Wide column store databases allow you to manage data that just won’t fit on one computer. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big ...

One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an application is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database to store the data. Conventional databases, meaning relational databases that ...

A relational database table is articulated on a fixed number of columns and each column has its own data type, such as strings of variable or fixed length, dates, numbers, Booleans and the like. JSON ...

But Vertica is a column store database, so that's just fine. Since data is stored column-wise, rather than row-wise, missing column values don't take up any space.

Designing an appropriate set of indexes can be one of the more troubling aspects of developing efficient relational database applications. Perhaps, the most important thing you can do to assure ...