Where to Find the Vertica Documentation

World Wide Web

You can read and/or download the Vertica documentation for the current release of Vertica® Analytic Database from the Vertica Systems, Inc. Web site's Product Documentation Page. You need a V-Zone login to access the documentation.

The documentation on the Vertica Systems, Inc. Web site is updated each time a new release is issued. If you are using an older version, refer to the documentation on your database server or client systems.

Database Server Systems

The Vertica® Analytic Database Documentation Set is automatically installed in the /opt/vertica/doc/ directory on all cluster hosts. If you have a browser and/or the Adobe Reader installed on a cluster host, you can access the documentation directly. 

Database Client Systems

Vertica Systems, Inc. recommends that you copy the Vertica documentation from the database server (any cluster host) to a client system on which you can use a browser and/or the Adobe Reader.

To create a copy of the Vertica documentation on a client system, do one of the following:

• Download the documentation package (.tar.gz or .zip) from the Vertica Systems, Inc. Web site and extract the files to a directory on the client system, using the original pathnames
• Copy the documentation directories from a database server system to a convenient location in your client system. All cross-references within the HTML documentation are relative so there is no location dependency.