As organizations consider migrating structured data sets to the cloud, data practitioners must decide how those data sets will be stored. Naïve approaches will transfer the data sets in their raw ...

A columnar database is a specialized type of database management system (DBMS) designed to store, manage, and retrieve data in a column-wise fashion, as opposed to the traditional row-based storage ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

Will Apache Parquet be the "next big thing" in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem? It was only 14 months ago that the Apache Spark project was graduated to a top-level project by Hadoop steward Apache ...

Splice Machine, provider of the open-source SQL RDBMS powered by Apache Hadoop® and Apache Spark, today announced at AWS re:Invent 2016 the release of version 2.5 of its industry-leading data platform ...

The database revolution happened a few years back, when NoSQL options stormed the world. Today, however, a second wave of innovation in data storage has been unleashed in the form of Apache Arrow.