HP Vertica Essentials

Abstract

Column-oriented databases have emerged as one of the leading solutions for performing analytics on a huge amount of data. Vertica, recently acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP), is one of the flag bearers in the field of distributed-column-oriented databases. Vertica can be easily classified as a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database, which allows to you process queries concurrently on a large number of databases. Vertica's distributed architecture not only allows fast query processing, but also a highly fault tolerant architecture. With innovative features such as projections, a replacement for indexes, and views, Vertica has emerged as one of the most sought after relational analytical database solutions.