If you want to know what’s what in Big Data analytics today, you’ve got to know the basics of NoSQL databases, and how appropriate NoSQL databases facilitate Big Data analytics. What are the most ...

In this special guest feature, Jamie Clark, Senior Developer at Dimensional Insight, discusses why columnar databases are the future of business intelligence as massive amounts of data continue to ...

The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, in real time and in unforeseen ways, is a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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A well-designed, well-tuned relational database has long been essential to a good database marketing system. However, over the past few years a different type of database, a columnar database, has ...