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, ...

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 ...

“The new capabilities further emphasize the benefits of Splice Machine's hybrid architecture,” said Monte Zweben, co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine. “For modern applications that need to combine ...

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.

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

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 ...

At the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference this week, Cloudera announced that it has begun beta testing a columnar data store, dubbed Kudu, that will run natively on top of Hadoop, while providing ...

The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, are a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized for transactional workloads. While ...