This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

To succeed today, organizations need to become analytics-focused enterprises. To support that effort, the spectrum of database choices has never been larger, providing an array of options to manage ...

Analytical workloads differ from transactional workloads in that most queries read a small subset of columns for very large numbers of rows. To optimize for these demands, most analytical databases ...

ClickHouse Inc., the developer of an open-source columnar database that can store petabytes of information, has closed a $350 million funding round. The company announced the Series C investment today ...

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The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and ...

A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for ...

One of the major challenges that IT organizations have with all-things business intelligence is how long it takes to actually set up applications. SAP, however, wants to take this issue off the table ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recent research from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) indicates an increasing adoption of columnar databases as the platform of choice for data warehousing and ...