by Colin Mahony, VP of Products & Business Development and Shilpa Lawande, VP of Engineering Vertica has had an amazing journey since it was founded in 2005. We’ve built a great product, a great team and an incredibly strong and loyal customer base and partner ecosystem. When we first started, no one had even heard [...]
Funnel Analysis by Matt Fuller, Vertica By 2015, it is estimated the annual global internet traffic will reach almost 1 zettabyte. To put it into more familiar units, this is equivalent to about 1 billion terabytes. Web, email, instant messaging, etc. will account for about 30% of this figure. I found this fascinating, but not [...]
by Stephen Walkauskas Recently I’ve heard from or read about people who use Hadoop because their analytic jobs can’t achieve the same level of performance in a database. In one case, a professor I visited said his group uses Hadoop to count triangles “because a database doesn’t perform the necessary joins efficiently.” Perhaps I’m being [...]
A few days ago, Lakshmikant Shrinivas and I gave an invited talk at BIRTE 2011. Rather than yet another talk on Vertica 101, we chose to talk about Social Graph Analytics, a topic we are truly very excited about because it is something we are learning from our customers! And of course, it is uber [...]
By Colin Mahony and Shilpa Lawande Part III – Comparing and Contrasting Projections to Materialized Views and Indexes In Part I and Part II of this post, we introduced you to Vertica’s projections, and described how easy it is to interface with them directly via SQL or through our Database Designer™ tool. We will now [...]
By Colin Mahony and Shilpa Lawande Part II – Understanding the Simplicity of Projections and the Vertica Database Designer™ In Part I of this post, we introduced you to the simple concept of Vertica’s projections. Now that you have an understanding of what they are, we wanted to go into more detail on how users [...]
By Colin Mahony and Shilpa Lawande Part I: Understanding Projections and What They Do Many of us here at Vertica have been amazed and frankly flattered at how much FUD our competitors are putting out there regarding Vertica’s “projections”. Having heard some incredibly inaccurate statements about them, we’ve decided to clarify what they are, how and [...]
Author: Lyric Doshi Three cheers for Vertica Summer Interns 2011! . As summer comes to an end, we bid goodbye to yet another amazing crop of summer interns. This years interns Hieu, Zhongliang, Ruchika and Zhijie were MS/PhD students from different schools along the east coast. They worked on projects to extend the Vertica SDK, [...]
by Mingsheng Hong, Vertica Product Marketing Engineer I have an entrepreneur friend who used to carry a butter knife around. He claimed this “almighty” tool was the only one he ever needed! While the butter knife does serve a wide range of purposes (especially with a stretch of the imagination), in practice it doesn’t always [...]
Apache Log Analysis in Vertica . I am a proud new father and of course the first thing I did was to put pictures of my daughter online on our webserver because I wanted to see who had been looking at them. I could have gone the Google Analytics route, but being a geek I [...]
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