Using This Guide

Getting Started shows how to set up a Vertica database and run simple queries that perform common database tasks.

Who Should Use This Guide?

Getting Started targets anyone who wants to learn how to create and run a Vertica database. This guide requires no special knowledge at this point, although a rudimentary knowledge of basic SQL commands is useful when you begin to run queries.

What You Need

The examples in this guide require one of the following:

  • Vertica installed on one host or a cluster of hosts. Vertica recommends a minimum of three hosts in the cluster.
  • Vertica installed on a virtual machine (VM).

For further instructions about installation, see Installing Vertica.

Accessing Your Database

You access your database with an SSH client or the terminal utility in your Linux console, such as vsql. Throughout this guide, you use the following user interfaces: