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 ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...

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 ...

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 relational databases today: ...

Analytic databases are the principal engines driving business intelligence, delivering operational data into reports, dashboards and ad-hoc queries. Analytic databases are the principal engines ...

Infobright on Monday unwrapped a new version of its open source data warehouse for analytics — and shared its lofty expectations for the product. “What MySQL did for databases, letting the low end of ...