The structured query language is a powerful tool for connecting to many database systems that store data in tables organized into rows and columns. It's often used on the backend of business ...

Columnar data storage can offer significant performance improvements over the way database tables are traditionally stored, but they aren’t always faster. Aleksandr Shavlyuga explores the power ...

To ameliorate the problem of scalability, Apache Cassandra, was created in 2008 as a free and open-source, distributed, wide column store (a NoSQL database that uses tables, rows, and columns ...

The performance of the full table scan is critical for the overall performance of column-store database systems such as the SAP HANA database. Compressing the underlying column data format is both ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

MS SQL Server - way to query all of the tables in a database for a given column name? mudboy Apr 18, 2006 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...