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 ...

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 ...

Please follow this link to view the full social media version of this news release on Teradata.com Unlike relational database management systems which only store data ...

ClickHouse Inc., the developer of an open-source columnar database that can store petabytes of information, has closed a $350 million funding round. The company announced the Series C investment today ...

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 ...

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.

If you've ever entered a long list of business data and realized you need this information across a row instead of down a column, you can take advantage of Excel 2007's Transpose feature to fix the ...