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 ...

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 ...

Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, are a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized for transactional workloads. While ...