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Facebook and Vertica: A Case for MPP Databases

I have just come back from a business trip to China where I visited several large Chinese telecom customers to talk about the recent big Vertica win at Facebook. Two questions these customers had constantly asked me were: What?s the future of MPP databases? Will Hadoop become one database that rules the whole analytic space?






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Top 10 Highlights from the Virtual Vertica BDC 2020

While it was a difficult decision to take the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 virtual, the registration numbers, session reviews, and overall feedback confirmed that this was our most successful […]



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Take Vertica and Call Me in the Morning

Last night, at 1:37 am, I found myself awake and thinking about Vertica. To anyone who knows me, this should come as no surprise. I was thinking about how different […]


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Vertica 9

This blog post was authored by Steve Sarsfield. The Vertica development team has just released Version 9.0. With every major release it gives me time to not only look back […]


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Configuring Vertica for a Multi-Tenant Solution

One of the more interesting and popular Vertica solutions that I’ve come across is the so-called multi-tenant implementation. A multi-tenant database is simply a database designed to support multiple unique customers. Often, these customers interact with the database through some sort of web interface which uses an Vertica database in the backend.



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Vertica for Time Series Analytics and IoT

When you want to make a prediction – stocking levels for items in your store, predicting energy usage so supply is ready, or being proactive about equipment failures – those […]