Understanding Vertica Licenses

Vertica has flexible licensing terms. It can be licensed on the following bases:

• Term-based (valid until a specific date).
• Size-based (valid to store up to a specified amount of raw data).
• Both term- and size-based.
• Unlimited duration and data storage.
• Node-based with an unlimited number of CPUs and users (one node is a server acting as a single computer system, whether physical or virtual).
• A pay-as-you-go model where you pay for only the number of hours you use. This license is available on the AWS Marketplace. For more information see Overview of Vertica on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Vertica Community Edition is free and allows customers the following:

• 3 node limit
• 1 terabyte data limit

Community Edition licenses cannot be installed co-located in a Hadoop infrastructure and used to query data stored in Hadoop formats.

Vertica for SQL on Apache Hadoop is a separate product with its own license. This documentation covers both products. Consult your license agreement for details about available features and limitations.

Your license key has your licensing bases encoded into it. If you are unsure of your current license, you can view your license information from within Vertica.