This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

Column-oriented database systems, also known as column-stores, have an important demand in the past few years. Basically, it is about storing each database column separately so that the attributes ...

There has been a significant amount of excitement and recent work on column-oriented database systems (“Column-stores”). These database systems have been shown to perform more than an order of ...