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 ...

The latest open source Big Data project to be advanced to top-level status by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is Kudu, a "columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem designed to ...

MariaDB Corporation, the commercial entity behind the MariaDB open source relational database that began life as a "fork" of MySQL, is today announcing a new version of its platform. The release, ...

Google has updated its managed database service — Spanner — with a new columnar engine to help enterprises run complex analytical queries on real-time transactional data for better decision-making.

“The new capabilities further emphasize the benefits of Splice Machine's hybrid architecture,” said Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine. “For modern applications that need to combine ...

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 ...

Please follow this link to view the full social media version of this news release on Teradata.com Unlike relational database management systems which only store data ...

Couchbase is also offering a free tier for Capella without any time limits to lower barriers to entry for developers. NoSQL document-oriented database provider Couchbase is adding columnar support to ...