Wide-column databases are another schema-free NoSQL DBMS that can store very large numbers of columns of data, without a preschema. Column names and keys can be defined throughout the database.

ScyllaDB, the wide-column database used by Comcast, Samsung, and banking giant Santander, has released a new database service it claims improves scalability and lowers cost.… The company also ...

Apache Cassandra, originally developed at Facebook and later released as an open source project, is an example of a wide column store NoSQL database system. Finally, we have the graph database which ...

As for Cloud BigTable, this is Google’s fully managed NoSQL key value and wide-column database service that’s best suited for time-series, graph and “internet of things” workloads as it ...

Cloud BigTable is Google’s fully managed, scalable NoSQL wide-column database service.

Today, however, DataStax, the company behind Cassandra, a wide column database, announced its first-ever acquisition, bringing together the best of Cassandra and TitanDB (a graph database). The ...

While Cloud Datastore is targeted at up to a few terabytes of data, when you go higher than that, it's time to move on to HBase, Cassandra, or Cloud BigTable, the Google wide column database that ...

The role of the DBA is growing and becoming more complicated in the age of digital transformation. As the amount and type of information we store expands, DBAs must become versed in administering not ...

The addition of JSON support to the proprietary HBase-compatible wide-column database will also mean less shuffling of data in and out of Hadoop.