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Vertica

SingleStore’s Key Advantages Over Vertica

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Ultra-Fast Performance
Accelerate time to insight with a database built for ultra-fast ingest & high-performance queries
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Ease of Use and Flexibility
SingleStore Universal Storage architecture allows transactional and analytical workloads to be processed on operational data using a single table type
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Low-Latency Analytics
Deliver sub-second response for analytics on real-time and historical data
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Vertica

Description

Built for maximum ingest, fast query, and high concurrency to help you process, analyze, and act on data instantly. Available in the cloud, on Kubernetes, or on-premises.

Columnar-stored relational database, fundamentally designed to manage analytical workloads in data warehousing applications.

Database Model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DBaaS Offering

SingleStore Helios

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Data Ingest

Deliver insights in real-time with lock-free ingestion and fast analytic queries to serve instant responses to fast-changing customers or operational events

Doesn't handle real-time data ingestion and analytics on rapidly changing data

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Flexibility

Combines transactional and analytical (HTAP - Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing) requirements in a single system

Not an ideal solution for use cases such as high-velocity transactions (OLTP workloads), real-time insights on streaming applications, or hybrid workloads etc.

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Architecture

Scale-out efficiently and quickly respond to growing workloads leveraging commodity hardware without add-ons or specialized tuning expertise.

Growth in data volume and user concurrency is addressed with costly add-ons, specialized hardware upgrades, or premium tuning experts

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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Simple single product subscription with easy to manage and patch software platform delivers performance with dramatic cost savings

Requires specialized hardware to operate. Expensive subscription policies result in continuously rising TCO.

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