Vertica

As “big data” growth and the importance of monetizing this information continue, more companies are joining a growing ecosystem of data warehousing and analytics solutions. Not every company can provide all the necessary tools to make the most of your business-critical information, so HP partners with best-of-breed tools that integrate with the HP Vertica Analytics Platform.

Through our standard connectors and a flexible API, HP enables you to move data into and out of the HP Vertica Analytics Platform, in creating reports, dashboards, and queries, and in developing applications that offer drastically better query performance and scalability. HP offers this industry-standard connectivity through ODBC, JDBC, ADO.Net, and our rich API as well as native integrations and certifications with a variety of tools like Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau and others. HP Vertica also offers an Informatica plug-in.

HP Vertica Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) Connector

HP Vertica was the first analytic database company to deliver a Hadoop Connector. HP Vertica now offers two connectors to transfer data seamlessly between Hadoop and HP Vertica:

1. The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) connector enables you to load data from HDFS using the HP Vertica native COPY facility. This mechanism simplifies and accelerates the process of loading data stored in HDFS without any MapReduce coding. The connector also ensures that data is loaded from the Hadoop cluster with the optimal amount of parallelism. By using the connector with the HP Vertica External Tables feature, you can even query data in HDFS without copying data into HP Vertica.
2. The Hadoop & Pig Connector is bidirectional and enables you to move data from Hadoop to HP Vertica or vice versa via either MapReduce or Pig jobs.

With HP Vertica HDFS and Pig Connectors, you have unprecedented flexibility and speed in loading data from HDFS to the HP Vertica Analytics Platform and querying data from the HP Vertica Analytics Platform in Hadoop. The HP Vertica HDFS and Pig Connectors are open source, supported by HP Vertica, and available for download.

HP Vertica provides optimized JDBC and ODBC client drivers for most platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and others.

Additional Resources

Download the Vertica Connector for Hadoop & Pig

Read:

• ClickStream Analysis with HP Vertica (Webinar)
• Comparing Pattern Mining on a Billion Records with HP Vertica and Hadoop (Blog Post)
• Presto: Distributed R for Big Data (Blog Post)
• Make All Your Information matter – Hadoop and HP Vertica Analytics Platform