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Sumeet Keswani

Vertica Product Technology Engineer

Sumeet Keswani is a Product Technology Engineer. He has worked at Vertica for 9 years. He works with sales, support and customers to ensure customers get the most out of their Vertica Solutions.
His areas of expertise are Linux OS optimizations, cloud deployment and the query optimizer.

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Write Optimized Store (WOS) Deprecation – What You Need to Know

Sumeet Keswani, Vertica Product Technology Engineer
March 23, 2020

In Vertica 10.0, WOS (Write Optimized Store) will be deprecated. In this blog, we introduce the historical justification for WOS and its purpose, why we believe that it's no longer needed, and our justification for deprecating it. We'll go over the data and the testing we performed that gives us the confidence to ensure that...