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Going Beyond a Data Lakehouse

David Sprogis, Director of Product Management
December 15, 2021

The way things get named in this industry can be pretty odd.  A lot of people have been hearing noise about how cool a “Data Lakehouse” is since it combines the power of a data lake with the power of a data warehouse. When I think of a lakehouse, I think of a great place...

Don’t take your foot off the electrons

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
November 8, 2021

With blazingly fast query performance, and access to 700 in-database functions, Vertica has meant that Jaguar Race Engineers and Strategists have been able to glean important insights into the data and make critical performance adjustments to the powertrain, suspension, steering, braking and power management that were just not possible prior to the introduction of Vertica.

Technology Partnership with Jaguar Racing to Deliver Vertica Analytics at Jaguar Speed

Jeff Healey, Senior Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
February 18, 2021

Jaguar Racing announced that it has partnered with Micro Focus, ahead of season seven of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Joining as the team’s official digital transformation, business resiliency, and analytics partner, Micro Focus will provide support to Jaguar Racing’s push for more points, podiums, and wins on the racetrack. Vertica plays a...

DX Radio Episode 3: Climate Corporation and Digital Agriculture

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 29, 2020

I have the honor of hosting the latest episode of DX Radio. It features The Climate Corporation’s Daniel McCaffrey, Vice president of Data and Analytics, and Erich Hochmuth, Big Data Architect Engineer, as they explore the digital transformation of farming.

Constellation Research Report Finds Vertica 10 a Leading Choice

Mike Perrow, Senior Product Marketing Writer/Editor
September 14, 2020

A few pages into a new, detailed overview of Vertica 10, produced by Constellation Research, principle analyst Doug Henschen summarizes the top new capabilities of Vertica 10 like this: In short, the Vertica team has steadily evolved the product to keep pace with the demands of organizations that seek to do the following: Unify diverse...

Take Nothing but Memories. Leave Nothing but Footprints

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
August 25, 2020

For those who have read my previous blog postings, attended one of our Big Data & Machine Learning Meetups, or have met me at one of the many trade shows or conferences over the years, you will be all too aware of my love for tracking aircraft using a Raspberry Pi, Kafka and Vertica. For...
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“awk” sed Grep, “whoami?”. Time CC if bash makes head or tail and sort > plain.txt and make us API

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
July 13, 2020

Things to do whilst confined to barracks due to COVID-19 For those who know me well, having worked in IT for four decades, will know that I can be a bit of a Luddite when it comes to new-fangled technology. Give me a character-based, green-screen PuTTY application over any pointy-clicky interface.  Let me use vsql...
Flight Tracking

Pennard, We Have a Problem – Troubleshooting Flight Tracking with the Grafana Plugin for Vertica

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
February 26, 2020

With Vertica’s Management Console, I have everything I need at my fingertips to manage and monitor my Vertica clusters and databases.  Whether that be investigating query performance issues, checking on the health of the cluster’s nodes, running the Database Designer or marveling at the volume of data being ingested by the Vertica Scheduler from a...
Planets in solar system

The Kafka Convergence

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
January 20, 2020

Apache Kafka seems to be everywhere these days. I’m feeling a bit surrounded by Kafka right now, in fact, like I’m at the center of a convergence of the planets, and data flowing through Kafka is the gravitational pull. Let me give you an idea of what I mean. So, Vertica just announced the release...
Santa flying over night sky

Tracking Santa’s Flight Plan

Mark Whalley, Manager, Vertica Education
December 20, 2019

You probably all know of my love for Live Flight tracking using a Raspberry Pi (or more precisely a plethora of them) and Vertica. Although I started flight tracking around 2012, my interest grew when I saw this from NATS (National Air Traffic Services) https://vimeo.com/110348926 - a series of great video clips from UK, Middle...

Vertica on the Road! Using Vertica to Prepare and Analyze Vehicle Telematics Data

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

Vehicles generate a lot of data from onboard electronics and there is increasing interest in monitoring vehicle handling to help assess insurance risk and premiums. At Vertica, we're working with a few auto manufacturers, so I built this demo to show a relatively simple example of data collection, aggregation and preparation, and analysis of the...
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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...