BILLERICA, Massachusetts, January 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Vertica Systems was named to Gartner's Data Warehouse Database Management
Systems Magic Quadrant 2008.(1)

The high-performance column-oriented Vertica Analytic Database is the
only analytic database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business
intelligence workloads. Customers using the Vertica Analytic Database have
the freedom to analyze more data in more ways, faster, so they can
out-innovate the competition. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has answered
queries against terabytes of data 50 to 200 times faster than competing
databases and specialized analytic hardware.

In the July 2008 "Hype Cycle for Data Management, 2008" report that
covered Column Store Database Management Systems, Gartner Vice President and
Analyst Donald Feinberg indicated: "Column-store DBMSs should be considered
as primary candidates for analytic data marts due to I/O performance gained
from compression and retrieval of fewer columns (typical of analytic
applications). In the two specific areas where column-store DBMS excel
(analytics and archiving solutions), there can be a large cost savings and,
with analytic applications, a large performance gain."

Being named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant is the latest achievement among
several other 2008 distinctions for Vertica, including the company being
named one of the top 100 private technology companies in the Red Herring's
annual 100 North America Award, and a Computerworld Horizon Award for
cutting-edge technologies. Since its launch last year, the Vertica Analytic
Database has enabled leading companies like Comcast, JP Morgan Chase and
Mozilla to integrate and analyze large volumes of information in data
warehouse and business intelligence systems.

"Industry analysts have called Vertica a 'revolution' in the database
world, citing the huge performance advantages of grid-based, column-oriented
databases for handling terabyte-scale analytic workloads," said Vertica CEO
Ralph Breslauer. "In my opinion, being named to Gartner's Magic Quadrant
builds on this string of analyst validation. We're proud that a company as
young as ours can make such an immediate impact on the database market."

For more information about the Magic Quadrant, current Gartner clients
may go to http://www.gartner.com. Source: Data Warehouse Database Management
Systems Magic Quadrant 2008.

1.  Gartner, Inc., Donald Feinberg, Mark A. Beyer, Data Warehouse 
        Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant 2008

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 23, 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and
is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation
of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's
analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is
not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties,
express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Vertica

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic
database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.
Co-founded by database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker, Vertica has developed
column-oriented analytic database technology that lets companies of any size
store and query very large databases orders of magnitude faster and more
affordably than other solutions. The Vertica Analytic Database is available
as software only, as an appliance or online as a cloud computing solution.
The technology's unmatched speed, scalability, flexibility and ease of use
helps customers like JP Morgan Chase, Verizon, Mozilla, Comcast, Level 3
Communications and Vonage capitalize on business opportunities in real time.
Vertica is headquartered in Billerica, Mass. For more information, visit the
company's Web site at http://www.vertica.com.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted December 23, 2008 by Gartner, 
Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical
representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts
Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that
marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise
technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is
not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties,
express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.