HP Vertica

Sreenivas Kalahasti

19-July-2016

Big Data Analytics

Agenda

What is Vertica
Release and Versions
Vertica VS the World
Vertica Overview
How does it work
How To Use Vertica( The right
way )
Where It Falls Short?
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What is Vertica
True Columnar, MPP,
Analytic database
DBMS like other
DBMS( Oracle, Teradata,
MySQL)

Most Latest Version is HP

Vertica called 7.2 launched in
June 2016
Supports Standard SQL ( ANSI
SQL 99 ) called VSQL like other
Databases

Specifically made for

storing Structured and semistructured data
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HP Vertica VS the World

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Features of Vertica
Column Oriented Storage
Organization
Shared Nothing
Architecture
( Distributed )
High Performance
High Availability
Parallel Data Transfer

Auto Recover Process

Automatic DB Design
Standard SQL Interface
Data Compression
Easy Maintenance

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Use cases

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Vertica Database Architecture

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How Does Vertica work

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WOS Vs ROS

WOS (Write Optimized Store) :

ROS (Read Optimized Store) :

Mainly used to store INSERT,

UPDATE, DELETE and COPY
Actions.
WOS is arranged by Projection
,stores data without
compression or indexing.
Rows are stored in the same
sorting order which they are
inserted.

Highly Optimized and Read Oriented.

Arranged by Projection and stores
data with compression and indexing.
Use COPY...DIRECT and INSERT
(with /*direct*/ hint) to Load data
directly into ROS.

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Projections in Vertica

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Types Of Projections
Projection Types :
- Super Projection => Default
- Query Specific Projection => Contain only the specific columns
- Pre Join Projection => subset of query specific projections
- Buddy Projection => Copies of projections stored on an adjacent
node.

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Delete / Update in Vertica

Deleted rows are only marked as deleted in Vertica

and will be stored in the Delete Vector on the disk.
To purge the Deleted rows we need to merge the ROS
,the Delete vector.

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Best Practices in Vertica

Trickle Load => Load data incrementally with new and changed data.

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Best Practices in Vertica

Moveout => Move data from memory (WOS) into a new ROS
container( Disk).

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Best Practices in Vertica

Mergeout=> Use mergeout process to consolidate ROS containers and
purging deleted records.

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Where Vertica Falls Short

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HP Vertica
References
HP Vertica Essentials by Rishabh
Agrawal
HP Vertica Documentation

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THANK
TIME FOR DISCUSSION & QUESTIONS
YOU

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