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Announcing the Availability of Grafana Data Source Plugin for Vertica

Stephen Crossman, SW Engineering(Systems) - Partner Engineering
February 3, 2020

The Vertica-Grafana-Plugin is finally here! Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics. Grafana has a repository where plugins are available for many Apps and Data Sources and they promote the development of plugins from the Grafana community. We are pleased to announce the availability of the vertica-grafana-datasource, a community developed...
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Vertica and Amazon – Better Together, for Years

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
October 23, 2019

The year was 2012. Marvel’s The Avengers hit the box office. Facebook went public. NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars. And, the Vertica AMI (Amazon Machine Image) made its debut on , enabling data-driven organizations to easily deploy Vertica on the Amazon cloud and start accelerating their analytics. Running Vertica on Amazon...
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Datadog Announces Integration with Vertica to Monitor Performance and Availability

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
October 14, 2019

Datadog helps customers ensure high performance and availability of their applications by providing visibility into the full application stack: infrastructure, middleware, and applications. They have achieved this by building a robust set of turn-key integrations that include SaaS and Cloud solutions, automation tools, databases and server components, and many more. Now, they have announced integration...

Introducing an Industry First – Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
September 17, 2019

This week at the Pure Accelerate conference, Vertica and Pure Storage of Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage, the industry’s first and only analytical database solution with a separation of compute and storage architecture for on-premises analytic workloads. Why is this important to you? The rush to migrate analytic workloads to the cloud was,...
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Creating Vertica Functions in Third Party Tools

Kathy Taylor, Information Technology Developer, Vertica
July 11, 2019

Third party SQL client tools that connect to Vertica often provide a SQL command window where you can type SQL commands and view the results. Most of these tools’ SQL command windows support issuing multiple commands in a single SQL block, using the semicolon as the command delimiter. Here is an example in : The...
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The Vertica SQL Driver for Go

Roger Huebner, Distinguished Engineer
July 11, 2019

We are happy to announce the alpha release of the Vertica SQL Driver for Go. Go, also called GoLang, is a statically-typed, high performance language, syntactically similar to C. Originating at Google, it has grown rapidly in popularity over the past decade and has become a language of choice for highspeed components. The Vertica SQL...
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Data-Centric Security Rules

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
June 27, 2019

I just attended the for the first time. I spoke a little on a small panel with a couple of customers about and Format Preserving Encryption (FPE). Then I got to go to other presentations and learned a lot. Probably the number one presentation that stuck with me, was of , the presenter who put...
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JetBrains DataGrip Offers New Vertica Connector

Kathy Taylor, Information Technology Developer, Vertica
June 25, 2019

We are pleased to announce that JetBrains has released a Vertica connector for DataGrip! The connector, , allows SQL developers to use DataGrip to interact with Vertica. DataGrip uses Vertica’s JDBC driver to connect to Vertica. For details about connecting DataGrip to Vertica, see . is a database IDE that offers efficient schema navigation, an...

Vertica Dialect for Hibernate Updated!

Kathy Taylor, Information Technology Developer, Vertica
January 31, 2019

The Vertica dialect for Hibernate, updated for Vertica 9.2 and Hibernate 5.4.1, is now available for download. The dialect enables Hibernate to map Java classes to database tables in Vertica. Hibernate is an open-source, Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework for Java environments. With Hibernate, developers can create an object library that encapsulates object/relational mapping information for...

Plotting data with vsql and gnuplot

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
December 6, 2018

Maurizio Felici authored this post. We all know how plotting data is a very useful – and widely adopted – technique. Linux (and MacOS) offer a wonderful command line tool to plot data called gnuplot. You can install and run gnuplot on one of your Vertica nodes so you don’t have to move data out...

Microsoft Power BI: Latest Release Enhances Connection to Vertica

Kathy Taylor, Information Technology Developer, Vertica
November 12, 2018

We are excited to announce the new Vertica connector introduced in the October 2018 release of Microsoft Power BI: • With PowerBI Desktop, Vertica is now fully supported using DirectQuery Mode (push-down optimization). • With Power BI Service (Cloud Offering - Saas), DirectQuery mode is now supported with Vertica using the Power BI On-Premises Gateway....

DbVisualizer Free for Vertica Distribution Updates

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
October 8, 2018

Stephen Crossman authored this post Recently, there have been some changes in how DbVisualizer Free for Vertica is distributed. Previously, there were standard DbVisualizer Free and Pro Edition distributions available on the DbVisualizer web site, and there was a special DbVisualizer Free for Vertica distribution available on the Vertica Marketplace. Now, in an effort to...