The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later
Summary: Describes Vertica, a commercial evolution of C-Store: a distributed, columnar RDBMS combining a classical relational interface, full ACID transactions, and petabyte-scale analytic performance. Distills architectural deviations and deployment lessons from seven years of commercialization. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Andrew Lamb (Vertica)
- 2. Matt Fuller (Vertica)
- 3. Ramakrishna Varadarajan (Vertica)
- 4. Nga Tran (Vertica)
- 5. Ben Vandiver (Vertica)
- 6. Lyric Doshi (Vertica)
- 7. Chuck Bear (Vertica)
BibTeX Citation
@article{lamb_vldb12,
title = {{The Vertica Analytic Database: C-Store 7 Years Later}},
author = {Lamb, Andrew and Fuller, Matt and Varadarajan, Ramakrishna and Tran, Nga and Vandiver, Ben and Doshi, Lyric and Bear, Chuck},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '12},
volume = {5},
number = {12},
pages = {1790--1801},
doi = {10.14778/2367502.2367510},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367510},
year = {2012}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 | 0.00069513174 |
| 14 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.0006312782 |
| 32 | Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00050111008 |
| 75 | Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00037277061 |
| 227 | Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00023958508 |
| 258 | Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00023131981 |
| 872 | Tenzing: A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework | 2011 | VLDB | 0.00013486409 |
| 1,091 | Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00012226764 |
| 2,150 | Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries | 2008 | VLDB | 9.081101e-05 |
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