Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

Columnar databases are surging with the NoSQL movement, but actually they play in both SQL and NoSQL camps. This white paper authored by William McKnight covers the fundamentals, then expands 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 ...

Column Families: These are the NoSQL databases that most resemble conventional relational databases. They store structured data in individual, columns (rather than tables).

A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for ...