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Vertica


Vertica is an infrastructure-independent analytics platform. It can be deployed on various platforms like AWS,GCP,Azure...[02]

Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2005 [02]
Project Type
Commercial
Written in
C++
Supported Languages
C++, Java, Perl, Python, R
Derived From
PostgreSQL
Inspired By
C-Store
Operating System
Linux
License
Proprietary

It is designed to provide a relatively high query performance compared with traditional DBMS, also high availability and good scalability can be achieved on commodity hardware can be achieved. It supports good integration with Hadoop, which makes user choose where they want to analyze data.

Database Entry

Vertica


Vertica is an infrastructure-independent analytics platform. It can be deployed on various platforms like AWS,GCP,Azure... It is designed to provide a relatively high query performance compared with traditional DBMS, also high availability and good scalability can be achieved on commodity hardware can be achieved. It supports good integration with Hadoop, which makes user choose where they want to analyze data.[02]

History[02]


Vetica was founded by Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Palmer in 2015. Vertica is derived from C-Store, which is a prototype developed by MIT and few other universities. It was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2011. It also joined Micro Focus in 2017 due to merger between Micro Focus and HP.

Data Model


Query Interface


SQL

Storage Architecture


Storage Model


System Architecture


Citations

2 sources
  1. http://www.vertica.com vertica.com Spam — Check Archive
  2. Vertica - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
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