The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later

Summary: Commercialization of the C-Store prototype into Vertica, a modern analytic RDBMS with a relational interface. Demonstrates high-performance web-scale analytics via architectural choices and highlights academia-to-product translation into a successful commercial system. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10416
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.00028132402
Overall Rank: 310 | 97.85%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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734	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.00017455248
736	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00017447617
1,477	Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011770865
1,478	Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011762542
1,729	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.0001073728
1,792	Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey	2017	SIGMOD	0.00010537893
1,807	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010487796
1,814	Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing	2014	VLDB	0.00010458107
2,154	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.4208667e-05
2,249	Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.2034693e-05
2,390	ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout	2015	SIGMOD	8.9084657e-05
2,412	WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing	2014	VLDB	8.8726508e-05
2,473	Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems	2022	SIGMOD	8.7237281e-05
2,642	Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database	2020	SIGMOD	8.3851878e-05
2,691	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	8.2909126e-05
2,862	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	7.9898539e-05
2,998	Major Technical Advancements in Apache Hive	2014	SIGMOD	7.753765e-05
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3,152	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	7.4711766e-05
3,154	The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database	2016	VLDB	7.4686089e-05
3,350	Eon Mode: Bringing the Vertica Columnar Database to the Cloud	2018	SIGMOD	7.1890237e-05
3,386	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	7.1577103e-05
3,416	LeCo: Lightweight Compression via Learning Serial Correlations	2024	SIGMOD	7.1196234e-05
3,488	Optimal Column Layout for Hybrid Workloads	2019	VLDB	7.0479329e-05
3,608	Column Sketches: A Scan Accelerator for Rapid and Robust Predicate Evaluation	2018	SIGMOD	6.924272e-05
3,737	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	6.8033227e-05
3,745	DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.7926132e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7871241e-05
3,788	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	6.7656267e-05
3,922	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	6.6291079e-05
4,161	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	6.3938006e-05
4,242	Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine	2020	VLDB	6.3315241e-05
4,368	Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications	2017	CIDR	6.2491345e-05
4,390	LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.2279149e-05
4,419	Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	6.2022597e-05
4,495	ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone	2024	VLDB	6.1410277e-05
4,530	Big Metadata: When Metadata is Big Data	2021	VLDB	6.1075429e-05
4,624	Wildfire: Concurrent Blazing Data Ingest and Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	6.0411906e-05
4,667	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	6.0116919e-05
4,688	Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing	2020	VLDB	5.9980609e-05
4,767	Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users	2018	SIGMOD	5.9364731e-05
4,799	Practical Private Range Search Revisited	2016	SIGMOD	5.9119553e-05
4,861	OctopusFS: A Distributed File System with Tiered Storage Management	2017	SIGMOD	5.8708916e-05
4,961	Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models	2017	CIDR	5.7984657e-05
5,113	Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?	2018	SIGMOD	5.687445e-05
5,120	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	5.6803959e-05
5,125	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	5.679423e-05
5,186	Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory	2015	VLDB	5.6400929e-05
5,338	Fast In-Memory SQL Analytics on Typed Graphs	2017	VLDB	5.5629772e-05
5,395	Large-scale Predictive Analytics in Vertica: Fast Data Transfer, Distributed Model Creation, and In-database Prediction	2015	SIGMOD	5.5318806e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076197749
59	Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute	1995	VLDB	0.00064501896
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059533166
264	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00029844694
368	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.000254931
913	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00015408131
1,093	Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views	1996	VLDB	0.00014134451
2,444	Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries	2008	VLDB	8.8076551e-05

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