All Research Sponsored By:Vertica Systems

Increase ROI with better enterprise data warehouse performance
WHITE PAPER: Today, Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) are treasure troves of information and critical for business operations. Access this resource to discover how offloading certain analytics workloads to a third-party platform can increase the performance and longevity of your EDW.
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011


BI is in the Details: How Columnar Technology Leverages the Latent Value in SQL Databases
WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss how Vertica enhances the capabilities of analytical work through the implementation of different architecture for relational database-based analytical work. By simply rotating the orientation of the database from rows to columns, dramatic improvements in load and query speed, scalability and cost effectiveness are achieved.
Posted: 29 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2009


Vertica for Structured Finance
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the increased business challenges in structured finance, the impact on the underlying enabling technologies, and describes how the use of Vertica’s column store, massively parallel processing (MPP) approach to database management and analytic processing can address some of these challenges.
Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011


The Impact of Social Graphing Analysis on the Bottom Line: How Zynga Performs Graph Analysis with the Vertica Analytics Platform
WHITE PAPER: It may be surprising to find that Zynga is performing some of the most advanced analytics anywhere. With a user base of over 250 million monthly active users, this white paper describes why Zynga uses the Vertica Analytics Platform to improve its business and game features.
Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011


Ovum Technology Review of Vertica’s Analytic Database
WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010


New Paradigms for High Performance Analytical Computing
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how combining a high performance batch programming and execution model with a high performance analytical database provides significant business benefits for a number of different types of applications.
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010


How Pink OTC Markets Cuts Reporting Time and Operating Costs with a Market Data Warehouse Built on Vertica and Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.
Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010


Squeezing More Value out of Data Warehouses through the Power of Database Compression
WHITE PAPER: Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.
Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008


Comcast Revolutionizes Network Performance Data Analysis
CASE STUDY: After briefly considering and rejecting an open-source tool, Harvell and his team selected Vertica Analytic Database 2.0, as it is a high-speed, relational SQL database management system.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008