diff --git a/airflow/hooks/__init__.py b/airflow/hooks/__init__.py
index 9bf5410affdae..af2a7a5747724 100644
--- a/airflow/hooks/__init__.py
+++ b/airflow/hooks/__init__.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     'dbapi_hook': ['DbApiHook'],
     'mssql_hook': ['MsSqlHook'],
     'oracle_hook': ['OracleHook'],
+    'vertica_hook': ['VerticaHook'],
 }
 
 _import_module_attrs(globals(), _hooks)
diff --git a/airflow/hooks/vertica_hook.py b/airflow/hooks/vertica_hook.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..45cd0d0e6f434
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airflow/hooks/vertica_hook.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+from vertica_python import connect
+
+from airflow.hooks.dbapi_hook import DbApiHook
+
+class VerticaHook(DbApiHook):
+    '''
+    Interact with Vertica.
+    '''
+
+    conn_name_attr = 'vertica_conn_id'
+    default_conn_name = 'vertica_default'
+    supports_autocommit = True
+
+    def get_conn(self):
+        """
+        Returns verticaql connection object
+        """
+        conn = self.get_connection(self.vertica_conn_id)
+        conn_config = {
+            "user": conn.login,
+            "password": conn.password,
+            "database": conn.schema,
+        }
+
+        conn_config["host"] = conn.host or 'localhost'
+        if not conn.port:
+            conn_config["port"] = 5433
+        else:
+            conn_config["port"] = int(conn.port)
+
+        conn = connect(**conn_config)
+        return conn
diff --git a/airflow/models.py b/airflow/models.py
index c2b86293459e6..eb2825d33ae18 100644
--- a/airflow/models.py
+++ b/airflow/models.py
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ def get_hook(self):
                 return hooks.MsSqlHook(mssql_conn_id=self.conn_id)
             elif self.conn_type == 'oracle':
                 return hooks.OracleHook(oracle_conn_id=self.conn_id)
+            elif self.conn_type == 'vertica':
+                return hooks.VerticaHook(vertica_conn_id=self.conn_id)
         except:
             return None
 
diff --git a/airflow/operators/__init__.py b/airflow/operators/__init__.py
index a6c810abf8deb..0f346c4c058a7 100644
--- a/airflow/operators/__init__.py
+++ b/airflow/operators/__init__.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
     'mysql_operator': ['MySqlOperator'],
     'sqlite_operator': ['SqliteOperator'],
     'mysql_to_hive': ['MySqlToHiveTransfer'],
+    'vertica_operator': ['VerticaOperator'],
+    'vertica_to_hive': ['VerticaToHiveTransfer'],
     'postgres_operator': ['PostgresOperator'],
     'sensors': [
         'SqlSensor',
diff --git a/airflow/operators/vertica_operator.py b/airflow/operators/vertica_operator.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fdce789116cfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airflow/operators/vertica_operator.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import logging
+
+from airflow.hooks import VerticaHook
+from airflow.models import BaseOperator
+from airflow.utils import apply_defaults
+
+
+class VerticaOperator(BaseOperator):
+    """
+    Executes sql code in a specific Vertica database
+
+    :param vertica_conn_id: reference to a specific Vertica database
+    :type vertica_conn_id: string
+    :param sql: the sql code to be executed
+    :type sql: Can receive a str representing a sql statement,
+        a list of str (sql statements), or reference to a template file.
+        Template reference are recognized by str ending in '.sql'
+    """
+
+    template_fields = ('sql',)
+    template_ext = ('.sql',)
+    ui_color = '#b4e0ff'
+
+    @apply_defaults
+    def __init__(self, sql, vertica_conn_id='vertica_default', *args, **kwargs):
+        super(VerticaOperator, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.vertica_conn_id = vertica_conn_id
+        self.sql = sql
+
+    def execute(self, context):
+        logging.info('Executing: ' + str(self.sql))
+        hook = VerticaHook(vertica_conn_id=self.vertica_conn_id)
+        hook.run(self.sql)
diff --git a/airflow/operators/vertica_to_hive.py b/airflow/operators/vertica_to_hive.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..afc9d18b0c1f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airflow/operators/vertica_to_hive.py
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+from builtins import chr
+from collections import OrderedDict
+import unicodecsv as csv
+import logging
+from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
+
+from airflow.hooks import HiveCliHook, VerticaHook
+from airflow.models import BaseOperator
+from airflow.utils import apply_defaults
+
+class VerticaToHiveTransfer(BaseOperator):
+    """
+    Moves data from Vertia to Hive. The operator runs
+    your query against Vertia, stores the file locally
+    before loading it into a Hive table. If the ``create`` or
+    ``recreate`` arguments are set to ``True``,
+    a ``CREATE TABLE`` and ``DROP TABLE`` statements are generated.
+    Hive data types are inferred from the cursor's metadata.
+    Note that the table generated in Hive uses ``STORED AS textfile``
+    which isn't the most efficient serialization format. If a
+    large amount of data is loaded and/or if the table gets
+    queried considerably, you may want to use this operator only to
+    stage the data into a temporary table before loading it into its
+    final destination using a ``HiveOperator``.
+    :param sql: SQL query to execute against the Vertia database
+    :type sql: str
+    :param hive_table: target Hive table, use dot notation to target a
+    specific database
+    :type hive_table: str
+    :param create: whether to create the table if it doesn't exist
+    :type create: bool
+    :param recreate: whether to drop and recreate the table at every execution
+    :type recreate: bool
+    :param partition: target partition as a dict of partition columns and values
+    :type partition: dict
+    :param delimiter: field delimiter in the file
+    :type delimiter: str
+    :param vertica_conn_id: source Vertica connection
+    :type vertica_conn_id: str
+    :param hive_conn_id: destination hive connection
+    :type hive_conn_id: str
+    """
+
+    template_fields = ('sql', 'partition', 'hive_table')
+    template_ext = ('.sql',)
+    ui_color = '#b4e0ff'
+
+    @apply_defaults
+    def __init__(
+            self,
+            sql,
+            hive_table,
+            create=True,
+            recreate=False,
+            partition=None,
+            delimiter=chr(1),
+            vertica_conn_id='vertica_default',
+            hive_cli_conn_id='hive_cli_default',
+            *args, **kwargs):
+        super(VerticaToHiveTransfer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.sql = sql
+        self.hive_table = hive_table
+        self.partition = partition
+        self.create = create
+        self.recreate = recreate
+        self.delimiter = str(delimiter)
+        self.vertica_conn_id = vertica_conn_id
+        self.hive_cli_conn_id = hive_cli_conn_id
+        self.partition = partition or {}
+
+    @classmethod
+    def type_map(cls, vertica_type):
+        # vertica-python datatype.py donot provied the full type mapping access.
+        # Manual hack. Reference: https://github.com/uber/vertica-python/blob/master/vertica_python/vertica/column.py
+        d = {
+            5: 'BOOLEAN',
+            6: 'INT',
+            7: 'FLOAT',
+            8: 'STRING',
+            9: 'STRING',
+            16: 'FLOAT',
+        }
+        return d[vertica_type] if vertica_type in d else 'STRING'
+
+    def execute(self, context):
+        hive = HiveCliHook(hive_cli_conn_id=self.hive_cli_conn_id)
+        vertica = VerticaHook(vertica_conn_id=self.vertica_conn_id)
+
+        logging.info("Dumping Vertica query results to local file")
+        conn = vertica.get_conn()
+        cursor = conn.cursor()
+        cursor.execute(self.sql)
+        with NamedTemporaryFile("w") as f:
+            csv_writer = csv.writer(f, delimiter=self.delimiter, encoding='utf-8')
+            field_dict = OrderedDict()
+            col_count = 0
+            for field in cursor.description:
+                col_count += 1
+                col_position = "Column{position}".format(position=col_count)
+                field_dict[col_position if field[0] == '' else field[0]] = self.type_map(field[1])
+            csv_writer.writerows(cursor.iterate())
+            f.flush()
+            cursor.close()
+            conn.close()
+            logging.info("Loading file into Hive")
+            hive.load_file(
+                f.name,
+                self.hive_table,
+                field_dict=field_dict,
+                create=self.create,
+                partition=self.partition,
+                delimiter=self.delimiter,
+                recreate=self.recreate)
diff --git a/airflow/utils.py b/airflow/utils.py
index 391039cc62c69..4bfb5ed09af63 100644
--- a/airflow/utils.py
+++ b/airflow/utils.py
@@ -186,6 +186,14 @@ def initdb():
                 host='localhost', port=1433))
         session.commit()
 
