Loading Data into the Database

While your application is running, you load data into your Vertica database on a regular basis. You can collect large amounts of data to load into your database at once, if you can meet your latency service-level agreement (SLA).

Simulate your data-loading operations in a production environment. Make sure to replicate the maximum expected rates of loading and spiking.

The following sections describe how Vertica stores data and how to load data into your database. They also describe how you can tune the processes and monitor the system to prevent performance problems: