Create a database (if you want to use a different one than those already configured), and a schema that will contain the Tungsten data about the current replication position:

shell> vsql -Udbadmin -wsecret bigdata
Welcome to vsql, the Vertica Analytic Database v5.1.1-0 interactive terminal.

Type:  \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help with vsql commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

bigdata=> create schema tungsten_alpha;

The schema will be used only by Tungsten Replicator to store metadata about the replication process.

Locate the Vertica JDBC driver. This can be downloaded separately from the Vertica website. The driver will need to be copied into the Tungsten Replicator lib directory.

shell> cp vertica-jdbc-7.1.2-0.jar tungsten-replicator-6.1.25-6/tungsten-replicator/lib/

You need to create tables within Vertica according to the databases and tables that need to be replicated; the tables are not automatically created for you. From a Tungsten Replicator deployment directory, the ddlscan command can be used to identify the existing tables, and create table definitions for use within Vertica.

To use ddlscan, the template for Vertica must be specified, along with the user/password information to connect to the source database to collect the schema definitions. The tool should be run from the templates directory.

The tool will need to be executed twice, the first time generates the live table definitions:

shell> cd tungsten-replicator-6.1.25-6
shell> cd tungsten-replicator/samples/extensions/velocity/
shell> ddlscan -user tungsten -url 'jdbc:mysql:thin://host1:13306/access_log' -pass password \
    -template ddl-mysql-vertica.vm -db access_log
/*
SQL generated on Fri Sep 06 14:37:40 BST 2013 by ./ddlscan utility of Tungsten

url = jdbc:mysql:thin://host1:13306/access_log
user = tungsten
dbName = access_log
*/
CREATE SCHEMA access_log;

DROP TABLE access_log.access_log;

CREATE TABLE access_log.access_log
(
  id INT ,
  userid INT ,
  datetime INT ,
  session CHAR(30) ,
  operation CHAR(80) ,
  opdata CHAR(80)  ) ORDER BY id;
...

The output should be redirected to a file and then used to create tables within Vertica:

shell> ddlscan -user tungsten -url 'jdbc:mysql:thin://host1:13306/access_log' -pass password \
    -template ddl-mysql-vertica.vm -db access_log >access_log.ddl

The output of the command should be checked to ensure that the table definitions are correct.

The file can then be applied to Vertica:

shell> cat access_log.ddl | vsql -Udbadmin -wsecret bigdata

This generates the table definitions for live data. The process should be repeated to create the table definitions for the staging data by using te staging template:

shell> ddlscan -user tungsten -url 'jdbc:mysql:thin://host1:13306/access_log' -pass password \
    -template ddl-mysql-vertica-staging.vm -db access_log >access_log.ddl-staging

Then applied to Vertica:

shell> cat access_log.ddl-staging | vsql -Udbadmin -wsecret bigdata

The process should be repeated for each database that will be replicated.