode
PowerBI
PowerBI
Tableau
Tableau
Talend
Talend
MySQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
Oracle
SQLite
SQLite

What are some alternatives to Vertica, MSSQL?

MongoDB

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

MySQL

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.

SQLite

SQLite

SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file.

Cassandra

Cassandra

Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.

Memcached

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

MariaDB

MariaDB

Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.

RethinkDB

RethinkDB

RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.

ArangoDB

ArangoDB

A distributed free and open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

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