Difference between Vertica and YugabyteDB

1. YugabyteDB :
YugabyteDB is the open source, cloud native and high-performance distributed SQL database globally-distributed document store. YugabyteDB aims to make applications agile. Yugabyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. YugabyteDB is distributed and developed as an Apache 2.0 open source project .

2. Vertica :
Vertica is a Columnar relational DBMS which is designed to handle modern analytic workloads and enables fast query performance. Its headquarters is in Cambridge, MA, United States. It is an infrastructure-independent through which it supports deployments on multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), on-premises and natively on Hadoop nodes. Its Analytics Platform Community Edition was made available for free with certain limitations.

Difference between Vertica and YugabyteDB :

S.No.	Vertica	YugabyteDB
1	Developed by Vertica / Micro Focus and initially released on 2005.	Developed by Yugabyte Inc. and initially released on 2017 and current release on March 2020.
2	Current release date- Vertica 10.0 Software, May 2020 and Vertica for SQL on Hadoop 10.0 Software, May 2020.	Current release date- March 2020.
3	Server operating systems of Vertica is Linux.	Server operating systems of YugabyteDB is Linux, OS X.
4	Its primary database model is Relational DBMS.	Its primary database model is Relational DBMS.
5	Secondary database models of Vertica is Document store.	Secondary database models of YugabyteDB is Document store and Wide column store.
6	Vertica supports C++, Java, Perl, Python, R, programming languages.	YugabyteDB supports C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript (Node.js), Python, Ruby programming languages.
7	APIs and other access methods of Vertica is ADO.NET, JDBC, Kafka, ODBC, Proprietary protocol, RESTful HTTP, API.	YugabyteDB supports YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language.
8	It has Data Schema.	Data scheme of YugabyteDB is depending on used data model.
9	It does not has any Implementation language.	Implementation language of YugabyteDB is C and C++.
10	Transaction concepts is ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability).	Its Transaction concepts is Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
11	Replication methods of Vertica is Master-slave replication.	Replication methods of YugabyteDB is based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability.
12	It has Immediate Consistency concept.	It has strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads.