Vertica Virtualizes Via VMware
(In other news, the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep is sick … but I digress.)
It seems that every analytic DBMS vendor feels compelled to issue at least one press release the week of winter TDWI. Vertica’s grand revelation this year is that you can use Vertica with VMware.* Of course, VMware working the way it does, you in fact have always been able to use Vertica with VMware. But now things are slightly improved, because Vertica has built install packages you can download, and has been working out recommended configuration settings as well.
So who should care? Well, if you’re a VMware ESX shop but not a Linux shop, then Vertica-on-Linux-on-ESX might look more manageable to you than regular Vertica-on-Linux. Ditto if you love some other OS so much that you’d rather run, say, Linux-on-VMware-on-Solaris rather than just Linux, or if you’re an ISV who believes your customers have that kind of preference.
Vertica further says that some management tasks — e.g., adding new nodes or just new databases — may be easier on VMware from Day 1, at least for shops that already have VMware operations. This point should be particularly interesting any SaaS providers or data mart outsourcers that create a separate data mart for each customer.
Even so, I don’t think virtualization has the same kinds of fundamental advantages for terabyte-scale data warehousing that it does for smaller transaction processing database applications.
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[…] Vertica is virtualizing via VMware, and has suggested a few operational benefits to doing so that might or might not offset VMware’s computational overhead. But on the whole,it seems virtualization’s major benefits don’t apply to the large-database MPP data warehousing. […]
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