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Why HPE Vertica 8 is the best fit for businesses to create an analytics-driven enterprise
Why HPE Vertica 8 is the best fit for businesses to create an analytics-driven enterprise

Why HPE Vertica 8 is the best fit for businesses to create an analytics-driven enterprise

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Key takeaways

  • HPE Vertica is a leading player in the big data analytics sector, known for its MPP architecture.
  • The platform excels in handling large-scale analytical tasks with high concurrency and advanced compression.
  • Major companies like Facebook and ICICI Bank utilise HPE Vertica for critical business analytics.
  • HPE Vertica supports cloud integration and in-database machine learning, enhancing overall performance.
  • The database is designed for sophisticated analysis, offering speed and scalability for diverse data environments.
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HPE Vertica holds an enviable position in the big data world, an early entrant with one of the largest installed user bases and a leader in MPP architecture, it has quickly risen to the top tier of EDW technology. The column-oriented, highly scalable analytical database was built to address the most demanding big data analytics initiatives. There are plenty of proof points of HPE Vertica analytics capabilities. One of the most advanced SQL databases, HPE Vertica supports high degree of concurrency and parallelism, advanced compression capabilities, cloud integration and In-Database machine learning resulting in enhanced performance at scale. Businesses today, such as social media giant Facebook, ICICI Bank, Aircel and MTS, among other leading heavyweights, rely heavily on HPE Vertica 8 to answer some of the most business-critical questions. The platform gives the businesses the capabilities to conduct sophisticated analysis at “industry-leading” scale and speed, regardless of where their data lives. The database management market is rife with competition and HPE has a definitive lead in big data platform vendor list dominated by Oracle, IBM and Teradata. To add to that, HPE has a clutch of big name customers [Cardlytics, Chase, AT&T, WebMD] in its corner to stave off competition from big data vendors and cloud-based analytics service providers AWS, Azure and Google Compute Engine. With flexible deployments, HPE has targeted the right customers who don’t want to control their infrastructure and not ship all the data into the cloud. The strategy seems to have paid off well. Vertica is a mature solution, designed for complex, query-intensive applications and has a definitive edge over Hadoop-SQL combinations. With user-friendly features being the name of the game, HPE Vertica is definitely going where its customers are and solving performance challenges that business environments face today. For years, it was all about having more and more data but gradually, there are more concurrent users and competing, simultaneous workloads going on.

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