+    conn = session.query(C).filter(C.conn_id == 'vertica_default').first()
+    if not conn:
+        session.add(
+            models.Connection(
+                conn_id='vertica_default', conn_type='vertica',
+                host='localhost', port=5433))
+        session.commit()
+
     # Known event types
     KET = models.KnownEventType
     if not session.query(KET).filter(KET.know_event_type == 'Holiday').first():
diff --git a/airflow/www/app.py b/airflow/www/app.py
index 0aa9ab480ff06..a27080da49296 100644
--- a/airflow/www/app.py
+++ b/airflow/www/app.py
@@ -1728,6 +1728,7 @@ class ConnectionModelView(wwwutils.SuperUserMixin, AirflowModelView):
             ('mysql', 'MySQL',),
             ('postgres', 'Postgres',),
             ('oracle', 'Oracle',),
+            ('vertica', 'Vertica',),
             ('presto', 'Presto',),
             ('s3', 'S3',),
             ('samba', 'Samba',),
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index c8c1025f20ed9..9fbcf42e81af9 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Here's the list of the subpackages and what they enable:
 |  mssql      |  ``pip install airflow[mssql]``    | Microsoft SQL operators and hook,              |
 |             |                                    | support as an Airflow backend                  |
 +-------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+|  vertica    |  ``pip install airflow[vertica]``  | Vertica hook                                   |
+|             |                                    | support as an Airflow backend                  |
++-------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
 |  slack      | ``pip install airflow[slack]``     | ``SlackAPIPostOperator``                       |
 +-------------+------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
 |  all        | ``pip install airflow[all]``       | All Airflow features known to man              |
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0a5cc4e38d00a..87c29c395db98 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@
 slack = ['slackclient>=0.15']
 crypto = ['cryptography>=0.9.3']
 oracle = ['cx_Oracle>=5.1.2']
+vertica = ['vertica-python>=0.5.1']
 
-all_dbs = postgres + mysql + hive + mssql + hdfs
+all_dbs = postgres + mysql + hive + mssql + hdfs + vertica
 devel = all_dbs + doc + samba + s3 + ['nose'] + slack + crypto + oracle
 
 setup(
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@
         'slack': slack,
         'crypto': crypto,
         'oracle': oracle,
+        'vertica': vertica,
     },
     author='Maxime Beauchemin',
     author_email='maximebeauchemin@gmail.com',