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

Column-oriented relational databases - which store data in columns rather than in rows - were developed in the mid-1990s as a way to improve query speed and reduce data storage and retrieval overhead ...

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ClickHouse, a distributed column-oriented analytic database management system provider, has announced the launch of ClickHouse Cloud. The company says its new cloud-based DBMS decouples storage and ...

SQream’s column-oriented database product — SQream DB — is a GPU-accelerated data warehouse capable of handling complex queries with features cherry-picked from relational database systems.

Column-oriented database systems are not new. Sybase has successfully sold its column-based IQ database for years as a high-performance business intelligence solution.

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In addition, every vendor of column-oriented databases — which are exquisitely well suited to data-intensive query processing — will soon either realign its go-to-market strategy around ...