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OpenText Vertica 23.3 – the Smarter Data Lakehouse

Posted July 31, 2023 by Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager

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Unveiling the Most Recent Version of the Vertica Grafana Data Source Plugin

With over 380K downloads, the Vertica Grafana Data Source plugin just got an upgrade! The plugin was migrated from the deprecated older Grafana toolkit to align with Grafana's new Create-Plugin tool. This accelerates the plugin development with their modern build set up that requires no additional configuration. Additionally, the Vertica SQL Go driver received an...
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Setting Session Authorization to Troubleshoot

There are possible scenarios in which a dbadmin would want to run queries as another user to troubleshoot or test. You can use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to impersonate another user and run queries. Let's understand this with an example. Here we create a user named test, resource pool named userpool, and make this a default...
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Announcing Our New Partnership with Einblick

We are excited to announce our recent partnership with Einblick. Einblick is a German word that means insight. This is exactly what Einblick does! It is an integrated data computing platform that enables you to see your data throughout the analytics process. You can quickly build predictive models using their advanced AutoML engine and make...

Take the Baseball Data Analysis Challenge with Vertica Machine Learning

Today is Opening Day of the 2022 Major League Baseball (MLB) season. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised as a fan of the Boston Red Sox, who play at historic Fenway Park, just six or so miles from our Vertica headquarters in Cambridge. Baseball data is mostly transaction data describing the statistical events...

Breaking Through with Data – Climate wins Predictive Analytics Innovation Award

There are many impressive stories of data-driven organizations that use Vertica to derive near-instant analytical insight from troves of data. And many of those analytical use cases have a positive impact on our lives. But, there’s always that one profound story that makes us pause, that fills us with hope for how analytics and machine...

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Analytics for the Games Industry: New paper describes a winning hand

Are you an online gamer, and – because you’re reading this blog – a “big data” enthusiast as well? Then you know very well that, when you’re playing, you’re fully immersed in the game, and the backend tech is of no concern. You’re grappling your way up a cliff in “Hang Line,” or taking pride...
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Vertica and Dataddo – New Partnership

We are very excited to announce our official partnership with Dataddo. Dataddo is a cloud-based data integration platform that connects data from online data services and multiple sources to any BI tool or database. You can quickly connect your data source to Vertica using Dataddo’s Vertica named connector. Check out the connection to Vertica as...
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Vertica and Jenkins Integration

We are excited to announce that Vertica now integrates with Jenkins. This connection enables Jenkins to access data in Vertica using the vsql application. Jenkins is an open-source tool that enables you to automate the entire software development lifecycle including continuous integration of building, testing, and deployment. Check out the integration guide in our Knowledge...

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Cloud Without Compromises

Most organizations are spinning up new analytical workloads and the big industry pundits all say they should move them to the cloud. Whether your workload requirement is for business intelligence, machine learning, or both, the cloud is the place to do it. But a lot of analytical databases on the cloud are giant black boxes....

New O’Reilly Book: Accelerate Machine Learning with a Unified Analytics Architecture

Every company I’ve ever encountered needs business intelligence (BI). Increasingly, in multiple industries, more and more also need machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) to stay competitive or gain an edge. Eventually, it should be as easy for an organization to put an ML model to work as it is to put a new...

Every second counts in Jaguar Racing Formula E

Races can be won or lost with fractions of seconds separating first, second, and third. Many factors determine who stands on the podium, awarded with points and champagne, and who returns to the pit on a recovery truck. One factor that plays a critical role in helping Sam or Mitch win that race is optimal...

Vertica Stories from China: Top 3 contest winners showcase innovation

This past December and January, the Vertica team for the Asia-Pacific region conducted a story contest for Chinese-speaking Vertica customers using creative solutions to data analytics requirements. In addition to reaching out and learning more about Vertica customers in the region, we wanted to gather use case details and share them with the worldwide Vertica...

More G2 recognition from our Vertica customers!

We don’t mean to gloat. Really. It’s just that the G2 Winter 2022 badges are out, and since our last round of badges from G2, we have received a couple of new ones. Those include the “Fastest Implementation – Enterprise,” and the “High Performer” categories. It’s good to know that actual customer experience with Vertica...

New EMEA business survey reveals challenges in the move to predictive analytics

To discover today’s cloud and data analytics trends across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Vertica recently surveyed 240 data experts from industry-leading organizations in these regions. We wanted to learn how businesses are leveraging data analytics and what challenges they are facing when implementing predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities in...