HP Vertica basics

The cluster-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.Support for standard programming interfaces ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET.The Vertica Analytic Database runs on cluster of Linux-based commodity servers. It is also available as a hosted DBMS provisioned by and running on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The product integrates with Hadoop