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Vertica and Qlik Team Up to Hack for a Cause

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
August 17, 2015

On November 17 2014, Vertica took part in the annual Qlik Hackathon in Orlando, Florida. The hackathon, which took place the day before the Qlik World Conference, brought together engineers, developers, and Qlik experts from all over the world. The challenge was simple: leverage features from Qlik and its partners to create an application to...

Using the Vertica ORC Reader with Business Intelligence Tools

M_Warner
August 6, 2015

What we are going to discuss is the new functionality introduced in Vertica 7.1 SP2 that allows customers to access files in HDFS stored in ORC format and achieve significant performance benefits compared to raw text files.

The Benefits of Vertica for SQL on Hadoop

Wei Wang
July 13, 2015

If you store large data sets in Hadoop, you undoubtedly face many challenges in managing and analyzing that data. Did you know that Vertica for SQL on Hadoop can help ? Check out the scenario that follows to learn how.

Automatic Vertica Database Loader for AWS S3

Bob_Strahan
June 25, 2015

Are you using Amazon Web Services for your Vertica cluster(s)? Are you staging your source data files on AWS S3 storage? If so, this AWS S3 loader for Vertica may be just the thing for you! It will automatically pick up files as they are dropped into S3, and load them into target tables in...

Vertica Storage Location for HDFS

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
January 27, 2015

Do you find yourself running low on disk space on your Vertica database? You could delete older data, but that sacrifices your ability to perform historical queries. You could add new nodes to your cluster or add storage to your existing nodes. However, these options require additional expense.The Vertica Storage Locations for HDFS feature introduced...