HP Vertica is SQL database analytics platform used to efficiently manage and analyze large and rapidly accumulating amounts of structured and semi-structured data.
Accelerates Vertica Architecture and SQL training course teaches students the Vertica Architecture and SQL skills needed to use this powerful big data platform to its full potential.
The Building Blocks of Vertica: Learn about the physical architecure of a Vertica cluster, and the six foundation elements of Vertica that make it a unique and powerful platform. Installation and Setup:
- Installing Vertica and the Management Console: Learn how to unpack and install the Vertica Analytics platform and the Management Console tool.
- Creating a Database: Learn how to create a new database using both the admintools interface and the Management Console tool, and how to create a schema into a database using vsql.
- Loading Data: Learn how Vertica’s Hybrid Storage Architecture is used to speed the loading of data; how to monitor a data load in progress; and how to troubleshoot data loading issues. Vertica Storage Architecture.
- Introduction to Projections: Receive an overview of the Vertica storage architecture and how to create the key elements within that architecture to contain data.
- Query Execution: Learn how queries are managed by Vertica’s distributed database, using the least resource-intensive method to execute them quickly and efficiently. Vertica Analytics Functions .
- Introduction to Analytics: Learn how to structure an analytic query, and become acquainted with the advantages of analytic queries; understand the order in which analytic functions process database information.
- Event-Based Analytics: Event-based analytics functions are Vertica-proprietary extensions beyond the ANSI-99 supported analytics tools. Learn about the features, benefits, and usage of Vertica’s event-based analytics functions to evaluate data.
- Timeseries Analytics: When data with a timestamp is gathered, it often has gaps between events. Vertica provides analytic tools that allow you to interpolate values of missing data. Learn how Vertica interpolates the intervals and values for missing time series data. Vertica Workload Management .
- The Vertica Resource Manager: In order to most efficient process queries, Vertica assigns each query to a built-in resource pool. Learn about how query workloads are managed used the built-in pools, and the configuration parameters for each of these pools.
- User-Defined Resource Pools: Learn how to create a new resource pool, and how to assign the queries from specific users to a particular pool. We recommend you first take the Vertica Resource Manager web-based module.
