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Vertica Version 10 Launches Today!

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 31, 2020

There’s big news today, on the first day of the Virtual Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – a major new version of Vertica blasts off! Vertica version 10 soars straight into the greatest deployment flexibility of any analytical data warehouse on the market. This fast and extremely scalable platform gives you more power than ever...
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Saving an Apache Spark DataFrame to a Vertica Table

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 14, 2018

Before you save an Apache Spark DataFrame to a Vertica table, make sure that you have the following setup: • Vertica cluster • Spark cluster • HDFS cluster. The Vertica Spark connector uses HDFS as an intermediate storage before it writes the DataFrame to Vertica. This checklist identifies potential problems you might encounter when using...

What’s New in Vertica 9.1?

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 30, 2018

This blog post was authored by Soniya Shah. In Vertica 9.1 we introduce new functionality including: • Eon Mode, now available in production environments • Machine Learning Enhancements • Management Console Updates • Voltage SecureData Integration • Python UDTF • AWS Licensing Updates • Security Updates • Upgrade and Installation Changes • S3 Session Parameter...

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...
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Integrating with Apache Spark

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
September 27, 2017

The Vertica Connector for Apache Spark is a fast parallel connector that allows you to use Apache Spark for pre-processing data. Apache Spark is an open-source, general purpose, cluster-computing framework. The Spark framework is based on Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), which are logical collections of data partitioned across machines. For more information, see the Apache...

Introducing the Connector for Apache Spark

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
September 26, 2016

In Vertica version 8.0.0, we added integration for Apache Spark through our Vertica Connector for Apache Spark. This is a fast parallel connector that allows you to transfer data between Apache Spark and Vertica.