Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company . The grid-based, column-oriented, Vertica Analytic Database is designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications. Its design features include:
The Vertica Analytic Database runs on grids of Linux-based commodity servers. It is also available as an analytic database a...
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Vertica Systems is an analytic database management software company . The grid-based, column-oriented, Vertica Analytic Database is designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications. Its design features include:
The Vertica Analytic Database runs on grids of Linux-based commodity servers. It is also available as an analytic database appliance through HP resellers, and as a hosted DBMS provisioned by and running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Several of Vertica’s product innovations were originally prototyped within the C-Store column-oriented database database, an academic open source research project at MIT and other universities.
The overall approach shows promise in significantly increasing query performance in data warehouses. A use case detailed in One Size Fits All? Part 2: Benchmarking Results (sect. 3.1) shows a performance improvement of hundreds of times...
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