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Using the Vertica ORC Reader with Business Intelligence Tools

M_Warner
August 6, 2015

What we are going to discuss is the new functionality introduced in Vertica 7.1 SP2 that allows customers to access files in HDFS stored in ORC format and achieve significant performance benefits compared to raw text files.

The Benefits of Vertica for SQL on Hadoop

Wei Wang
July 13, 2015

If you store large data sets in Hadoop, you undoubtedly face many challenges in managing and analyzing that data. Did you know that Vertica for SQL on Hadoop can help ? Check out the scenario that follows to learn how.

Facebook and Vertica: A Case for MPP Databases

Po Hong
April 18, 2014

I have just come back from a business trip to China where I visited several large Chinese telecom customers to talk about the recent big Vertica win at Facebook. Two questions these customers had constantly asked me were: What?s the future of MPP databases? Will Hadoop become one database that rules the whole analytic space?