Data Sheet
Vertica Advanced Analytics Platform
Vertica Enterprise Edition
Micro Focus® Vertica is designed for use in data warehouses and other big data workloads where speed,
scalability, simplicity, and openness are crucial to the success of analytics. With Vertica Enterprise Edition
software, you get high-performance data analytics for all of your data to make better business decisions
in real time. Packed with powerful features for harnessing the value from all your data, Vertica Enterprise
Edition manages massive amounts of data quickly and reliably, giving you real-time insight for advanced,
Big Data analytics.
Product Highlights Extensible In-Database Quick View
As part of the Vertica Analytics Platform, you Analytics Framework
• Real-time big data analytics. Gain insights into
can perform queries 50 to 1,000 times faster Achieve open access to in-database processing your data in real time. Consume, analyze, and make
than with traditional databases, at a fraction of through a robust development framework for informed decisions at the speed of business.
the cost and using a fraction of the hardware. procedural, user-defined analytics. In addition to
• Fast time to value. Monetize your data in a matter
Unlike traditional RDBMS databases, which using built-in SQL analytic and aggregate func-
of minutes, not weeks or months. Prevent data blind
are not designed for analytics and today’s com- tions, you can define your own custom functions spots from increasing your risk and uncertainty
plex analytics workloads, the Vertica Analytics by using a software developers’ kit (SDK). The around regulatory compliance.
Platform is built from the ground up to deliver SDK features secure sandboxing, and resulting
• Agile deployment. Get maximum flexibility—deploy
breakneck performance on Exabyte volumes at functions run in parallel for fast performance. Vertica Enterprise Edition on industry-standard
nearly infinite scale. hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
In-Database Analytics Library
Key Features and Benefits Vertica provides a number of machine learning
functions for performing in-database analysis.
Columnar Storage and Execution Out-of-the-box, in-database analytics include
By eliminating costly disk I/O associated with event-series pattern matching, event-series
traditional row-oriented SQL databases, you joins, clustering, linear regression, geospa-
can perform queries 50 to 1,000 times faster.1 tial support, advanced time series, and more.
And you can store 10x–30x more data per You also get open source analytics libraries,
server than traditional databases with patented including thousands of packages from CRAN
columnar compression.2 (Comprehensive R Archive Network).
“Scale-Out” Massively Parallel Native Support for Hadoop,
Processing (MPP) Kafka, and More
Scale your solution as much as you need Vertica Enterprise Edition includes application
by adding an unlimited number of industry- programming interfaces (APIs) for user-defined
standard servers and storage to your analytics aggregates, analytics, and multi-phase trans-
environment. form functions. These dynamically integrate
__________ with Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, and
1 TechValidate reference: [Link]/ MapReduce, so that you can analyze large sets
product-research/hp-vertica/charts/B9F- of structured, semi-structured, and unstruc-
BA0-073 tured data in real time.
2 A Vertica internal study
Data Sheet
Vertica Enterprise Edition
Automatic High Availability
Run non-stop with data replication, failover, and
recovery. Vertica Enterprise Edition is optimized
for performance and is transparent to your in-
tegration and operations teams.
Optimized System and
Performance Management
Management Console displays tuning recom-
mendations from the Workload Analyzer tool,
addressing a wide range of system concerns,
including empty administrator passwords, high
CPU usage, and recommendations for better
data management.
Broad Deployment and Consumption
Models—All Based on the Same Vertica Enterprise Edition Offerings
Vertica Core The Vertica Enterprise Edition has two options. The Express edition consists of the base functional-
Available on-premises, in the Cloud, or on ity and the Premium edition has additional advanced capabilities as shown below.
