Supported Platforms
This section contains information on updates to supported platforms for Vertica Analytic Database 8.1.x. Administrator's Guide
Changes for Operating System Support
Vertica operating system support changes follow.
Server
Vertica has added support for these operating systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
- CentOS 7.3
- Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 7.3
For a list of all supported operating systems, see Vertica Server and Vertica Management Console.
Vertica has added support for Linux Volume Manager on RHEL 6.8. For information on supported file systems, See Vertica Server and Vertica Management Console. For information on requirements and restrictions, see the section, Vertica Support for LVM.
Vertica has ended support for RHEL 6.5 and CentOS 6.5. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.
Client
Vertica has added support for the following:
- For the ADO.NET, OLE DB, and ODBC clients, Vertica now supports Windows Server 2016.
- For the ODBC and vsql clients, Vertica now supports AIX 7.1 and Mac OS X 10.12.
- Vertica has added a FIPS-compliant (FIPS 140-2) JDBC client driver.
For a complete list of client drivers, see Vertica 8.1.x Client Drivers.
For information on FIPS 140-2 prerequisites, see FIPS 140-2 Supported Platforms.
Vertica has ended support for AIX 5.3, AIX 5.6, and Mac OS X 10.9. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.
ODBC Client Driver Backwards Compatibility
In general, all Vertica clients are forward compatible with later Vertica server versions. For Release 8.1.x, Vertica has added backwards compatibility for the ODBC client driver.
- The 8.1.x ODBC client driver is backwards compatible to Vertica server version 7.1.
- For full compatibility between the 8.1.x ODBC client driver and a previous Vertica server version, Vertica has added a connection string property named Protocol. The Protocol connection string option specifies the front-end protocol that the client and server use to communicate. For more information about the Protocol connection string property, see Data Source Name (DSN) Connection Properties.
Changes for Hadoop and Kafka Distribution Support
Vertica has added support for the following:
- Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.5
- MapR 5.2
- Apache Kafka 0.10
For a list of supported Hadoop distributions, see Vertica Integrations for Hadoop.
For a list of supported Apache Kafka distributions, see Vertica Integration for Apache Kafka.
Vertica has ended support for Cloudera CDH 5.6, Hortonworks HDP 2.3, MapR 4.1 and 5.0, and Apache Kafka 0.8. For more information, refer to End-of-Support and Deprecation Notices.
More Details
For complete information on platform support see Vertica 8.1.x Supported Platforms