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Announcing Vertica Version 12

Posted June 6, 2022 by Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem

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Monitor your Vertica Metrics in Prometheus Using the New Vertica Prometheus Exporter

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 31, 2022

Looking to visualize Vertica metrics in your favorite monitoring tool that supports Prometheus? You can now do it with the Vertica Prometheus Exporter! We are happy to announce the Vertica Prometheus Exporter, an open-source project now available on Vertica’s GitHub. The exporter uses the vertica-sql-go driver to connect to Vertica. Prometheus is a monitoring system...

Integrate your Data Faster Using DataSpider Servista with Vertica

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 11, 2022

DataSpider Servista easily integrates and connects data across a wide variety of systems and applications – including cloud and on-premises systems, IoT integrations, and business intelligence – all with a simple GUI. To make use of DataSpider features with Vertica data, you can connect using either a JDBC or an ODBC driver. To know more,...
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Unleash the Power of Data Science with Vertica and Domino Data Lab

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
November 30, 2022

Introducing an end-to-end machine learning solution with Vertica and Domino Data Lab that enables you to explore, analyze, and model your data in Vertica using VerticaPy. Domino Data Lab is a data science platform to build and deploy machine learning models, monitor performance, and collaborate with one another. VerticaPy is a Python library to perform...
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Improving COUNT DISTINCT Performance with Approximate Functions

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
November 16, 2022

A common analytic use case is to find the number of distinct items in a data set. Vertica performs well at solving COUNT DISTINCT in a few ways. Since Vertica stores all data in columns, it is possible to optimize for COUNT DISTINCT by building a projection that is tuned for this use case. Vertica...
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Announcing the Availability of Vertica JavaScript Driver (vertica-nodejs)

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
September 30, 2022

This post is authored by Bill Jones and Danny Mickens. What is Node.js? Wikipedia defines Node.js as an “open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications”. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application...

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Break the bias – and predict brake bias

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
September 20, 2022

The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) was given the name #BreakTheBias to get us to imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination, a world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, where difference is valued and celebrated. Together, we can protect women’s equality. At Micro Focus, as...
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Unleash the Power of Vertica and Apache Spark Using the Upgraded Spark Connector

Arash Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
September 16, 2022

This post is authored by Alex Le What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a distributed compute engine that provides a robust API for data science, machine learning, or to work with big data. It is fast, scalable, simple, and supports multiple languages, including Python, SQL, Scala, Java, and R. Backed by the Apache 2.0...

Vertica’s Fungible Licensing vs. Cloud-only Solutions

Steven Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
August 29, 2022

A few years ago, I worked as an evangelist for a midsize software company, and sometimes had to ask my boss to fund a project that hadn’t been anticipated in the quarterly plan. As long as my reasons for the change were sound, he was usually accommodating, telling me, “Steve, money is fungible.” He simply...

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Vertica Grafana Plugin just got an Upgrade!

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
August 17, 2022

A new version of the Vertica Grafana Plugin is now available. You can download it from the Vertica GitHub page or the Grafana website. With many of our customers using the Vertica Grafana plugin, addition of the new Vertica Performance Dashboard makes it easy to visualize metrics. You can now create dashboards, quickly import it...

dataGALS – Vertica’s history of supporting women in tech

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
August 9, 2022

When you look around your office, or when you look at the faces on your Zoom calls, do you see an even mix of men and women? If yours is like most organizations in the technology sector, women occupy only about 25% of the jobs, according to a recent CIO Magazine article. That stat is...
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Detect Outliers Using Isolation Forest

George Larionov
August 2, 2022

The Isolation Forest (IForest) algorithm is a powerful and scalable algorithm for identifying outliers in your data. It uses a unique approach which focuses directly on characterizing outliers instead of normal data points. Specifically, IForest focuses on the two quantitative properties of outliers: they are few and different. A scalable implementation of the Isolation Forest algorithm is available...

Announcing our Integration with Chata

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
July 28, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce our new integration with AutoQL, a natural language interface to database system (NLIDB) by Chata. You can now use this conversational AI solution to ask questions, get insights, and analyse your data in Vertica. This exploration covers the implementation process, deployment options, how to connect to Vertica, and use the AutoQL...