Database start-up Vertica is set to release its column-oriented database optimized for business intelligence queries. Database start-up Vertica on Tuesday publicly launched its column-oriented ...

Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

Column-oriented database systems, also known as column-stores, have an important demand in the past few years. Basically, it is about storing each database column separately so that the attributes ...

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Calpont Corporation is a database software company that provides column-oriented technology optimized to handle analytics, business intelligence and read-intensive application deployments. Recently, ...

FRAMINGHAM (09/06/2007) – As a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading ...

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 ...

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Apache HBase describes itself as “the Hadoop database,” which can be a bit confusing, as Hadoop is typically understood to refer to the popular MapReduce processing framework. But Hadoop is really an ...