Vertica Blog

Vertica Blog

Analytics

Best Practices for Refreshing Large Projections

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 27, 2015

More than once I have worked with customers who need to update a superprojection or create a new projection for a large fact table. It seems like a simple and easy process: just create a projection and perform a refresh. However, refreshing projections for large fact tables can produce unwanted complications. In this blog, we?ll...

What is a Lock Anyway?

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 19, 2015

We talk a lot about database security and how you can protect your sensitive data from outside threats. But what about internal, unintentional data corruption? What if the data you are trying to analyze or manipulate is simultaneously being manipulated by another transaction? A scenario such as this could lead to data loss and inconsistency....

Time Series Analytics: The Hunt for “Missing Link” in Data

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 12, 2015

Time series analytics is a little-known, but very powerful Vertica tool. In Vertica, the TIMESERIES clause and time series aggregate functions normalize data into time slices. Then they interpolate missing values that fill in the gaps.Using time series analytics is useful when you want to analyze discrete data collected over time, such as stock market...
Database Server Room

Vertica Best Practices: Identifying Queries for DBD

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
March 26, 2015

The Vertica Database Designer is a tool that analyzes a logical schema definition, sample queries, and sample data, and creates a physical schema (projections) in the form of a SQL script that you deploy automatically or manually. The result is an optimized database with optimal query performance and data compression.

What Is a Range Join and Why Is It So Fast?

ChuckB
January 20, 2015

Last week, I was at the 2015 Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), held at the beautiful Asilomar Conference Grounds. The picture above shows one of the many gorgeous views you won't see when you watch other people do PowerPoint presentations. One Vertica user at the conference said he saw a ?range join? in...

Tech Support Series: Optimizing Projections

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
December 10, 2014

Welcome to another installment of our Top Tech Support Questions Answered blog series. In our first

Optimizing for Merge Join

NorbertK
October 22, 2014

In an earlier post,
Modern Database Analytics

Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 5: Acceptance

Walt_Maguire
August 18, 2014

Over the last month or so, this series has discussed how organizations often deal with a missed big data opportunity in ways that closely resemble the grieving process, and how that process maps to the commonly understood five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This is the last entry in the series;...
Programmer

Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 4: Depression

Walt_Maguire
August 4, 2014

Continuing the five part series which explores how organizations coping with big data often go through a process that closely resembles grief, this segment addresses the point at which the organization finally grasps the reality of big data and realizes the magnitude of the opportunity and challenge?and gets depressed about the reality of it.

Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 3: Bargaining

Walt_Maguire
July 30, 2014

Continuing the five part series about the stages of big-data grief that organizations experience, this segment focuses on the first time organizations explore the reality of the challenges and opportunities presented by big data and start to work their way forward?with bargaining.

Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 2: Anger

Walt_Maguire
July 23, 2014

Continuing this five part series focused on how organizations frequently go through the five stages of grief when confronting big data challenges, this post will focus on the second stage: anger.
Database Server Room

Physical Design Automation in the Vertica Analytic Database

ramakrishna
July 21, 2014

Automatic physical database design is a challenging task. Different customers have different requirements and expectations, bounded by their resource constraints. To deal with these challenges in Vertica, we adopt a customizable approach by allowing users to tailor their designs for specific scenarios and applications. To meet different customer requirements, any physical database design tool should...