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Columnar databases
As the name implies, columnar databases are organized by column rather than row: that is, all instances of a single data element (say, Customer Name) are stored together so they can be accessed as a unit. This makes them particularly efficient at analytical queries, such as list selections, which often read a few data elements but need to see all [...]
TDWI Research Indicates Increasing Adoption of MPP Columnar Databases for Data Warehousing and Analytic Applications
SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)-- Jan 2009 Recent research from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) indicates an increasing adoption of columnar databases as the platform of choice for datawarehousing and analytic applications due to their ability to deliver fast query response, and efficiently compress and provide access to large amounts of [...]
