The grid-based, column-oriented, Vertica Analytics Platform is designed to manage large, fast-growing volumes of data and provide very fast query performance when used for data warehouses and other query-intensive applications. The product claims to drastically improve query performance over traditional relational database systems, provide high-availability, and petabyte scalability on commodity enterprise servers. Its design features include: Column-oriented storage organization, … Continue reading HP Vertica – an analytic database management software – Installation