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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...
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Convenience But at What Cost?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 25, 2018

Convenience is so important to me. Move quickly and get things done. That’s probably why I am so addicted to Amazon Prime despite the fact that I could save money if I would just do a little research and find better prices for the things I buy. My impatience and one click buyer behavior is...

Master Blog Series : Vertica in Eon Mode

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 23, 2018

This post was authored by Soniya Shah. In Vertica 9.0 we introduced Eon Mode. Since then, there have been many improvements in recent releases. Vertica in Eon Mode is a new architecture that separates compute and storage, allowing users to take advantage of cloud economics that enable rapid scaling and shrinking of clusters in response...

Vertica Quick Tip: Keepalive settings for AWS Network Load Balancer

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
July 18, 2018

Serge Bonte authored this post. Network Load Balancers are one of the three types of load balancers supported by Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancing. See: Since load balancers act as a proxy between clients (such as JDBC) and Vertica servers, it is important to understand how AWS’s NLB handle idle timeouts for connections. The idle timeout...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Metering

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 17, 2018

Every month, my husband receives a driver’s report from Chevrolet, providing him with “feedback” on his driving behavior – everything from the intensity of his braking to the number of lane changes without a blinker to the distance and speed he drove in his Silverado truck. The report also provides specific details on the upcoming...

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...
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IMPORTANT: Vertica and Amazon Linux 2.0 gcc Compatibility Problems

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
May 31, 2018

This blog post was authored by Monica Cellio, with Serge Bonte. The Vertica binaries are compiled using the default version of g++ installed on the supported Linux platforms. Vertica requires a minimum of gcc version 4.8.4. The default version of g++ on Amazon Linux 2.0 is not compatible with gcc 4.8.4. To be able to...

Reusing EBS Volumes

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 24, 2018

This blog post was authored by Mark Hayden. You can deploy a Vertica cluster running in Eon or Enterprise mode using EC2 instances that support EBS volumes. This document provides the steps you need to use EBS volumes that were preserved from a Vertica cluster that was terminated, and how to reattach them to revive...

Vertica in Eon Mode: Revive

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 23, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. Overview An Eon Mode database keeps an updated version of its data and metadata in a communal storage location. After you shut down the database, the data continues to reside in communal storage. When you are ready to use the storage again, you can revive the database...

Understanding Vertica Eon Mode

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 17, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. This blog post is updated as of July 2018. With Eon mode, Vertica is a database that takes advantage of all elastic compute and scalable storage capabilities in the cloud. In Eon mode, Vertica can take advantage of cloud economics – it can be made to scale...
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Introducing the Eon Mode Concept

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
May 16, 2018

Vertica was born at a tipping point in the world of Enterprise Data Warehouses. It was designed from the first line of code to address new levels of data volumes and analytical performance. But it was also designed to break the tightly integrated hardware and software appliances offered by industry leaders at the time including...

Sizing Your Vertica Cluster for an Eon Mode Database

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
May 15, 2018

This blog post was authored by Shrirang Kamat. Vertica in Eon Mode is a new architecture that separates compute and storage, allowing users to take advantage of cloud economics that enable rapid scaling and shrinking of clusters in response to a variable workload. Eon Mode decouples the cluster size from the data volume and lets...