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Parallel Processing Using Partitions With Vertica UDx

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
October 17, 2019

You can add functionality to Vertica using UDx, but what if you need to process more data than can be efficiently processed in a single thread or a single node? Vertica can divide data into partitions defined with the OVER() clause and distribute computing across nodes. This partition processing is "shared-nothing" similar to the Map...
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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 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 Mode Improvements Eon...
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Extending Vertica with Python functions: Adding NumPy FFT as a UDx

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
October 14, 2019

User-Defined Transform Function (UDTF) support for Python UDx were added back in Vertica 9.1, allowing you to add a much greater range of existing libraries and functions to Vertica. In this example, I'll add Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) from the NumPy package. FFT is a way to transform time-domain data into frequency-domain data. My test...
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vertica-python Becomes Vertica’s First Officially Supported Open Source Database Client

Phil Molea, Sr. Information Developer, Vertica
August 14, 2018

Tom Wall authored this post. We are very excited to announce that vertica-python, the open source python database client for Vertica created by Uber Technologies Inc., will officially become a supported database client for Vertica! This is a great milestone for Vertica and our community of users and developers. Not only do we expect to...

Using Java UDX in Vertica

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
July 9, 2018

Michael Flower authored this post. Introduction Vertica has a highly extensible UDx framework, which allows external user-defined functions, parsers and data loaders to be installed onto the Vertica server. This means that a routine written in C++, R, Java or Python can be run in-database as a Vertica SQL function. This blog is based on...

Introducing the Vertica ML-Python Library

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 21, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. One of the coolest things about working at Vertica is our amazing intern program, which often leads to full-time hires. Last year, the Vertica-ML-Python library, also known as vpython, was started as an internship project by Badr Ouali. A year later, he works for Vertica full time...

How to Code Vertica UDx

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 12, 2018

This blog post was authored by Ding-Qiang Liu. In analytic businesses supported by Vertica, complex processing logic is sometimes unavoidable. Using ANSI SQL might cause query strings to be much longer, and will slow the query with a huge volume data to query. If using Vertica SDKs, you can encapsulate that general computing logic in...