Vertica Analytic Database 3.0 Debuts at TDWI: Data Warehousing Workhorse for
the Modern Data Center
Major release of column-oriented, MPP DBMS features dozens of enhancements
driven by fastest growing customer base in analytic data management
CHICAGO, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Vertica announced a major release of the
Vertica Analytic Database at the TDWI Conference with new performance,
analytic and security features designed to make it the analytic data
management workhorse of modern data centers.
Vertica Analytic Database 3.0 includes dozens of new features that make it the
best available data warehousing platform for a wide variety of industries and
applications. These features are derived from scores of Vertica users, who
compose one of the fastest growing customer bases in the analytic database and
appliance market, with nearly 100 installations in just two years. Vertica 3.0
has also been enhanced to support the needs of modern data centers that are
adopting virtualization and cloud computing to become more responsive to
users, more cost-efficient and greener.
Corporate data centers are undergoing enormous change, incorporating new
cost-saving technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing and MPP
architectures. Unlike special-purpose hardware-based appliances like Netezza,
Vertica 3.0, with its column-oriented, MPP architecture was designed
specifically to facilitate this evolution and provide a faster and more
economic way to deploy large-scale, high-performance analytic data marts.
These enhancements have been driven by the many customer deployments of
Vertica in telecommunications, finance, marketing, software as a service
(SaaS), healthcare and other markets where traditional databases can no longer
get the job done. Vertica 3.0 builds on the success of these deployments,
making it a well-rounded technology that is more responsive to the
ever-changing analytic needs of businesses.
"We chose to standardize on the Vertica Analytic Database 3.0 to maintain and
grow our competitive advantage," said Larry Lancaster, CTO of Glassbeam, the
first company to provide SaaS for product analytics. "Vertica 3.0 is extremely
fast, reliable and economical, helping us deliver the best possible service to
our customers."
Some new key features in Vertica 3.0 include additional analytic capabilities,
such as support for SQL-99 analytic functions and new data types. SQL
analytics enable users to create more powerful queries, with even more ease
and efficiency. Support for new data types makes Vertica well suited for a
wider range of industries and applications, such as adding IP address storage
which is critical for telecommunications and companies performing web
click-stream analysis.
With this latest version, Vertica is also the first analytic database to
automatically analyze and optimize its performance. A new function
continuously monitors its workload to determine the best way for the database
engine to access the data. The result is a highly adaptive analytic database
that automatically responds to changing user demands.
The company also improved the security features of Vertica 3.0 with integrated
authentication and SSL client security encryption. The new release adds
support for Kerberos v5, LDAP and Active Directory network security services
to authenticate users' access at runtime. SSL encryption secures client/server
exchanges over network channels that have no inherent security.
The new version also loads data faster. It offers record-setting load
performance of over 5 terabytes per hour. And other new load improvements,
including the ability to operate directly on compressed files, groups of files
using a wildcard and files on remote notes.
"Release 3.0 of Vertica's high-performance analytic database will provide
communication service providers (CSPs) using our industry-leading Revenue
Maximization solutions, key components of a Revenue Operations Center (ROC),
with an efficient operations data warehousing system enabling real-time
analytics and intelligence leading to greater efficiencies and enhanced
business value," said Colin Hales, vice president - Global Alliances, Subex
Ltd.
Vertica 3.0 relies on a unique columnar, MPP architecture and pioneering data
compression to reduce storage requirements by as much as 90 percent,
dramatically cutting hardware overhead and energy consumption so companies can
analyze larger amounts of data at a fraction of the cost. It can operate
directly on that compressed data, delivering query results 50 to 200 times
faster than other databases.
Vertica 3.0 is available starting this month and can be run on Linux servers,
any VMware ESX or VMware Server-supported hardware, or on-demand in the Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Click here for a complete list of new
features and enhancements of Vertica Analytic Database 3.0.
About Vertica
Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database
management systems that run on industry-standard hardware. Co-founded by
database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed
column-oriented analytic database technology with an MPP architecture that
lets companies of any size store and query very large databases orders of
magnitude faster and more affordably than other solutions. The Vertica
Analytic Database is available as software only, as a hardware based
appliance, as a virtual appliance on VMware or online as a cloud computing
solution. The technology's unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease
of use helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast,
Level(3) Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in
real time. Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.
SOURCE Vertica Systems
Ed Marshall of Beaupre & Co. Public Relations for Vertica Systems,
+1-603-559-5816, emarshall@beaupre.com
