Hey,
This has been bugging me... Does anyone know what the "K" stands for in the term "K-Safe"?
What is the "K" short for in "K-Safe"?
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What is the "K" short for in "K-Safe"?
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Re: What is "K" short for?
Hi Julie,
Vertica uses K because it is the first letter of my last name
Ha Hah!
Actually, here's why I think they used K:
A Vertica database is said to be K-safe if any node can fail at any given time without causing the database to shut down. When I first started working with Vertica I wondered why they didn't use N-Safe, where the N can be derived from the word Node. I found out later that as a matter of convention in mathematics, K is used to represent a constant scaling value. What happens when we add nodes to a Vertica cluster? We are "scaling" it horizontally... hence the use of K.
I'm not sure about that, though.
Anyone else have a guess?
Vertica uses K because it is the first letter of my last name
Ha Hah!Actually, here's why I think they used K:
A Vertica database is said to be K-safe if any node can fail at any given time without causing the database to shut down. When I first started working with Vertica I wondered why they didn't use N-Safe, where the N can be derived from the word Node. I found out later that as a matter of convention in mathematics, K is used to represent a constant scaling value. What happens when we add nodes to a Vertica cluster? We are "scaling" it horizontally... hence the use of K.
I'm not sure about that, though.
Anyone else have a guess?
Jim Knicely
Note: I work for Vertica. My views, opinions, and thoughts expressed here do not represent those of my employer.
Note: I work for Vertica. My views, opinions, and thoughts expressed here do not represent those of my employer.