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: 0.00026390332
Overall Rank: 189 | 98.69%
DOI: -

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472	AnalyticDB-V: A Hybrid Analytical Engine Towards Query Fusion for Structured and Unstructured Data	2020	VLDB	0.0001798859
657	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.00015380467
915	Learning Multi-dimensional Indexes	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013295102
1,041	Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping	2014	SIGMOD	0.00012565893
1,353	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011166774
1,354	Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011165852
1,545	Cloud-Native Database Systems at Alibaba: Opportunities and Challenges	2019	VLDB	0.00010468361
1,577	Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing	2014	VLDB	0.00010368033
1,692	Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010090713
1,761	ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout	2015	SIGMOD	9.896048e-05
1,856	Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems	2022	SIGMOD	9.699164e-05
1,958	Greenplum: A Hybrid Database for Transactional and Analytical Workloads	2021	SIGMOD	9.4923188e-05
2,118	DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation	2019	VLDB	9.2000813e-05
2,232	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	8.9738256e-05
2,319	Vertica-ML: Distributed Machine Learning in Vertica Database	2020	SIGMOD	8.8391757e-05
2,530	AnalyticDB: Real-time OLAP Database System at Alibaba Cloud	2019	VLDB	8.5295823e-05
2,558	The MemSQL Query Optimizer: A modern optimizer for real-time analytics in a distributed database	2016	VLDB	8.4829467e-05
2,585	WideTable: An Accelerator for Analytical Data Processing	2014	VLDB	8.4540632e-05
2,674	Major Technical Advancements in Apache Hive	2014	SIGMOD	8.3291726e-05
2,721	Lethe: A Tunable Delete-Aware LSM Engine	2020	SIGMOD	8.2688149e-05
2,875	Optimal Column Layout for Hybrid Workloads	2019	VLDB	8.0765364e-05
2,916	Column Sketches: A Scan Accelerator for Rapid and Robust Predicate Evaluation	2018	SIGMOD	8.0325296e-05
2,973	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	7.9568456e-05
3,079	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	7.847438e-05
3,102	Pushing Data-Induced Predicates Through Joins in Big-Data Clusters	2020	VLDB	7.8221928e-05
3,149	DeepSqueeze: Deep Semantic Compression for Tabular Data	2020	SIGMOD	7.7622766e-05
3,203	Choosing A Cloud DBMS: Architectures and Tradeoffs	2019	VLDB	7.7167013e-05
3,214	Eon Mode: Bringing the Vertica Columnar Database to the Cloud	2018	SIGMOD	7.7032086e-05
3,508	Rethinking Data-Intensive Science Using Scalable Analytics Systems	2015	SIGMOD	7.4266293e-05
3,553	Access Path Selection in Main-Memory Optimized Data Systems: Should I Scan or Should I Probe?	2017	SIGMOD	7.3775219e-05
3,704	Db2 Event Store: A Purpose-Built IoT Database Engine	2020	VLDB	7.2525511e-05
3,759	ClickHouse - Lightning Fast Analytics for Everyone	2024	VLDB	7.2006246e-05
3,809	FlexPushdownDB: Hybrid Pushdown and Caching in a Cloud DBMS	2021	VLDB	7.1618407e-05
3,819	Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications	2017	CIDR	7.1549982e-05
3,968	Don't Hold My Data Hostage - A Case For Client Protocol Redesign	2017	VLDB	7.0567941e-05
4,060	Big Metadata: When Metadata is Big Data	2021	VLDB	6.9955896e-05
4,078	Alibaba Hologres: A Cloud-Native Service for Hybrid Serving/Analytical Processing	2020	VLDB	6.9794098e-05
4,164	Wildfire: Concurrent Blazing Data Ingest and Analytics	2016	SIGMOD	6.9228437e-05
4,179	Pinot: Realtime OLAP for 530 Million Users	2018	SIGMOD	6.9132756e-05
4,377	LeCo: Lightweight Compression via Learning Serial Correlations	2024	SIGMOD	6.8009976e-05
4,537	The Art of Balance: A RateupDBTM Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product	2021	VLDB	6.7115627e-05
4,566	Query Optimization in Oracle 12c Database In-Memory	2015	VLDB	6.6954792e-05
4,572	Practical Private Range Search Revisited	2016	SIGMOD	6.693043e-05
4,578	LogStore: A Cloud-Native and Multi-Tenant Log Database	2021	SIGMOD	6.6916775e-05
4,590	Columnstore and B+ tree – Are Hybrid Physical Designs Important?	2018	SIGMOD	6.686154e-05
4,832	Fast In-Memory SQL Analytics on Typed Graphs	2017	VLDB	6.5543344e-05
4,920	Releasing Cloud Databases from the Chains of Performance Prediction Models	2017	CIDR	6.5094324e-05
4,945	Fast Database Restarts at Facebook	2014	SIGMOD	6.4976733e-05
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5,061	A Padded Encoding Scheme to Accelerate Scans by Leveraging Skew	2015	SIGMOD	6.4467863e-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
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00070779065
14	MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution	2005	CIDR	0.00063341086
33	Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework	2009	VLDB	0.00050623146
76	Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute	1995	VLDB	0.00037322071
239	Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing	1998	VLDB	0.00023999126
251	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00023504842
810	Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework	2011	VLDB	0.00013936806
1,075	Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views	1996	VLDB	0.00012406829
2,116	Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries	2008	VLDB	9.2038228e-05

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