Columnar databases are surging with the NoSQL movement, but actually they play in both SQL and NoSQL camps. This white paper authored by William McKnight covers the fundamentals, then expands to ...

NoSQL databases like MongoDB or CouchDB generally compete with each other, but now a relational database is positioning itself as a NoSQL player. The PostgreSQL Project, which EnterpriseDB supports, ...

This is even more so in columnar JSON, such as that used by jSonar in its NoSQL Big Data Warehouse, SonarW. For example, in a row-based JSON representation you might have to traverse all documents in ...

Couchbase is also offering a free tier for Capella without any time limits to lower barriers to entry for developers. NoSQL document-oriented database provider Couchbase is adding columnar support to ...