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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, 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, 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...
Cute cartoon puppy with Free Puppy sign

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, 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...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 1. On Becoming a Core Python Committer and the Tools Used to Build Data Science

Paige, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 26, 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 first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages...

Plotting data with vsql and gnuplot

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
December 6, 2018

Maurizio Felici authored this post. We all know how plotting data is a very useful – and widely adopted – technique. Linux (and MacOS) offer a wonderful command line tool to plot data called gnuplot. You can install and run gnuplot on one of your Vertica nodes so you don’t have to move data out...

Exporting to Parquet: Quick Tip

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 29, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this tip. Vertica can export a table, columns from a table, or query results to files in the Parquet format. dbadmin=> EXPORT TO PARQUET (directory = '/home/dbadmin/dim') AS SELECT * FROM dim; Rows Exported --------------- 1 (1 row) One restriction is the path to export must not exist. How do I get...

Introducing the Parallel Streaming Transformation Loader (PSTL) Solution

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
March 19, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. At Vertica, we understand how important it is that our customers can make decisions in near real time. Being able to do this not only requires the massive parallel processing that Vertica offers, but the ability to transform and ingest your data into Vertica as quickly as...