I’ve recently been taking a look at Vertica, a relatively new player in the analytics DBMS world (of which there are now several contenders including some known names like Netezza and Greenplum).  Vertica’s flagship product is a MPP database solution that apparently has some huge scalability potential (we keep reading about handfuls of nodes for now, but the research suggests it can scale much further and is rather straightforward to do so).

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