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

Wide column stores are also called “column families,” “columnar databases,” or “column-oriented DBMS.” How is a wide column store database different from a relational database?

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 ...

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.

The Amazon/Vertica column-oriented cloud database offers the usual cloud advantages: rapid deployment, scalability, redundancy and pay as you go. Vertica allows databases from 500GB to hundreds of ...

Oracle says the new In-Memory Option it unveiled today will allow its 12c database customers to run analytic workloads 100 times faster than they previously could. The secret sauce is a new ...

Relational databases are inefficient compared to the new breed of column-oriented databases, says Michael Stonebraker.