HP Vertica 8 "Frontloader" Released
The new HP Vertica 8 "Frontloader" was Released and it comes with a lot of great new features. We will try to go over the most important features of this new Vertica release.
- Vertica is available now on Microsoft Azure cloud platform.(More info on this at this link).
- Amazon AWS documentation of HP Vertica running on AWS cloud is now part of the official HP Vertica documentation(See more here).
- Advanced Analytics Package - Machine Learning Package now Included in Server Install.(See more here).
- Apache Kafka integration that provides a high-performance loading mechanism for streaming data from a third party message bus into your Vertica database.(See more here).
- Python SDK was added. This SDK allows you to use Vertica Python APIs to add additional functionality to your Vertica cluster.(See more here).
- Management Console comes now with a Kafka and AWS S3 loading jobs monitor features; extended monitoring is enable over longer periods of time; Table usage monitor(if any projection has been used or unused).
- Apache Spark integration. This new feature enables us to transfer data between Vertica and Apache Spark.
- User Client Connections can be limited now as per each user and they are enforced cluster-wide.
