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 ...

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 ...

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The enterprise world of SAP isn't just structured data: it's the fundamental infrastructure of countless international businesses. In business you follow the money to understand deal flow, and ...

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Please follow this link to view the full social media version of this news release on Teradata.com Unlike relational database management systems which only store data ...

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 ...

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 ...