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In this special guest feature, Jamie Clark, Senior Developer at Dimensional Insight, discusses why columnar databases are the future of business intelligence as massive amounts of data continue to ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Analytical workloads differ from transactional workloads in that most queries read a small subset of columns for very large numbers of rows. To optimize for these demands, most analytical databases ...

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A well-designed, well-tuned relational database has long been essential to a good database marketing system. However, over the past few years a different type of database, a columnar database, has ...

ClickHouse Inc., the developer of an open-source columnar database that can store petabytes of information, has closed a $350 million funding round. The company announced the Series C investment today ...