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 ...

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 ...

Couchbase Inc. is adding some powerful new capabilities to its flagship database-as-a-service offering, paving the way for developers to build more intelligent and adaptive applications that leverage ...

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 ...

Columnar database technology burst on the data warehouse scene just a couple years ago with promises of faster query speeds on vast amounts of data. They delivered on that promise, but at a cost that ...

The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...

The FDAP stack brings enhanced data processing capabilities to large volumes of data. Apache Arrow acts as a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, facilitating efficient data ...

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