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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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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