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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big 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 Big Data Conference 2020 – Are You Excited Yet?

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
October 25, 2019

The Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC) clock is ticking and my excitement is growing by the minute! I want to make sure that our Vertica community is up to date on the latest news, especially some of the General Session speakers and Breakout tracks. And let’s not forget one of the most special components of...
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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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The Vertica SQL Driver for Go

Roger Huebner, Distinguished Engineer
July 11, 2019

We are happy to announce the alpha release of the Vertica SQL Driver for Go. Go, also called GoLang, is a statically-typed, high performance language, syntactically similar to C. Originating at Google, it has grown rapidly in popularity over the past decade and has become a language of choice for highspeed components. The Vertica SQL...
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1 – Why Would You Do Machine Learning in a Database?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern scalable analytical databases like Vertica allow you to do machine learning data analytics from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 6. Advantages of In-Database Machine Learning

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 13, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. This is the final installment of the discussion. It was a lot of fun catching up and talking shop. In this final interview post, we talked about some of the advantages of doing...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 5. Vertica, KNIME, Python and the New Uber Created Vertica-Python Interface

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 11, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In this post, we discuss how open source and Vertica interact, with focus on...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 4. How You Can Help With Your Favorite Open Source Project Without Being an Expert

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 7, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In this post, Potts gives a few tips on how anyone who...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 3. Exciting News for Upcoming Python Release 3.8

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 6, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In the first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages...
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Open Source Software is Free, Like a Puppy

Joy King, VP Product & GTM Strategy, Vertica
March 4, 2019

Open source software has a long and inspiring history. In the very early days of software itself, academic collaboration was the norm. But in the late 70’s and early 80’s, manufacturers increasingly copyrighted their technologies, protected their source code, and required licensed use of software. The era of commercial software was born. Freedom! Richard Stallman...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 2. Advantages of KNIME and Letting Databases Do What Databases Do Best

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 27, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this second post, we discuss the advantages of KNIME for a...