A new startup leads by industry bigwigs called Vertica has developed a new grid-enabled, column-oriented relational
database management system (RDBMS) that runs on industry-standard,
Linux-based hardware. According to their site “The Vertica Database® provides extremely fast ad
hoc SQL query performance, even for very large databases, making it
well suited for:
- Data warehousing
- Data marts
- Clickstream analysis
- Fraud detection
- Call detail analysis
- Consumer customer analytics
- Business intelligence
- Other query-intensive applications
The Vertica Database is still in beta testing.” There are a lot of big bets being placed on this venture and should be very interesting.
