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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s big news today, on the first day of the Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever...
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Fill the Gaps on Your Team with BDC Sponsors

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
March 4, 2020

Jeff Healey’s post about Larry Bird got me thinking about analytics in sports. When I was in graduate school, I attended a sports analytics conference sponsored by MIT. As you may know, Major League Baseball has compiled dozens of statistics over the years, and at that time was adding new ones that had never been...
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Pennard, We Have a Problem – Troubleshooting Flight Tracking with the Grafana Plugin for Vertica

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
February 26, 2020

With Vertica’s Management Console, I have everything I need at my fingertips to manage and monitor my Vertica clusters and databases.  Whether that be investigating query performance issues, checking on the health of the cluster’s nodes, running the Database Designer or marveling at the volume of data being ingested by the Vertica Scheduler from a...
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The Kafka Convergence

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
January 20, 2020

Apache Kafka seems to be everywhere these days. I’m feeling a bit surrounded by Kafka right now, in fact, like I’m at the center of a convergence of the planets, and data flowing through Kafka is the gravitational pull. Let me give you an idea of what I mean. So, Vertica just announced the release...
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2 – What Are the Benefits of Using Complex Data Types in SQL?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
December 19, 2019

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. In this second post in the Complex Data Types blog series, let’s look at some of the reasons complex types are used extensively in organized big data formats like ORC and Parquet. Be sure to read the first post in this series where we discussed the what complex data...
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1 – What are Complex Data Types?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
October 28, 2019

Co-authored by James Clampffer, Deepak Majeti. - First in a series A lot of projects require querying ORC or Parquet files, or other data that may have internal types that are a bit more complex than usual. It’s a little hard to explain what we mean when we say, “complex.” So, this is the first in...
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Vertica and Amazon – Better Together, for Years

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
October 23, 2019

The year was 2012. Marvel’s The Avengers hit the box office. Facebook went public. NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars. And, the Vertica AMI (Amazon Machine Image) made its debut on AWS Marketplace, enabling data-driven organizations to easily deploy Vertica on the Amazon cloud and start accelerating their analytics. Running Vertica on...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The winds of change have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon...
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Datadog Announces Integration with Vertica to Monitor Performance and Availability

Jeremiah Morrow, Senior Industry Product Marketing Manager
October 14, 2019

Datadog helps customers ensure high performance and availability of their applications by providing visibility into the full application stack: infrastructure, middleware, and applications. They have achieved this by building a robust set of turn-key integrations that include SaaS and Cloud solutions, automation tools, databases and server components, and many more. Now, they have announced integration...

Vertica Big Data Conference Registration is Open!

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
September 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that registration is live for the next Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC), held March 30 – April 2, 2020, at the Encore Boston Harbor Hotel. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing rate of $695 (a $300 savings), along with buy 3 get 1 free group discounts!   What is...
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The Right Tool for the Job: Using Apache Hadoop with Vertica for Big Data Analytics

Chana Zolty
July 26, 2016

I have an entrepreneur friend who used to carry a butter knife around.  He claimed this “almighty” tool was the only one he ever needed!  While the butter knife does serve a wide range of purposes (especially with a stretch of the imagination), in practice it doesn't’ always yield optimal results.  For example, as a...

Jump Start your ETL Application Development with Vertica

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June 15, 2016

Interested in exploring the Vertica Analytic Database in the context of data movement and transformation? To get a feel for it, try our new ETL QuickStart sample apps. You'll find them on the Big Data Marketplace. Our Partner Engineering team develops QuickStart apps using tools from our technology partners. Currently we have ETL QuickStarts for...