Vertica Query Performance Tuning - An introduction

Hey there, I guess you have been having a lot fun with your Vertica databases. I thought I’d share some of the things that I did to improve my query performance. Tables and Projections in Vertica In Vertica even though we access data through tables everything is stored in projections which are stored among nodes in various ways depending on the K Safety and the Segmentation options that we choose when creating the table. We can make modifications to these projections manually or run the Database Designer to generate projections for us. Sometimes to get the best performance we have to write query specific projections. ...

September 12, 2013 · 5 min · 915 words