Abstract

Please join us as we talk about query optimization in the Vertica Analytic Database. We will go over some unique challenges in query optimization in column-store databases that led to our writing the optimizer from scratch. We will also cover some software engineering design decisions that motivated Vertica’s modular, distributed query optimizer.

About the Speakers

Matt Fuller has been a developer at Vertica (now an HP company) for more than 4 years, and currently leads the Optimizer team. Lakshmikant (Pachu) Shrinivas has been a developer at Vertica for more than 3 years, and was deeply involved in the query optimizer. He currently leads the Analytics team.