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| Industry | Database management & Data warehousing |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Andrew Palmer and Michael Stonebraker |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, MA, United States |
Key people | Mark Barrenechea (CEO and CTO) |
| Products | Vertica Analytics Database, Vertica SQL on Data Lake |
| Parent | OpenText |
| Website | www |
Vertica is an analytic database management software company.[1][2] Vertica was founded in 2005 by the database researcher Michael Stonebraker with Andrew Palmer as the founding CEO. Ralph Breslauer and Christopher P. Lynch served as CEOs later on.
Lynch joined as Chairman and CEO in 2010 and was responsible for Vertica's acquisition by Hewlett Packard in March 2011.[3][4] The acquisition expanded the HP Software portfolio for enterprise companies and the public sector group.[5] As part of the merger of Micro Focus and the Software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vertica joined Micro Focus in September 2017.[6] As part of OpenText acquisition of Micro Focus, Vertica joined OpenText in January 2023.
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- ^ HP News Release: "HP to Acquire Vertica: Customers Can Analyze Massive Amounts of Big Data at Speed and Scale" Feb. 2011
- ^ HP News Release: "HP Completes Acquisition of Vertica Systems, Inc." March 22, 2011.
- ^ ComputerWorld.com: "Update: HP to buy Vertica for analytics." Kanaracus. Feb. 2011.
- ^ SiliconAngle: "Vertica survives software industry turmoil to emerge as key cloud and big data player" Albertson.