Vertica Storage Location for HDFS

Do you find yourself running low on disk space on your Vertica database? You could delete older data, but that sacrifices your ability to perform historical queries. You could add new nodes to your cluster or add storage to your existing nodes. However, these options require additional expense.

The Vertica Storage Locations for HDFS feature introduced in Vertica Version 7.1 offers you a new solution: storing data on an Apache Hadoop cluster. You can use this feature to store data in a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) while still being able to query it through Vertica.

Watch this video for an overview of the Vertica Storage Locations for HDFS feature and an example of how you can use it to free storage space on your Vertica cluster.

For more information about this feature, see the Vertica Storage Location for HDFS section of the documentation.