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OpenText Vertica 23.3 – the Smarter Data Lakehouse

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

The latest release of the Vertica analytical database, now OpenTextTM VerticaTM  includes a lot of features that Vertica customers have been eagerly awaiting like: Resharding the database as needed Rollback snapshots that capture a moment in time without a whole other data copy Workload routing so you can automate directing specific queries to just the right...
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Monitor your Vertica Metrics in Prometheus Using the New Vertica Prometheus Exporter

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
October 31, 2022

Looking to visualize Vertica metrics in your favorite monitoring tool that supports Prometheus? You can now do it with the Vertica Prometheus Exporter! We are happy to announce the Vertica Prometheus Exporter, an open-source project now available on Vertica’s GitHub. The exporter uses the vertica-sql-go driver to connect to Vertica. Prometheus is a monitoring system...
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Announcing the Availability of Vertica JavaScript Driver (vertica-nodejs)

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
September 30, 2022

This post is authored by Bill Jones and Danny Mickens. What is Node.js? Wikipedia defines Node.js as an “open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications”. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application...
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Unleash the Power of Vertica and Apache Spark Using the Upgraded Spark Connector

Arash Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
September 16, 2022

This post is authored by Alex Le What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a distributed compute engine that provides a robust API for data science, machine learning, or to work with big data. It is fast, scalable, simple, and supports multiple languages, including Python, SQL, Scala, Java, and R. Backed by the Apache 2.0...

VerticaPy Unify 2022 Sessions

Badr Ouali, Head of Data Science
June 21, 2022

Vertica Unify 2022 is a great time to learn about Vertica, its new features, and best practices. To complement the many great presentations at Vertica Unify 2022 both in Boston and Paris, I’m very excited to present two sessions: one on VerticaPy best practices, and another general session on VerticaPy and its features. VerticaPy is...
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Vertica and Jenkins Integration

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
March 17, 2022

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...

Vertica Stories from China: Top 3 contest winners showcase innovation

Elyzabeth Eng
February 1, 2022

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...
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Going Beyond a Data Lakehouse

David Sprogis, Director of Product Management
December 15, 2021

The way things get named in this industry can be pretty odd.  A lot of people have been hearing noise about how cool a “Data Lakehouse” is since it combines the power of a data lake with the power of a data warehouse. When I think of a lakehouse, I think of a great place...

Announcing Vertica Version 11

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
August 11, 2021

Vertica Unified Analytics Platform version 11 delivers GA support for Docker containers and Kubernetes, advanced machine learning and time series capabilities, and increased analytical performance.

Vertica and Grafana – A New Partnership

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
August 3, 2021

You asked and we heard you big time!!! We are very excited to announce our official partnership with Grafana  and the launch of the signed Vertica Grafana Plugin. Grafana is an open-source analytics tool that enables you to visualize and query data in real-time. Its informative dashboards allow you to view data from different sources....

Announcing Vertica Integration with Querybook

Amrita Akshay, Information Developer
July 29, 2021

We are pleased to announce the integration of Vertica with Querybook. Querybook is an open-source IDE developed by Pinterest that allows you to query data, create analyses, and share your queries. Querybook also features a simple notebook interface that lets companies configure query engines, table metadata ingestion, and access permissions. It allows them to create...

Vertica 10.1.1 Goes Beyond Analytics with Support for Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, and Containers

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 30, 2021

With each release of Vertica, you can always count on major enhancements and features to help you address each step of the predictive analytics process with even more analytical functions and end-to-end machine learning capabilities. While Vertica 10.1.1 includes support for the latest version of PMML, 4.4, some useful new analytical functions, and a new...