Vertica

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Vertica Systems, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	2005
Headquarters	Andover, MA
Industry	Enterprise Software & Database Management & Data Warehousing
Website	www.vertica.com

Vertica Systems (www.vertica.com) has developed a new grid-enabled, column-oriented DBMS that runs on Linux. The Vertica Database provides extremely fast ad hoc query performance, even for large databases (very many terabytes), making it well suited for data warehousing, data marts, clickstream analysis, fraud detection, call detail analysis, consumer customer analytics, business intelligence and other query-intensive applications. Vertica’s product was originally inspired by the C-Store column-oriented database technology developed as an open source project at MIT and other universities.

As of 2007 (January), the database is in beta development stage, and the official web site gives no information on the product except for those who enroll in an early tester program.

A use case detailed in One Size Fits All? Part 2: Benchmarking Results paper (sect. 3.1) shows a performance improvement of hundreds of times with Vertica in a specific application due to the use of the vertical DBMS approach.

Vertica was founded in 2005 by database research and technology pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker; and Andrew Palmer, a business executive with experience in both software and biotechnology.