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Enter the Flex Zone – Under the Hood

Ben Vandiver
February 14, 2014

With Vertica's latest release (Vertica 7 Crane"), we introduced Vertica Flex Zone, based on the patent-pending flex tables technology, which dynamically adapt to whatever schema is present in the data. Flex tables offer dramatic usability improvements over regular tables. In this post, we take a look under the hood and show how flex tables are...

Enter the Flex Zone – Exploring Delimited Data

Ben Vandiver
January 22, 2014

Here at Vertica, we had to solve a technical challenge that many of you might be facing: data analysis from legacy products.

Welcome to the Flex Zone – Dynamic Schemas

Ben Vandiver
January 15, 2014

Much of the data analytics we perform occurs with data whose schema changes over time. Many organizations have developers who define the record types that are collected and analysts who comb through these records looking for important patterns. In today's fast-changing business landscape, agility is the key to success: developers need to continually define new...

Enter the Flex Zone –– An Exploration in Processing Twitter Data

Ben Vandiver
January 13, 2014

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