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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...

Using Looker to Leverage Vertica Capabilities: ORC Reader, Flex Tables, and Place

BD_Partner_Eng
December 8, 2015

Want some hints about how to use Looker to visualize data in your Vertica database? The Looker user community, known as

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.