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: 10417
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 0.0002815547
Overall Rank: 310 | 97.85%
DOI: -

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730	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.00017443615
731	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.0001743996
1,464	Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001184772
1,473	Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011786148
1,721	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010741822
1,786	Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey	2017	SIGMOD	0.00010543881
1,801	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010485628
1,838	Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing	2014	VLDB	0.00010353323
2,158	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.4117885e-05
2,247	Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	9.201975e-05
2,390	ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout	2015	SIGMOD	8.9006978e-05
2,409	WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing	2014	VLDB	8.867144e-05
2,472	Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems	2022	SIGMOD	8.7156826e-05
2,660	Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database	2020	SIGMOD	8.3614044e-05
2,693	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	8.2845883e-05
2,821	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	8.0639288e-05
2,998	Major Technical Advancements in Apache Hive	2014	SIGMOD	7.7477264e-05
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3,150	The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database	2016	VLDB	7.4765759e-05
3,153	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	7.4706916e-05
3,353	Eon Mode: Bringing the Vertica Columnar Database to the Cloud	2018	SIGMOD	7.1825176e-05
3,363	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	7.1680649e-05
3,419	LeCo: Lightweight Compression via Learning Serial Correlations	2024	SIGMOD	7.1127752e-05
3,482	Optimal Column Layout for Hybrid Workloads	2019	VLDB	7.0514808e-05
3,611	Column Sketches: A Scan Accelerator for Rapid and Robust Predicate Evaluation	2018	SIGMOD	6.9178844e-05
3,731	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	6.8074069e-05
3,741	DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data	2020	SIGMOD	6.7952067e-05
3,753	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	6.7850001e-05
3,789	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	6.7614151e-05
3,923	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	6.6232068e-05
4,160	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	6.3886736e-05
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4,327	Big Metadata: When Metadata is Big Data	2021	VLDB	6.2765351e-05
4,364	Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications	2017	CIDR	6.2454708e-05
4,387	LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.2219283e-05
4,416	Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	6.1963721e-05
4,498	ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone	2024	VLDB	6.1351257e-05
4,619	Wildfire: Concurrent Blazing Data Ingest and Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	6.0376316e-05
4,666	Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing	2020	VLDB	6.005349e-05
4,672	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	6.001444e-05
4,766	Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users	2018	SIGMOD	5.933206e-05
4,775	Practical Private Range Search Revisited	2016	SIGMOD	5.9275924e-05
4,862	OctopusFS: A Distributed File System with Tiered Storage Management	2017	SIGMOD	5.8659921e-05
4,966	Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models	2017	CIDR	5.7949047e-05
5,114	Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?	2018	SIGMOD	5.6813929e-05
5,121	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	5.675304e-05
5,129	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	5.6724875e-05
5,184	Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory	2015	VLDB	5.6360141e-05
5,334	Fast In-Memory SQL Analytics on Typed Graphs	2017	VLDB	5.5625443e-05
5,400	Large-scale Predictive Analytics in Vertica: Fast Data Transfer, Distributed Model Creation, and In-database Prediction	2015	SIGMOD	5.5262667e-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
20	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086163998
35	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00076209479
60	Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute	1995	VLDB	0.00064450997
70	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00059744625
267	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00029818774
367	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.00025518228
909	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.0001540191
1,090	Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views	1996	VLDB	0.00014133281
2,442	Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries	2008	VLDB	8.8067249e-05

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