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 ...

Listening in to Dr. Michael Stonebraker decry "elephants" and extol the virtues of column-store databases in general and Vertica in particular, it's becoming clear that a totally new data storage ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...

Data warehousing specialist Teradata announced Thursday a battery of upgrades that promise to blur boundaries between database architectures and applications. The Teradata 14 database, due in December ...

SAP IQ is a relational column-oriented database management system that can be used to implement highly scalable data warehouses. The high-performance column store technology of SAP IQ can deliver high ...

Organizations need databases that can meet increasing demands for data storage and accommodate data variety efficiently. Column-oriented databases fit this description. Columnar databases are a type ...

The performance of the full table scan is critical for the overall performance of column-store database systems such as the SAP HANA database. Compressing the underlying column data format is both an ...