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Sizing Your Vertica Cluster for an Eon Mode Database

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...
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Unlock Data Analytics for Dynamic Workloads with Vertica 9.1

This blog post was authored by Sanjay Baronia. Today, cloud infrastructure has made it easier for organizations to consume services and deploy business applications with a pay-as-you-go, OPEX model. This provides a number of incentives to move data to the cloud, especially for variable workloads and use cases that require heavy compute for finite periods...

Vertica Quick Tip: Eon Mode

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. You can now deploy a Vertica cluster with an Eon Mode database instead of an Enterprise mode database. In Enterprise Mode, the original Vertica "share nothing" configuration, each database node stores a portion of the data and performs a portion of the computation. In Eon Mode, computational...

Vertica in Eon Mode Paper Accepted for ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference

Every year, the ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference is held as a forum for database researchers, developers, and users to explore innovations in the field and exchange ideas. The conference is an opportunity for thought leaders to talk with each other and hear from one another through presentations, workshops, and tutorials. This year, Ben Vandiver, Shreya Prasad,...

Vertica in Eon Mode: Tables, Parameters, Functions, and Useful Queries

This blog post was authored by Rakesh Bankula. The purpose of this document is to list new system tables, configuration parameters and meta-functions that were added for Vertica Eon mode. This document also has sample queries you can run on the new system tables to get up to speed with Eon mode. This document assumes...

Running an Eon Mode Database: Live in Vertica 9.1

This blog post was authored by Sarah Lemaire. Before now, you could only operate your Vertica database in Enterprise Mode, the traditional Vertica architecture where your data is distributed across the local nodes. Now, Vertica 9.1, released in April, 2018, allows you to operate your database in Eon Mode, which was previously released as beta...

What’s New in Vertica 9.1?

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...
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Operational Considerations for Database Administrators in Eon Mode

This blog post was authored by Shrirang Kamat. The purpose of this document is to familiarize advanced Vertica Enterprise mode users about some of the behavioral similarities and differences between Vertica Enterprise mode and Vertica Eon mode. This document assumes you have a basic understanding about Eon mode architecture. You can find more details about...

Vertica Eon Mode: Caching

This blog post was co-authored by Pratibha Rana and Ben Vandiver. Running every query directly against the data in shared storage would result in poor performance and subject the shared storage to heavy load. Eon mode in Vertica introduces a cache called the Depot that avoids reading from the shared storage for frequently used data...

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Introducing Vertica 9

About this webinar: Join us for an exciting and highly informative look at the newest and most powerful release of Vertica. Vertica 9 delivers high-performance in-database machine learning and advanced analytics anywhere, anytime, on any major cloud. This latest release also offers direct querying of Parquet data on AWS S3, support for Google Cloud Platform...

Cloning a Vertica Cluster to AWS

This enhancement to the