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.

History

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.

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

System Architecture

Shared-Nothing

Query Interface

SQL

Data Model

Relational

Vertica Logo
Website

http://www.vertica.com/

Developer

Andrew Palmer and Michael Stonebraker

Country of Origin

US

Start Year

2005

Acquired By

HP

Project Type

Commercial

Written in

C++

Supported languages

C++, Java, Perl, Python, R

Derived From

PostgreSQL

Inspired By

C-Store

Operating Systems

Linux

Licenses

Proprietary

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertica