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HiVerticaCapstone Project

University of Pittsburgh January 11, 2013

Stephen Walkauskas, Architect, Data Management, Vertica

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Contact infoStephen Walkauskasswalkauskas@vertica.com

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Vertica culture

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What Is Vertica

• SQL Database for Real-time Analytics • Runs on x86 hardware• MPP Columnar Architecture – scales to

PBs!• Reduced footprint via Advanced

Compression• Extensible analytics capabilities• Easy to setup and use• Elastic - grow/shrink as needed• Extensive Ecosystem of analytic tools

Speed

Scale

Simplicity

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Map/Reduce

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-- HQLSELECT a.val1, a.val2, b.val, c.val FROM a JOIN b ON (a.key = b.key)LEFT OUTER JOIN c ON (a.key = c.key)

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HiVertica

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HiVerticaa) Write code to read Hive / HCatalog meta-data and generate DDL to

create corresponding external tables (ETs) in a Vertica DB.

b) Configure ETs with files referenced by the corresponding Hive tables. Vertica ships a connector to source files from hdfs. Using this connector the aforementioned ETs can be used to query data in Hive (assuming data is in a format Vertica can parse).

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HiVerticac) Vertica supports User Defined Parsers (you can write your own csv

parser if you’re so inclined). RCFile is commonly used to store data in Hive. It would be useful to be able to parse that format in a Vertica UDParser.

d) Find that place in Hive where it compiles HQL into M/R jobs and instead rename the HQL to SQL and, leveraging the above features, send the query to Vertica instead. The two systems are not 100%; we can tweak them to shrink the feature gap.

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Thanks!