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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 ...

A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. There are a lot of different ways to accomplish this, and now, there is yet another — and ...

Things are simply not the way your grandfather’s data warehouse and dependent data marts were anymore; they are now more layered and complex. With the rise of big data approaches and the new suite of ...