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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6,154	PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba	2023	SIGMOD	5.1795738e-05
6,268	MATE: Multi-Attribute Table Extraction	2022	VLDB	5.1288179e-05
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6,332	Apache Arrow DataFusion: A Fast, Embeddable, Modular Analytic Query Engine	2024	SIGMOD	5.1021765e-05
6,597	Heracles: An Efficient Storage Model and Data Flushing for Performance Monitoring Timeseries	2021	VLDB	4.9940332e-05
6,683	Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale	2024	VLDB	4.9593505e-05
7,035	Building the Enterprise Fabric for Big Data with Vertica and Spark Integration	2016	SIGMOD	4.8503423e-05
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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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