Johnson explained that MariaDB will now ship with a plug-in that, when activated, causes the tables in a database to be stored in column store format as well as conventional row store format.

Ever since the revelation that not all data can be neatly stored in rows and columns, it seems that barely a day goes by without the emergence of yet another new database with its own query engine ...

Apache Parquet, on the other hand, is a columnar storage file format that offers efficient data compression and encoding schemes. Its design is optimized for complex nested data structures and is ...

Spanner’s new columnar engine combines transaction and analytical processing without increasing overhead by using columnar storage: storing data in a columnar format alongside the existing row ...

Distributed data Columnar storage Parallel processing Data adapters Connectors (Spark & Kafka) Open source Standard SQL The platform can help with a variety of use cases and sectors such as the ...

The project originated in the fall of 2012 when Twitter and Cloudera combined their columnar format development efforts, resulting in a 1.0 release in July 2013. Less than a year later, having ...

As the ASF yesterday explained in a blog post: Apache Parquet is an open source columnar storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, built to work across programming languages and much more: ...