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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.
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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...

Workload Management Metrics ? A Golden Triangle

Po Hong
July 17, 2014

Modern databases are often required to process many different kinds of workloads, ranging from short/tactical queries, to medium complexity ad-hoc queries, to long-running batch ETL jobs to extremely complex data mining jobs (See my previous blog on workload classification for more information.) DBAs must ensure that all concurrent workload, along with their respective Service Level...
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Is Big Data Giving You Grief? Part 1: Denial

Walt_Maguire
July 14, 2014

My father passed away recently, and so I?ve found myself in the midst of a cycle of grief. And, in thinking about good blog topics, I realized that many of the organizations I?ve worked with over the years have gone through something very much like grief as they?ve come to confront big data challenges?and the...

The Automagic Pixie

Walt_Maguire
July 7, 2014

In previous installments of this series, I de-bunked some of the more common myths around big data analytics. In this final installment, I?ll address one of the most pervasive and costly myths: that there exists an easy button that organizations can press to automagically solve their big data problems. I?ll provide some insights as to...

Live Aggregate Projections with Vertica

Steve Sarsfield, Vertica Senior Product Marketing Manager – Partner Ecosystem
July 1, 2014

The Dragline release of Vertica offers an exciting new feature that is unique in the world of big data analytics platforms. We now offer Live Aggregate projections as part of the platform. The impact is that you can really fly through certain types of big data analytics that typically grind down any analytics system.

Building Bridges with Gumdrops and Toothpicks

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 26, 2014

In June 2014, the Vertica summer interns headed to the East End House in East Cambridge, MA to work with students through a community service project. Sarah Perkins, a business planner on the Project Management team, organized the project. Since 1875, the East End House has offered innovative programs to the community and continues to...

The Single-Solution Elf

Walt_Maguire
June 25, 2014

In this part of the de-mythification series, I’ll address another common misconception in the big data marketplace: that there exists a single piece of technology that will solve all big data problems. Whereas the first two entries in this series focused on market needs, this will focus more on the vendor side of things in terms of...

A Method for Vertica Workload Classification

Po Hong
June 17, 2014

Modern analytic databases such as Vertica often need to process a myriad of workloads ranging from the simplest primary-key lookup to complex analytical queries that include dozens of large tables and joins between them. Different types of load jobs (such as batch type ETL jobs and near real-time trickle loads) keep the data up-to-date in...

Tech Support Series: Optimizing for Deletes

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
June 11, 2014

This blog is just the first in a series that addresses frequently asked tech support questions. For now, we?ll talk about optimizing your database for deletion.