The Vertica Database: Technical Overview White Paper
Vertica is a general-purpose relational database system designed to provide extremely good performance on read-intensive query workloads.

The Vertica Database: Rethinking Data Warehouse Architecture
In today's market, leveraging information in data warehouses is increasingly critical to business success. At the same time, enterprises face the challenge to deliver higher business intelligence value at lower cost.

Aligning Business Intelligence with Business Strategy
This paper examines how mission mapped architecture can help.

Netezza Performance Server® Data Warehouse Appliance: An Architectural Comparison
This Netezza white paper compares the architecture of the Netezza Performance Server (NPS®) appliances to other data warehouse technologies used today.

Data-Centric Computing with the Netezza Architecture – Prepared by Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories, operated by Lockheed Martin’s Sandia Corporation, explores the potential of data warehouse appliances within scientific applications.

Knowing Sooner Rather Than Later: Cost Analysis of Low-Latency Data in Enterprise Data Warehousing
by Jack Garzella, Richard Hackathorn
The study explores five typical architectures for acquiring real-time data from transaction systems and estimates the cost factors for each.

Sybase IQ An evaluation by Bloor Research
by Philip Howard
Column-based databases effectively provide self-tuning capabilities.

A New Perspective on Data Warehouse Architectures
by Evan Levy
The emergence of important new appliance technologies promises new efficiencies and economies of scale that couldn’t be envisioned five years ago when Unix servers were all the rage.