Hadoop, Vertica offers proven Big Data ana-
lytics that can deliver unmatched speed and Express Premium
scale. Depending on the situation, if you need Enterprise Capabilities (Price per TB) (Price per TB)
extra capacity and have no time to stand up M PP Architecture for high scalability ✔ ✔
on-premises hardware, deploying Vertica in the High Availability provides tolerance for node failures ✔ ✔
Cloud is an attractive option. For organizations Role-Based Security ✔ ✔
that prefer to apply a sophisticated SQL query User Defined Extension (UDx) for filtering, parsing, scalar functions, ✔ ✔
engine to their growing data lakes, Vertica for aggregates, transforms and more
SQL on Apache Hadoop is another popular Standard SQL (ANSI 99) ✔ ✔
Vertica consumption model. Flex Tables—Load semi structured data (JSON, Avro, etc.) into a table ✔ ✔
for querying with pre-built parsers
Out-of-the-Box Productivity Workload Analyzer, DB Designer, Management Console for ease of ✔ ✔
management and optimal query performance
Vertica Enterprise Edition was designed to
Elastic Cluster for seamlessly adding or removing nodes in a cluster ✔ ✔
get your users up and running quickly, requir-
Advanced SQL Analytics (Time Series, SQL Windowing, Gap Filling, ✔
ing fewer resources than traditional solutions. more)* and Text Search
With real-time loading and querying, automated Routable Query (Key Value) Interface to achieve high throughput for ✔
database design, and familiar interfaces, your low latency and high-concurrency queries
users are productive immediately. Fault Groups provides high availability and reduces risk of correlated ✔
failures
Operating on industry-standard hardware and Advanced Analytics with Sentiment, Geospatial, R Extensions, and ✔
with an optimized architecture, Vertica Enter In-database Machine learning
prise Edition can deliver significant savings Advanced Relational OLAP functions (Rollup Aggregate, Grouping ✔
Sets Aggregate, Cube Aggregate, and Pivot)
while providing you with industry-leading ana-
Live Aggregate & Pre-Join Projections to optimize query performance ✔
lytics capabilities and performance. for frequently used queries containing aggregates
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New Technology, Technical Specifications
Not Retrofitted Solutions Supported 64-bit operating systems on x86, x64 architecture:
Designed and developed in the 21st century, operating
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.3
systems
Vertica Enterprise Edition powers some of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 SP3*, 12 SP2
largest organizations and most innovative busi- Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7, 6.8, 7.3 (Red Hat compatible kernel only)
ness models around the world. Debian Linux 7.6, 7.7, 8.5
CentOS6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.3
Real-Time Big Data Analytics Supported file Extensively tested on all supported Linux platforms running ext3 or ext4 file systems.3
systems
Gain insights into your data in real time. Operating System Processor Driver Manager
Consume, analyze, and make informed deci-
ODBC drivers Microsoft Windows x86, x64 Microsoft ODBC MDAC 2.8 iODBC
sions at the speed of business. (32-bit and 64-bit 3.52.6 or later unixODBC 2.3.0 or later
drivers provided)
Windows 7, 8 and 10 all variants
Microsoft Windows Server 2012, DataDirect 5.3 and 6.1 or later
Fast Time to Value 2012 R2, 2016
Monetize your data in a matter of minutes, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6–6.9, x86, x64
weeks or months. Prevent data blind spots from 7.0, 7.3
increasing your risk and uncertainty around SUSE Linux Enterprise 11.0 SP3*, x86, x64
regulatory compliance. 12 SP2
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7, 6.8, 7.3 x86, x64
(Red Hat compatible kernel only)
Agile Deployment
Get maximum flexibility—deploy Vertica Enter Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86, x64
prise Edition on industry-standard hardware,
CentOS 6.6–6.9, 7.0, 7.3 x86, x64
virtual machines, or in the cloud.
Solaris 10 x86, x64,
SPARC
You can get all of these benefits with a lead- AIX 7.1 PowerPC
ing data analytics solution that scales without
H PUX 11i V3 IA64
compromising performance.
Mac OS X 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 x86, x64 Mac OS X Driver Manager (iODBC)
J DCB drivers Supported on all operating environment platforms
Try Vertica Today (JDBC 4.0
Get started today and download Vertica Com compliant)
munity Edition, a free version of Vertica Enter Operating System Processor .NET Requirements
prise Edition. Store up to 1 TB of data and [Link] driver Microsoft Windows x86, x64 Microsoft .NET—Framework 3.5 SP1
deploy Vertica on a three node cluster. Sign up or later
Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2,
for Vertica Community Edition at: [Link]. 2016
com/try Windows 7, 8 and 10 all variants
__________ vsql client Supported on all Vertica Enterprise Edition ODBC driver platforms
Perl Driver
3 While other file systems have been s uccessfully Perl Version Modules ODBC requirements
deployed by some customers, Vertica cannot Perl 5.8 DBI driver See ODBC drivers.
guarantee performance or stability of the product 5.10 version 1.609
on these file systems. In certain support situations, DBD: ODBC
you may need to migrate from these untested file version 1.22
systems to help you troubleshoot or fix an issue.
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Vertica Community Edition does not support Linux
Logical Volume Manager.
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Technical Specifications continued
Python Version Python Driver Modules ODBC Requirements
ODBC drivers 2.4.6 pyodbc 2.1.6 See ODBC drivers.
(32-bit and 64-bit 2.7.3 pyodbc 3.0.6 Vertica Headquarters
drivers provided) 3.3.4 pyodbc 3.0.7 150 Cambridgepark Drive
R Version Cambridge, MA 02140
R 3.0.0 or higher
Learn more at: [Link]
Plug-In Version Operating System PowerCenter Version
Plug-in for 7.x Microsoft Windows 9.x
Informatics
PowerCenter
Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016
Windows 7, 8 and 10 all variants
Other Connectors for Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS, HCatalog and Pig
Connectors Connectors for Informatica and Microsoft BI Suite (available from Vertica)
Connectors for popular data integration tools including IBM, Pentaho, Syncsort and Talend
from vendor
Hadoop Cloudera (CDH) 5.7, 5.8, 5.11
Distributions HortonWorks Data Platform (HDP) 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
MapR 5.1, 5.2
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