OMG I'm that guy -- 3 straight Vertica roles with $B annual revenue.
I did learn a lot from watching MDS people try to beat it (in the end I'm also looking for what should come next), but mostly it was confirming the article and RDD. What they didn't know about data warehousing they also didn't know about performance or price-performance or selecting tools or managing projects or vendors, so costs exploded.
These folks were hilarious because they kept insisting that Vertica is not "modern", while it beat the pants off them with basic columnstore stuff.
I did learn a lot from watching MDS people try to beat it (in the end I'm also looking for what should come next), but mostly it was confirming the article and RDD. What they didn't know about data warehousing they also didn't know about performance or price-performance or selecting tools or managing projects or vendors, so costs exploded.
These folks were hilarious because they kept insisting that Vertica is not "modern", while it beat the pants off them with basic columnstore stuff.