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 ...

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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 ...

A well-designed, well-tuned relational database has long been essential to a good database marketing system. However, over the past few years a different type of database, a columnar database, has ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 3, 2024 — Couchbase, Inc. today officially launched Capella Columnar on AWS, which helps organizations streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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