Whitepaper | Slashing Data Warehouse Costs with the Vertica® Analytic Database
For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.

Whitepaper | Vertica Analytic Database Architecture
How Vertica works and what sets it apart from other databases.

Whitepaper | "Vertica Benchmark Results - A New Era of Analytic DBMS Performance"
Read how Vertica has out-performed different types of data management solutions in a variety of customer settings

Whitepaper | Building a Multi-Terabyte Vertica Database
Best practices for sizing, provisioning, installing, designing and loading a multi-terabyte Vertica database.

System Requirements | Vertica Analytic Database
Software and hardware required to run the Vertica Analytic Database efficiently.

Quick Mart | Tickstore Quick Mart
Free trade history ("Tickstore") database schema, data generator and sample queries. Use this to jump start application development or benchmarking with Vertica or any SQL database.