Vertica was too expensive, their licensing fees were terrible at our scale. Operations were also awful, if we had two nodes go down we were always in trouble. We built an EBS solution that made it a little better, but it still wasn’t tenable long term.
Their Eon mode product is very similar to Snowflake, with S3 storage and semi-dynamic compute nodes, but they may not be as slick at marketing it or providing a UI.
