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 ...

There are more choices than ever in the data management market and, in the view of some industry observers, we now have an increasingly specialized market, providing a wide range of options to manage ...

Columnar, a startup founded by core Apache Arrow developers, launched today with $4 million to accelerate data connectivity using Arrow-based drivers. Bessemer Venture Partners led the company’s seed ...

Conventional wisdom holds that as a batch-oriented platform, Hadoop is not well suited for running high-performance analytics applications. This week, however, Actian unveiled the Actian Analytics ...

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 ...

In this special guest feature, Jamie Clark, Senior Developer at Dimensional Insight, discusses why columnar databases are the future of business intelligence as massive amounts of data continue to ...

When I listed 5 data management technologies you probably should know more about, two of them were data warehouse appliances and columnar DBMS. And that was before today’s announcement that Microsoft ...