1. Capstone Projects
Aliaksei Sandryhaila
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2. Who we are HP Vertica A Hewlett-Packard company
Leading provider of Big Data management and analytics solutions
Core product: Vertica database
Engineered from ground-up for Big Data
Handles petabytes of data
Cutting-edge technology
“Many hundreds” of customers, including Facebook, Apple, Zynga, Paypal, Mozilla, telcos (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint), financial (Citibank, BNY Mellon), NASCAR

3. Big Data Analytics in the Cloud
Projects
Optimized cloud storage
Use Vertica SDK to implement a FS layer in cloud (Amazon S3, Shift, etc.)
Fast data load
Use Vertica SDK to load data from the cloud into Vertica
Cost/benefit performance analysis (“get the biggest bang for the buck”)
Determine trade-offs between cloud and local storage
Database benchmarking
Quantitatively compare different DBMSs on a variety of storage layers
Cloud-on-the-Cloud
Create a “sandbox” to run DBMS and Hadoop in the cloud

4. Scalable Storage Hierarchy for Big Data
Projects
Flashier Vertica
Leverage benefits of SSD for DBMS
In-memory DBMS evaluation
Compare Vertica with in-memory DBMS (Spark, MemSQL)

5. Project logistics Prerequisites C++ or Java (C++ preferred)
Some systems knowledge (FS, DBMS, cloud, etc.)
Some computer architecture knowledge
Independent/group projects
Depends on the size of your group
Code writing: individually or in groups (e.g. pair programming)
Learning new technologies: better together

6. More info Email: Stephen Walkauskas: swalkauskas@vertica.com
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