Database start-up Vertica is set to release its column-oriented database optimized for business intelligence queries. Database start-up Vertica on Tuesday publicly launched its column-oriented ...

Non-relational cloud databases such as Google's BigTable, Amazon's SimpleDB and Microsoft's SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) have emerged. But while these new data stores may well fill a niche in cloud ...

As a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1970s, Michael Stonebraker co-created the Ingres and Postgres technology that underlies many leading relational databases today: ...

Column-oriented database systems, also known as column-stores, have an important demand in the past few years. Basically, it is about storing each database column separately so that the attributes ...