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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s , on the first day of the – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever to get industry-changing analytics, including even more advanced...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon Mode Improvements Eon...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.2.1 – Take Analytics Efficiency to the Next Level

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
May 10, 2019

This week, some very cool things have gone into the newest version of the that make your analytics fly and save on your AWS budget. The theme for this release is Improving Vertica in Eon Mode Integration with Amazon S3, and there are a whole bunch of new features designed to do exactly that. But,...
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Vertica Announces Vertica Analytic Database, Eon Mode on Premises, Academic Edition

Chuck Bear, Vertica Chief Architect
April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vertica is pleased to announce Vertica in Eon Mode on Premise, Academic Edition.  Vertica’s director of marketing, Ross Pushback, says “Schools have always utilized personal analytics.” [We think he means “report cards” – ed.]   “Our contribution is the flexibility offered by the separation of compute and storage, which schools...

What’s New in Vertica 9.2?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
December 5, 2018

The latest version of Vertica was released earlier this month and with it comes a host of new features. In Vertica 9.2, we introduced several new features including: Eon Mode Updates Management Console changes Performance improvements Upgrade and installation changes Voltage SecureData updates Management Console Changes These Management Console updates only affect users on AWS....

What’s New in Management Console 9.1

Linda
August 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Lisa Donaghue. In Vertica 9.1, Management Console (MC) introduces improved monitoring for external tables and HCatalog data, and the ability to revive Eon Mode databases in a new cluster. MC also includes management and monitoring capabilities for databases running in Eon Mode, a database mode previously in beta. Eon...

Announcing Vertica in Eon Mode for Amazon Linux 2, now available in AWS Marketplace

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 28, 2018

Vertica is a blazingly fast SQL analytics database, enabling enterprises to access and derive meaningful insight into big data in sub-seconds or minutes rather than hours or days. Vertica powers the world’s most data driven organizations, delivering unmatched speed and scale with the full suite of advanced analytics and in database machine learning. Vertica for...

What’s New in 9.1: Voltage SecureData Integration

Gary Gray, Principal Information Developer
June 6, 2018

Vertica Version 9.1 introduces a new integration with Voltage SecureData. This feature lets you use encryption to protect sensitive data within your Vertica database. It works within your existing database schema and clients. You can even automate data decryption. This automation makes decryption transparent and removes the need to change your existing SQL queries. What...
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What’s New in Vertica 9.1: Python SDK Expands

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 30, 2018

This blog post was authored by Monica Cellio. Using the Vertica SDK, you can write several types of user-defined extensions (UDxs) to add your own customizations. In a previous release the SDK added Python support for one type, scalar functions (UDSFs). In 9.1 we added Python support for transform functions (UDTFs). User-Defined Transform Functions (UDTFs)...

Announcing Vertica 9.x Query Performance Tuning Training

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 29, 2018

This blog post was authored by Drea Brandford. You have had up and running in production for a while now; but you’re noticing that, while your analytic queries are executing far faster than they would in a traditional row-store database, they are still not performing quite as fast as you need them to. Chances are,...

What’s New in Vertica 9.1: Precision-Recall Curve and F1-Score Machine Learning Evaluation Functions

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 14, 2018

This blog post was authored by Ginger Ni. The precision-recall curve is a measure for evaluating binary classifiers. It is a basic measure derived from the confusion matrix. In Vertica 9.1, we provide a new machine learning evaluation function PRC() for calculating precision and recall values from the results of binary classifiers. Along with the...

What’s New in Vertica 9.1?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 30, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. In Vertica 9.1 we introduce new functionality including: • Eon Mode, now available in production environments • Machine Learning Enhancements • Management Console Updates • Voltage SecureData Integration • Python UDTF • AWS Licensing Updates • Security Updates • Upgrade and Installation Changes • S3 Session Parameter...