Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud is a new, on-demand version of Vertica’s blazingly fast, grid-enabled columnar database hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. The pay-as-you-go offering enables companies to create large, high-performance analytic data marts without upfront data center costs and delays.

Built for the Cloud
Vertica is the only cloud-based analytic database with the following innovations, which enable it to manage terabytes of data faster and more reliably than any other cloud database:

• “Scale-out” grid architecture – handles changing workloads as elastically as the cloud
• Aggressive data compression – keeps storage costs low
• Automatic K-Safety – provides replication, failover and recovery in the cloud

New Business Intelligence Possibilities
Vertica for the Cloud completely changes the economics of BI, making it possible to rapidly
initiate a much broader spectrum of analytic projects and businesses:

• Ad-hoc and short-lived business analytic projects
• New analytic Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses
• Vertica Analytic Database proof of concept projects

• Fastest “Time to Terabyte” – Fully provisioned and ready for loading within minutes
• Fastest performance – 100x to 1000x faster than other cloud databases
• Runs 24x7 – Automatic K-Safety makes Vertica the only failure-resilient analytic cloud DBMS
• Lowest startup cost – No upfront hardware, data center or admin overhead. Just pay for database usage until you're done, then stop paying for it
• Painless scalability – Scales seamlessly as data volume changes
• Smallest footprint – Compresses data up to 90% to lower costs and improve performance
• Proven platform – Hosted by Amazon, within their proven data center